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CSB News USA · 10:17 AM

In the days leading up to this year's Independence Day, security agencies moved simultaneously across fourteen states and detained 253 people allegedly being recruited for terror attacks. On the surface, this reads like a routine counter-terrorism success story: a plot conceived, a plot foiled, a nation kept safe

Wrriten by Rashi Randev In the days leading up to this year's Independence Day, security agencies moved simultaneously across fourteen states and detained 253 people allegedly being recruited for terror attacks. On the surface, this reads like a routine counter-terrorism success story: a plot conceived, a plot foiled, a nation kept safe. But the scale and shape of the operation attributed to the Shahzad Bhatti network deserve a closer look, because they suggest something more unsettling than a single module being dismantled. They suggest that the underlying architecture of Pakistan-sponsored terrorism in India is being rebuilt from the ground up. For three decades, the template was familiar enough to be almost predictable. Organisations such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed operated through recognisable stages: ideological indoctrination, dedicated training camps, cross-border infiltration, and sleeper cells awaiting activation. It was a hierarchical model, and hierarchy, for all its operational discipline, carried an inherent vulnerability. Commanders could be identified. Financial trails could be traced. Communication networks could be penetrated and, eventually, unravelled. Indian security agencies…

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