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Activist & Investigative Reporter 🕵️ | Farmer's Son 🌾| Fact-Checker and Founder @onlyfactindia

Feb 26, 2021, 6 tweets

If I say, almost every big terrorist attack or plan in India had support from UK Gov and Intelligence agency MI6 do you believe it?

It is shocking right?

Let me start with it Kandahar plane hijack, which was done by terrorists in 1999.

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They had many demands including release of terrorists who were in jail in India.
In those, one name was Ahmed Omar Sheikh. Many of you don’t know about him till the time!
In initial negotiation, Kidnapers demanded that Ahmed
Omar Sheikh, to be given safe passage to England.

Sheikh, a British national, was tried and convicted in
India, for his role in the kidnapping of four British nationals
and an American in 1995. He was sentenced to
five years in prison in November 1998.

Initially, the
British government announced that it would provide
Mr. Sheikh with safe passage to Britain, and would not
Prosecute him or make any effort to extradite him back
to India.

Now question is that why UK government was ready to accept a terrorist?

Which was later didn’t happen under pressure of international community!

answer is Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh
was originally recruited by British intelligence agency MI6!

Former Pakistani president Musharraf had also stated this in his book ‘The Line of Fire’

Later this terrorist was living in Pakistan and He is most well known for his role in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl!

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