The Hindustan Times earlier reported about the covert operation inside Pakistan by TSD and quoted its former official stating it was assigned to nab Hafiz Saeed of Jamaatud Dawah but didn’t mention TSD’s involvement in terrorist activities in Pakistan as has been revealed through inquiry board.
Since there was no explicit mention of Pakistan, it didn’t emerge on the radar of Pakistani media. The News spoke to different journalistic sources in India privy to details who confirmed that it was about Pakistan.
India’s Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) Lt Gen Vinod Bhatia, who headed a Board of Officers’ inquiry under the direct orders of Gen Bikram Singh, current army chief, to review the functioning of the TSD submitted the report in March this year to the Indian government. While report is not being publicised, however, TSD was closed in December 2012.
An RTI request filed for the copy of this report was also denied, stating that sharing this information was prejudicial to national security and can harmrelations with the neighbouring countries.
“In so far as your request for supply of order regarding setting up of ‘TSD’ and enquiry etc, is concerned, it is regretted that the same cannot be supplied in terms of Section 8 (1) (a) of the RTI Act,” the ministry said in reply to an RTI query as quoted in an Indian paper.
“The section bars disclosure of information which would prejudicially affect the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security, strategic, scientific or economic interests of the state, relation with foreign state or lead to incitement of an offence,” it further stated.
The inquiry report on TSD started leaking after former army chief’s disclosure in a TV interview that the army had “transferred funds to all ministers in Jammu and Kashmir since 1947”. His comments triggered a firestorm of indignant counter-allegations all the way from Delhi to Srinagar. The payouts, he insisted, were not “bribes” or for “political purpose”, but part of the larger initiative to promote stability in the insurgency-ridden state.
if this is what their army has been doing imagine what raw has been up to and for how long…
“sharing this information was prejudicial to national security and can harmrelations with the neighbouring countries.”
more like u don’t want it to be known that india is a terrorist state.
Off with the flights of fancy again are we…..
He “tried to enrol”. Doesn’t say he did. Balochistan blasts have been going on since 1960s. He said he tried to enrol in October 2011.
But either way – nothing wrong in what he’s doing. After all, Pakistan rolls out the red carpet for all terrorist scum bags – including Dawood Ibrahim, Hafiz Saeed, Masood Azhar, Osama bin Laden.
Funny to see the Pakis complain about it when India does the same thing they have been doing for decades.
Cry babies
still our govt. saying talk…dialogue…peace. Why don’t they retaliat? It seems that govt. getting afraid of fighting this hindus, who has no religion nor any basic….