Attacks

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh): Holding the BSP government in UP responsible for the riots in Bareilly, newly-appointed BJP vice-president Vijay Katiyar today alleged it proved "a complete failure" in controlling the disturbances despite curfew being imposed in the town.

Bangladesh: Bangladesh is in media once again for the wrong reason. The poverty stricken South Asian country has witnessed the killing of six tribal people in Chittagong Hill tracts during the third week of February. Authentic sources confirmed that the Bangladesh armed forces had also burnt down a Buddhist temple in the locality.

Gangasagar burns again. Muslims demolished a Hindu club, looted all its articles and sports instruments, destroyed a dozen Hindu shops, looted all goods, the police remained merely meek spectator and strangely detained 16 Hindus whose shops have been looted.

Here is the list of Islamic terror attacks in the World for the past two months of January 2010 and December 2009.

Peshawar (Pakistan): Two Sikhs who were kidnapped over a month back have been beheaded by the Pakistani Taliban in the country's restive tribal belt in a brutal act by the militants.

Maldives on Sunday said some youths from the country are being recruited by militant outfits based in Pakistan and Afghanistan to wage 'jihad' and sought India's cooperation in preventing "any passage" for these people through the country.

Hafiz Abdur Rahman Makki, leader of terror outfit amalgam Jamaat-ul-Dawah, is emerging as a new face of terror in the country for his hate India speech in which he had mentioned about attacks on Indian cities, including Pune.

Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, accused of masterminding the Mumbai attacks, on Friday said the only solution to problems between India and Pakistan is the “liberation of Jammu and Kashmir”, failing which radical groups would resort to the “option of jehad”.

Vandals threw stones at a Sikh temple, adding to religious tensions over a string of attacks on churches in Muslim-dominated Malaysia.

Religious violence in Malaysia escalated on Sunday after three more churches were attacked in an unprecedented wave of assaults on Christian houses of worship.

Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia): Three Christian churches were attacked with firebombs Friday as tensions rose in a dispute over whether Christians could use the word “Allah” in this largely Muslim nation.

A Taliban plot to target a flag-hoisting ceremony at the Wagah land border with India was foiled with the arrest of 10 people, including a top militant commander, Pakistani security agencies claimed on Friday.

At the late hours of 16th December, 2009 some unknown miscreants (suspected to be Islamic activists) entered the 33 year old Kali temple of Kankra village of Kachua Panchayet and desecrated the Temple and Idol of Kali Mata.

USA: Al Qaeda has reportedly claimed responsibility for the failed attack on a US airliner on Christmas Day, saying the attempt to blow up the plane was in retaliation for Washington's role in helping the Yemeni government combat militants in the country.

A Muslim male passenger on an international flight bound for Detroit Friday tried to blow up the plane with an explosive device in an incident that the White House is labeling an attempted act of terrorism.