On January 15, Intelligence Bureau (IB) intercepted of a Bangladeshi mobile number with coded phrase, — “doctor medicine lekar jayega” —on a telecom gateway, reports The Times of India. The gateway alerted Indian authorities of the call.
According to the reports, all state Police chiefs were sent an IB alert on January 18, which says that Bangladesh-based Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT) is planning to carry out terror strikes at 23 locations across India, including Gurdaspur and Pathankot.
“The group is planning bomb and suicide attacks on January 23,” the alert reads, according to the report. “In view of this, the field staff must be sensitized to take all necessary preventive and precautionary measures including review and strengthening of security of Army, Air Force, BSF and other vital installations.”
It adds that this time malls, markets and educational institutes could be on the group’s radar. According to the alert, HuT, which has a significant presence in Pakistan and Bangladesh, is planning these strikes with assistance from Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
Meanwhile, Osman Bakhach, the Director of Central Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir (based in Lebonon) rejected the claims in the report. In tweets directed to News World India, he said that Hizb ut-Tahrir is a peaceful organisation and never uses violence. They also denied any association with Indian Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad.
Hizb ut-Tahrir’s wikipedia page describes them as a radical, international, pan-Islamic political organisation, which describes its “ideology as Islam”, and its aim as the re-establishment of “the Islamic Khilafah (Caliphate)” or Islamic state.
Source: Ittefaq
