Qaeda eyes Hyderabad as base, terrorist outfit plans a huge push to create an Islamist state in India
Hyderabad is suspected to be the nerve centre of militant outfit Al Qaeda's plans to launch massive activities to declare an Islamist state in India. Close to 250 youth from the city have already been explained the long-drawn strategy to spread the message of jihad and five to six sleeper cells have been put in place to attract more youth from here, sources said. As per the counter-intelligence agencies' reports, a clutch of allied outfits including Indian Mujahideen (IM) and Lashkar e Taiba (LeT), have already begun operations in this direction. To combat this, the Union Home Ministry has all the counter-intelligence agencies including Intelligence Bureau (IB) and National Investigation Agency (NIA) forming an umbrella force. At a meeting chaired by Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan in Raj Bhawan in Hyderabad on Friday, it was decided to deal with the situation on a priority basis. Senior officials from the NIA, IB, Telangana DGP Anurag Sharma, Hyderabad police commissioner M. Mahend