Author: UNI
Publication: Newkerala.com
Date: January 25, 2006
URL: http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=94588
Political parties of the secular hue, some
members of parliament, a Chief Minister, newspapers, dozens of MLAs across
India and many Muslim organisations are helping Pakistan's Inter Services
Intelligence (ISI) spearhead a ''Jehadist thrust'' into ''Hindu'' India, a
former Intelligence Bureau official claims in his latest book.
Maloy Krishna Dhar, the former IB Joint Director
who admits ideological affinity with the BJP, builds on his ''Open Secrets:
India's Intelligence Unveiled'' (2005) with his latest offering: ''Fulcrum
of Evil--ISI-CIA-Al Qaeda Nexus'' (Manas publications) by linking the ISI
to a global axis of jehadist organisations.
Just as the KGB under the erstwhile Soviet
Union and the CIA of the United States did in the past, the ISI has been remarkably
successful in penetrating the highest rungs of ''Indian political spectrum''
and other vital sectors of national activities, he says.
Indian intelligence agencies fail not because
of incompetence, but because the ''political masters had not armed these sensitive
organs of governance with adequate sinews of war'', he writes.
Pakistan achieved ''spectacular success''
in ''penetrating the security diaphragm of certain areas of the political
spectrum'' through embassy-based officials in Delhi, central Indian states,
east and north east India, Maharashtra and Gujarat; through political and
religious leaders in southern Indian states; and through political, media
and religious intermediaries in three major eastern states, he says.
''A major target area was the Parliament secretariat
office, from which sensitive documents related to questions and answers and
meetings of Estimate Committee, Standing Committee and Public Accounts Committee
on defence and other sensitive areas were smuggled out. Such papers are also
gathered through certain Members of Parliament. Members of Parliament frequenting
the intellectuals' hubs in Delhi and prestigious hotels were tapped directly
and indirectly through common media friends''.
''This process continues unabated as Indian
intelligence fraternity fights shy of political top guns, as they are not
sure who will be the next boss in Delhi''.
