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How private security guards can fight terror ?

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Source: Rediff.com Interesting links: http://www.capsi.in/ Image: Private security personnel check visitors to an information technology company on the outskirts of Hyderabad. Image: A private security guard walks past parked taxis at the city airport in Mumbai. Image: A private security officer uses a webcam to capture the photograph of a visitor. Image: Security guards form a cordon outside a hotel in Mumbai. Image: A private security guard checks patrons outside a cinema hall. How private security guards can fight terror ? October 17, 2008 P rivate security agencies under the aegis of the Central Association for Private Security Industry met Home Minister Shivraj Patil in Bangalore recently and offered their services to help combat terror. Private security personnel say they could help in the fight against terrorism. Vishwanath Katti , chairman of the Central Association for Private Security Industry (Karnataka chapter) and the managing director of Guardwell Detective

Kanpur: 7 injured in crude bomb blast

Seven people, including three children, were injured in an crude bomb explosion in Colonelganj area of Kanpur on Tuesday evening, the police said. A bomb wrapped in a polythene bag and kept on a bicycle went off at 1830 hours, Senior Superintendent of Police Hari Ram Sharma said. The explosion took place near a liquor vendor, he said. Seven people, three of them children, were injured in the blast, the SSP said. Uttar Pradesh [ Images ] Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Brij Lal said it was not a terror attack. The severely injured were carried away to hospitals by locals and police. The injured were identified as Krishna (5), Ravi (5), Mansi (9), Shanti Devi (65), Jeevan Lal Sonker (62), Tula Ram (60), Rani (65) and Twinkle Sonker (8). Ajay Sonker, an eyewitness said, there was a deafening sound and he saw mangled parts of a bicycle lying on the road. District magistrate Anil Kumar Sagar said it was a low intensity blast. Panic gripped the area soon after the blast

Terrorist attacks damage Pakistan Buddha

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The damaged buddha statue. Thursday, October 4, 2007 The UNESCO World Heritage Centre was informed of two attacks on an ancient rock carving of a seated Buddha located near Janabad in north-west Pakistan, a region known for its ancient Buddhist heritage and archaeological sites. According to numerous reports, suspected pro-Taliban militants carried out two attacks on the rock in early and late September, the second attack leaving the 7-metre high statue, dating from the seventh century AD, partly damaged. This act of destruction is reminiscent to the attack which destroyed the giant Buddhas in Afghanistan in 2001. The Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley were inscribed simultaneously on the World Heritage List and the List of World Heritage in Danger in 2003 in efforts to p

So they are terrorists now? By Dr Shabir Choudhry

Source: pakistan christian post When a head of state makes a statement it is regarded as an official policy of the country; and now it is official that Kashmiri struggle is 'terrorism' and all those associated with it, including leaders of APHC are 'terrorists', claims President of Islamic republic of Pakistan, Asif Zardari. It is different matter that Pakistani establishment has hitherto projected leaders of the APHC as 'holy cows’, which must not be criticised or opposed; if anything they must be respected and followed. Asif Zardari might have had his reasons and compulsions when giving this very bold interview to very prestigious newspaper Wall Street Journal. But compulsions and requirements of powerful military and ISI, which is known as state within state, could be different from that of Asif Zardari; and it remains to be seen if they will accept this doctrine or will continue their old policies of supporting, training and promoting 'jihad' and militan

Terrorism and India ::Arun Jaitley

Lalit Doshi Memorial Lecture Terrorism and India Arun Jaitley August 2, 2002 source: hvk Mrs. Doshi, Mr. Arun Bongirwar, Mr. Bharat Doshi, Mr. Jayant Kawale, ladies and gentlemen. I am extremely grateful to the Lalit Doshi Memorial Trust for having invited me to deliver the 2002 Lalit Doshi Memorial Lecture. I have been asked to speak on Terrorism and India, a subject on which, in the last one decade a lot has been written and spoken about. But, when the debate goes on and on, one of the impressions which is formed by an average reader or an ordinary citizen, is one of great frustration. Why is it that we are not able to contain this menace? At times some of us even do not aptly realize what the major dimensions and consequences of this issue have been. I recollect on 9/11 when the World Trade Center in New York was attacked and the Pentagon was partly damaged, more than 3000 lives were lost. In his first address to the World, the President of the United States started off by sayin

Anti-terrorism laws in India & The need of POTA

Siddharth - Law student Source: legal services In the new millennium, we face the very real and increasing prospect that regional aggressor, third-rate armies, terrorist groups and even religious cults will seek to wield disproportionate power by acquiring and using weapons of mass destructions - Secretary Of Defense William Cohen Of U.S.A. Introduction First in Varanasi then in Delhi then in Mumbai local trains and I do not think there is even a need to mention the continuing terrorist's barbaric activities in Kashmir. The bomb blasts have outraged every patriotic Indian. No civilized nation can allow this kind of barbaric inhumanity to be partly or fully supported or sponsored by any neighbor or domestic