Dhanabalan

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“Bahawalpur.”

I still have chills in my heart from when I first heard that town’s name in late January 2002. For the 23 years since, I have reported on how Pakistani intelligence and military leaders have used that city — Bahawalpur — in the southern province of Punjab as a base for its homegrown domestic terrorists.

When I heard India bombed training camps in Pakistan this week in Operation Sindoor, in response to a Pakistani terrorist rampage in India’s Kashmir state, I had one city’s name on my lips: Bahawalpur.

Did India bomb Bahawalpur?

It did. I knew then India was striking actual hubs for Pakistan’s homegrown domestic terrorism.

Why do I know?

My friend, WSJ reporter Danny Pearl, went to Bahawalpur in December 2001 with a notebook and a pen. Gen. Pervez Musharraf had just promised he was shutting down Pakistan’s militant groups after a strike by Pakistan’s terrorists against the Parliament in India, and Danny reported on the militant offices in Bahawalpur.

He literally knocked on their doors. Dear Dr. @yudapearl, this story is a window into Danny’s reporting enterprise. And because people will wonder: Danny was no cowboy. This was a calculated low-risk reporting trip because no journalist had been targeted for kidnapping in Pakistan. Around that time, Danny sent me an email: “I’m anxious to go to Afghanistan, but I’m not anxious to die.”

What did Danny learn?

The militant training camps were open for business in Bahawalpur.

On Jan. 23, 2002, Danny left a home I had rented in Karachi, Pakistan, for an interview.

I learned Danny’s fixer, Asif Farooqi, had arranged an interview for Danny through a man named “Arif.” Danny didn’t know it but Arif was the PR man for a militant group, Harkutul Mujahadeen. What was Arif’s hometown? Bahawalpur.

The police launched a manhunt to find Arif in Bahawalpur. We learned Arif’s family faked a funeral for Arif. Police found him trying to board a bus in Muzaffarabad, across the country by Pakistan’s border with Kashmir.

It is another town India said it bombed terrorist training facilities.

Arif had handed Danny off to Omar Sheikh,a British-Pakistani dropout from the London School of Economics, radicalized in the 1990s in London mosques. He went to Pakistan to train in these militant training camps. Then he kidnapped tourists in India. He was caught and jailed but on Dec. 31, 1999, he was traded for hostages in the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814.

Omar Sheikh was freed with Pakistani terrorist leader Masood Azhar, whose family was allegedly killed this week by India’s air strike in Bahawalpur.

Did Pakistan jail Omar Sheikh and Masood Azhar when they returned to Pakistan with a third terrorist, freed from India’s jails?

No. Pakistan’s military and intelligence gave them safe passage. They used them as weapons against India. But in fact these domestic terrorists have waged war against innocents in Pakistan, like civil society activists, Benazir Bhutto, Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, schoolchildren and countless others.

Their extremism has ruined Pakistan, and Pakistanis can’t blame America for creating the mujahideen to fight the Soviets in the 1980s.

Pakistan has had a duty to dismantle those terrorist bases — for even the safety of its own people. What India is doing is a strategic attack on terrorist bases Pakistani military and intelligence should have eliminated but never did in their obsession to take over Kashmir.

You will see parallels in the propaganda messages against India and Israel. Like Hamas, Pakistani terrorists crossed a border to kill. Now, Pakistani propagandists call themselves victims of their “fascist” “colonizer” neighbor.

It’s the Reverse Uno strategy of moral inversion, just like @stoolpresidente got from the Temple student who won’t take responsibility for promoting the “HATE THE JEWS” sign. Don’t fall for it. Nations, communities and people must own up to their extremism, from Bahawalpur to beyond.

[Dhanabalan @iamdhanabalan]

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@navinram999 Thala, Veri thanam!! 😅

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@LPLouisPhilippe
I have a problem with my order. I made an order today from your online shopping portal, the pin code automatically chose a wrong city which I couldn’t edit. Can you DM me so I can share the order number and the full address. Thanks

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@harryhkwtd @airindiain @HardeepSPuri @PMOIndia This is really frustrating to hear. The purpose of the @airindiain flights itself has proven wrong here. Can someone look and help the stranded passengers? @AAI_Official @HardeepSPuri @airfrance @ParisAeroport

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@proximus Is it possible to start bit earlier ? I can pay the charges from my pocket for this month. My current subscription with another provider ends this week. So I would like to start bit earlier to check the connectivity, speed etc

[Dhanabalan @iamdhanabalan]

@proximus sent you DM with a question. Could you have a look. Thanks

[Dhanabalan @iamdhanabalan]

@proximus Sent you the info via DM. Thanks

[Dhanabalan @iamdhanabalan]

@proximus Hello, no since I'm planning to change my address next month. Can I subscribe and just use the public WiFi until then ? In case if I drop the plan to change address will then I be able to install the modem at current address later ?

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@qrsupport I cannot cancel my tickets with voucher and I didn’t get any confirmation on cancellation request. I have my flight tomorrow. Could you please help!

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@travelgenio @qrsupport I have my qatar flight to India on 21/3 and India has restricted entry. I have asked for cancellation with travel voucher via @travelgenio a week back but i haven’t got any replying yet. My flight is in next 72 hours. Please reply to my request

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@qrsupport I have my flight to India by Saturday. I sent you a DM with info. Please reply

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@proximusbizz I can’t DM you. Btw I could detect a good signal strength for “Proximus Public WiFi” in my apartment. I’m unsure how it works. Is there anyway you could provide a service on that. ? So we don’t need to risk or burden your colleagues for installation.

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@proximus @ProximusGroup
I’m hearing from my colleagues and friends that you have removed the cap limits on home internet usage to help people work from home seamlessly. Is that true?
@proximusbizz

[Dhanabalan @iamdhanabalan]

@proximusbizz Thanks for the quick response. I have an internet connection and the 150GB volume provided by the internet provider is exausted, due to the usage of me and my wife being working from home.