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On January 15, 2010, the US Department of Defense complied with a court order and published a list of Captives held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility that included the name Hajj Abdul Majid Khan.
On January 15, 2010, the Department of Defense published a list of Detainees held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility that included the name Maulawi Qabil.
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The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), intelligence agency of Pakistan has been involved in running military intelligence programs in India, with one of the subsections of its Joint Intelligence Bureau (JIB) department devoted to perform various operations in India. The Joint Signal Intelligence Bureau (JSIB) department has also been involved in providing communications support to Pakistani agents operating in regions of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir of India. The Joint Intelligence North section of the Joint Counter-Intelligence Bureau (JCIB) wing deals particularly with India. In the 1950s the ISI's Covert Action Division was alleged for supplied arms to insurgents in Northeast India.
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A man named Dilshad Ahmad, an alleged leader of the proscribed Pakistani terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, was “arrested in Iraq by British forces, and then given over to the US for interrogation”...
- ↑ "Lashkar-e-Toiba: 'Army of the Pure'". South Asia Terrorism Portal. Archived from the original on 2010-01-27.
Arrests made during March–April 2004 near Baghdad brought to light links between the LeT and Islamist groups fighting the United States military in Iraq. In March - and possibly even earlier - United States forces detained Pakistani national Dilshad Ahmad and four others in Baghdad. Ahmad, a long-time Lashkar operative from the Bahawalpur area of the province of Punjab in Pakistan, had played a key role in the Lashkar's trans-Line of Control (LoC) operations, serving between 1997 and 2001 as the organisation's commander for the forward camps from where infiltrating groups of terrorists are launched into Jammu and Kashmir with Pakistani military support. Ahmad is believed to have made at least six secret visits to Lashkar groups operating in J&K during this period.
- ↑ Kaushik Kapisthalam (2004-07-14). "Pakistan faces its jihadi demons in Iraq". Asia Times. Archived from the original on 2010-01-27.
In April, Indian journalist Praveen Swami, who has long experience in reporting on terrorism, defense and security matters, broke a story in Outlook about a leading LeT ringleader named Dilshad Ahmad being arrested in Iraq by British forces, and then given over to the US for interrogation. A few other people were arrested with Ahmad, who went under several aliases, including Danish Ahmad and Abdul Rehman al-Dakhil.
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