There are two ways in which to recreate the short life of Gulam Yazdani, or Naveed as he was called at home. The first relies on IB dossiers, interrogation reports and news reports based on the first two. In this narrative, Yazdani appears as an engineering student who turned to a life of terrorism and met his well-deserved end at the hands of the police in 2006. A native of Nalgonda, Yazdani was said to have been among the 14 men from the state who were recruited to be trained by the Lashkar in Pakistan after the Gujarat riots. Alleged mastermind of the Dilsukhnagar Saibaba temple blast in 2002, Haren pandya murder in 2003 and suicide attack on STF Headquarters in Hyderabad in 2005, the bombing of Delhi Patna Shramjeevi Express at Jaunpur in 2005, Yazdani quickly rose to head the Lashkar’s South India operation and was among the most wanted men on the Andhra Pradesh police list. He had also allegedly hatched a plan to blow up a Ganesh temple near Secunderabad railway
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“We only saw his dead body.”
We do not know what he did in those intervening years. How he lived, where he lived. We will never know perhaps.
Intelligence reports say he rose to prominence in the Lashkar ranks, planning, for example, the suicide attack on the Special Task Force (STF) headquarters in Hyderabad. Did he?
A man with backpack walked into the deserted STF headquarters — Dussehra eve had kept most STF personnel away from office — and blew himself up. His severed head and torso were recovered from outside the office. How he was identified as Mohtasin Bilal, a Bangladeshi national, carrying out the HUJI-B’s first such operation,(8) is itself interesting. From the charred debris of this human bomb, investigators recovered a suicide note(9), and a rubber slipper with a tell-all price tag that read ‘Taka 100’.(10) These clues, salvaged extraordinarily from the burnt body, disclosed to the investigators his
“We only saw his dead body.”
We do not know what he did in those intervening years. How he lived, where he lived. We will never know perhaps.
Intelligence reports say he rose to prominence in the Lashkar ranks, planning, for example, the suicide attack on the Special Task Force (STF) headquarters in Hyderabad. Did he?
A man with backpack walked into the deserted STF headquarters — Dussehra eve had kept most STF personnel away from office — and blew himself up. His severed head and torso were recovered from outside the office. How he was identified as Mohtasin Bilal, a Bangladeshi national, carrying out the HUJI-B’s first such operation,(8) is itself interesting. From the charred debris of this human bomb, investigators recovered a suicide note(9), and a rubber slipper with a tell-all price tag that read ‘Taka 100’.(10) These clues, salvaged extraordinarily from the burnt body, disclosed to the investigators his