India's most wanted....

By Explorer - June 25, 2008

From: www.rediff.com

May 13 was an important day in India's fight against terror. Nine low-intensity blasts went off in the tourist city of Jaipur, killing 62 people. Places of worship and crowded areas were targeted. It was the day when India changed the questions it usually asks after a terrorist attack. No more why, how or who. From now on, it will only be 'when and where next?'

The nature of terrorism has changed over the past three decades. Concentrated in the Valley for the better part of the 1980s, it moved to big cities -- particularly Mumbai in the 1990s. Since the turn of the millennium, it began trickling down to the smaller cities.

As India searches for a way to combat this wave of terror -- which agencies believe is being orchestrated by the Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence -- here is a look at the country's top ten most wanted men. The 10 names, by itself, neatly define terrorism in India: Some outfits born from India's bloodiest phase of violence before the Kashmir Valley became a hotbed in the 1980s -- the Khalistan movement.

Intelligence agencies say they are gaining capability to strike in India. Also a part of this list are past masters of all things crime and anti-national: the Mumbai mafia. These may seem like spent forces, but they are very much active and help the ISI in many ways, the intelligence agencies say.

Rounding off the list of India's most wanted are the men of the moment: the face of terror in India as we know it today and a faceless man, a man who for all you know is now plotting the answer to those two questions: 'When and where next'.

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