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India and Pakistan suffer from increase in terrorist attacks
In Pakistan today at least four gunmen were holding 10 to 15 people hostage inside army headquarters in Rawalpindi Saturday after an attack left at least 10 people dead, a top military spokesman said.
A car bomb in Khyber market in northwestern Peshawar city yesterday killed 50 people. A suicide bomb at the United Nations World Food Program headquarters in Islamabad on Oct. 5 killed five people.
The militants are in disarray and taking revenge after the Swat operation and the death of Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in a U.S. drone attack in August, interior minister Mr Malik has said.
Interior Minister Mr Malik yesterday said the government will decide soon on starting operations in Waziristan, a stronghold of the militants.
INDIA
The military’s successful 10-week offensive in northwest Swat valley and the government’s plans for similar operations in South and North Waziristan districts has led to an increase in terrorist attacks. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said terrorism is the greatest national security threat facing the nation in 2009.
Maoist rebels killed 17 policemen in the western Indian state of Maharashtra Thursday, the latest attack in a rising insurgency that the Indian government is seeking to counter with new measures.
Up to 200 Naxalites, as they are known, ambushed a police patrol in a forest, sparking a three-hour gun battle, according to a police spokesman in the Gadchiroli district.
This year has seen an increase in the Maoist rebellion in India.
On Tuesday, in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, authorities found the beheaded body of a police inspector who was kidnapped by the Naxalites in September.
In 2009, 765 people have died in the insurgency, the highest number since the rebellion's resurgence in 2002, according to South Asia Terrorism Portal, a New Delhi-based research group.
About 200 districts in 16 Indian states, mostly in the country's center and the south, have been affected by Naxalism, which received its name from the village of Naxalbari in West Bengal where the insurgency began in 1967.
A spokesman for India's ministry of home affairs said the federal government on Thursday sent additional paramilitary forces to Gadchiroli where the latest Naxal attacks took place.
Since 2002, the emergence of individuals and groups inspired by al Qaeda rhetoric but sometimes lacking the capabilities to launch a spectacular, large-scale attack poses a growing homeland challenge in India.
The threat from homegrown violent extremists remains a top terrorism concern for India.
While the intent and capability of homegrown extremists varies widely, India's extremist networks or groups, have taken steps to move from violent rhetoric to action
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