Author: PTI
Publication: The New Indian Express
Date: August 14, 2006
URL: http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitems.asp?ID=IEH20060813123834
The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) has received
an intelligence report that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) plans
to spread HIV among personnel of the Indian army and para-military forces.
A recent intelligence report from Delhi had
apprised the SSB of the ISI's design, likely to be implemented with the help
of some militant organisations, SSB Deputy Inspector General G S Sarna told
reporters here.
Addressing an awareness camp on AIDS yesterday
at Madan Jote village bordering Nepal, 30 km from here, Sarna asked SSB personnel
to frustrate the ISI plan by practising safe sex.
The SSB, which is engaged in guarding the
Nepal and Bhutan borders, has taken steps to check the supply of syringes
to its hospitals and health units.
According to Sarna, a little negligence at
any stage of testing of the syringes may have serious consequences.
