Author: B L Kak
Publication: The Daily Excelsior
Date: April 5, 2002
NEW DELHI, Apr 4: The Intelligence
Bureau (IB) has informed the Government that subversive foreign outfits
have plans to pose the 'gravest' threat to India's internal security.
Doubts in this regard have been
set at rest, with the covert links forged by subversive outfits, including
Pakistan's ISI, with ideological extremists and insurgents in India. The
IB's 'presentation paper' available with the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)
is criss-crossed with several instances in support of organisation's findings
on foreign subversives' nexus with separatist militants and Left extremists
in India.
The ISI, the paper is said to have
established, uses covert modules in Jammu and Kashmir as well as in northeast
region to fan insurgency. The game plan is to intensify its proxy war operation
from J&K to the northeast, strengthening the strategic alliance between
Kashmir militants and international terrorist groups.
Finding Number two: The Communist
Party of Nepal (Maoist) has tied up with the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC)
and the People's War Group (PWG) to carve out a 'Compact Revolutionary
Zone' extending from Nepal through Bihar and the Dandakarnya region to
Andhra Pradesh. The Left extremist attacks in Andhra Pradesh and Maoist
uprising in Nepal are pointers to covert links subversive foreign outfits
have forged with Left extremists and separatist militants in India.
Finding Number three: Maoists in
Kathmandu have tapped the underworld in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh to procure
arms and ammunition. Doubts in this regard have been removed after the
recent interception of trucks along the Indo-Nepal border. Seizures along
the border have unearthed large quantities of RDX and Gelatin sticks and
caches of locally made revolvers and pistols.
Finding Number four: Ideological
motivation of Left extremists in India comes from the Maoists in Nepal.
The PWG's strategy of targeting top politicians in Andhra Pradesh is similar
to to that the Maoists' strategy in Nepal.
Finding Number five: ISI is the
main agency using covert modules through its network within India and from
its bases in India's neighbourhood.
Finding Number six: Most vulnerable
among the States, on the ISI list, are Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Maharashtra,
Bihar, UP, Gujarat, West Bengal and Assam. Finding Number seven: Efforts
have been launched to revive militancy in Punjab by a core of 250 militants
of Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir living in India as well as abroad. The
ISI continues to patronize several of their leaders by giving them refuge
in Pakistan.
The Intelligence Bureau has also
apprised the Home Minister, Mr L K Advani, of how and when the ISI is using,
and would like to use, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh to create a network
for sabotage, subversion and espionage on Indian soil. No wonder, finding
Number eight: ISI also uses terrorist training camps in these countries
and supplies arms to ULFA camps in Nepal and the National Democratic Front
of Bodoland. Besides training terrorists, the ISI encourages illegal migration
from Bangladesh with the aim of changing the demographic patterns in the
Indian border States. It also finds easy recruits from the migrants.