Quick notes: Bhatkal, threat from Nepal border...

• Jihadi paradise: Bhatkal, a port town in Uttara Kannada district, played a crucial role in almost all terror assaults across the country between November 2007 and July this year, including the Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune and Bodh Gaya blasts. Unlike other towns, it’s the Muslim here who is affluent, and not the Hindu.



• Muslims of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin have for past many years been grabbing no-man’s land on both sides of international border with connivance of Nepali authorities for putting up their illegal colonies, mosques and madrasas, stretching from Uttarakhand to Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Sikkim.



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