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  1. CHANDIGARH: Punjab police are set to increase the firepower by placing an order for 3,350 AK-47 assault rifles - a weapon much favoured by the force during the height of militancy in the state. This shopping for arms comes in the wake of Union home minister Sushil Shinde's revelations in June about attempts by Pakistan to revive Sikh militancy in Punjab. The AK-47 assault rifles, each of which can fire up to 20 rounds per minute, will set back the state - reeling under a fiscal crisis - by Rs 12.82 crore. The order was placed last month before the Centre, a senior official with the Punjab home affairs department told TOI. The lethal AK-47, commonly known as Kalashnikov, is a selective-fire with a gas-operated 7.62x39mm cartridge. These weapons, that are capable of shooting 3-5 inch groups at 100 yards, will be made available to the cops from the special security group (SSG) of Punjab Police. The SSG, in 2010, was provided with more sophisticated weapons such as MP-9, X-95 and SG553. ""However, we felt that the requirement is not for the sophisticated weapons anymore but for the power that simply shoots the target dead with sheer raw power,"" the official said. ""We have now gone back to the original plan of 1990s when there only AK-47s"" he pointed out. Punjab Police had got its first batch of 1,021 AK-47s in 1991 during the peak of terrorism. This new plan to fortify a Punjab policeman with these assault weapons also comes at a time when the arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba member Abdul Karim Tunda has made confessions about Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) planning terror strikes in India. At present, there are already 9,500 Kalashnikovs for the Punjab cops in the border area. According to the plan, the existing carbines and .303 rifles will soon be phased out. A part of this plan also mentions increasing the stock of non-lethal weapons that will be used by Anti-riot police (ARP) wing of Punjab POlice. In line with this, 557 guns of 12 bore pump action with non-lethal ammunition too have been ordered at a cost of Rs 2.86 crore. Besides, for the regular personal armour, an order of 1113 .32 revolvers worth Rs 7.03 was also included in the list. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Punjab-orders-3350-AK-47-assault-rifles-to-counter-militants/articleshow/22101734.cms
  2. CHANDIGARH: Arrested Dawood aide and self-styled Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Abdul Karim Tunda will be quizzed by a team of Punjab police in connection with his role in Shingar cinema blasts in Ludhiana that had claimed six lives and left 37 injured in 2007. The LeT terrorist, in 1990, had allegedly launched an outfit Khalistan Kashmir International, which had trained and helped another Sikh terrorist group, Babbar Khalsa International, to execute terror strikes in Punjab for more than a decade. The official request for a joint interrogation was placed by the state's intelligence wing before Delhi police special cell on Monday. "We are maintaining contacts with Delhi police special cell on Tunda. We are trying to establish his role in Sikh militancy. Once that is done, we will use the production warrant to bring him to a local court here," additional director general of police (ADGP), intelligence, Hardeep Singh Dhillon told TOI. The team may comprise Ludhiana commissioner P S Gill, IG (counter intelligence) Ananya Gautam and a local intelligence bureau member. Even though his name was not included in any of the FIRs registered by Punjab police in any terrorist activities in the state, the Delhi police said they have clinching evidence for Tunda's role in Sikh insurgency. "We have inputs from Central intelligence agencies on his involvement in at least Shingar cinema blast," S N Srivastava, Delhi police special commissioner (special cell) told TOI. Four BKI men - Gurpreet alias Khalsa, Palwinder Singh, Sandeep Singh alias Harry and Ravinder alias Rinku - were arrested for their role in Shingar blasts. The police had recovered 5kg of RDX, 3 detonators and two pistols from the suspected BKI terrorists. Tunda is said to have stayed several times in Jalandhar between 1990 and 1998. The banned terrorist organisation Khalistan Kashmir International was formed by him on May 3, 1990 following a meeting with BKI chief Wadhawa Singh and Lahbir Singh Rode, the head of the International Sikh Students Federation, in Lahore, Punjab police said. According to police, when BKI chief Wadhawa Singh wanted to dispatch explosives to India through Bangladesh in 2010, he had contacted Tunda for it. In return, Tunda would distribute fake Indian currency notes in India though Wadhawa's network. Wadhawa's attempt to send explosives was however foiled after Tunda's aides were arrested in Bangladesh four days before they were to execute the plan. Both Punjab and Delhi police are hopeful his questioning will help the Punjab government identify the working module of some terrorist outfits in the state. TUNDA'S ROLE IN SONIPAT BLAST The Haryana police are also planning to bring Tunda to Sonipat in connection with two bomb blasts that rocked the state in December 1996. Tunda has been marked as a proclaimed offender in the Sonipat police records after two members of his gang were held for planting a bomb at Baba Cinema and Gulshan Sweets at Geeta Chowk in Sonipat 17 years ago. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Tundas-role-in-Sikh-militancy-to-be-probed-by-Delhi-Punjab-cops/articleshow/21927789.cms
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