The Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba, which has been charged with the December 13 attack on Indian Parliament and whose assets have been frozen by Washington and Islamabad, has changed its address. Its official website, which till recently, gave its address as 5 Chamberlane Road, Lahore, now no longer mentions it. Instead the contact leads one to the e-mail address of the Markaz-e-Dawa, the political wing of the terrorist outfit which last week changed its name to Pasban-e-Ahle-Hadith.
According to retired intelligence officer, B Raman, the official websites of LeT in their propaganda literature and official websites, projected themselves as Pakistan-based organisations. They also gave their addresses and telephone/fax numbers in Pakistan and particulars of Pakistani banks in which their accounts are held and to which their supporters should send their contributions, Raman has pointed in a new book, a terrorist state as a frontline ally.
Interestingly, even as US President George Bush has described Lashkar as a Kashmir-based organisation, The Herald, a prestigious monthly journal of the Dawn group, described it as Pakistan's largest so-called jehadi organisation.
Bureau Report