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Captured ultra reveals brutality in ISI camps - The Indian Express
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September 12, 1998
Title: Captured ultra reveals brutality in ISI camps
Author: Express News Service
Publication: The Indian Express
Date: September 12, 1998
Pakistani agents have unleashed a brutal regime in PoK and
forcibly recruit youth for arms training to wage war in Jammu &
Kashmir, revealed Miskeen, a foreign militant of Harkat-ul-Ansar,
who was arrested by security forces on Thursday.
At a joint Press conference by the Army and the BSF at the 15
Corps headquarters today, the three local Hizbollah militants and
the Harkat militant captured alive during an operation at village
Pathwari, Nowgam, yesterday, were presented before media persons.
Miskeen, hailing from the Lipa Valley of PoK, categorically
denounced the path of the gun and said he had made a grievous
mistake by taking up arms. "My advice to the youth of PoK is not
to get misled and take to militancy, said Miskeen, who hails
>from an impoverished family in the Lipa valley. Miskeen's cousin,
Abu Baki, of the Harkat was also killed in the encounter at
Pathwari. "The situation in PoK is very oppressive as ISI agents
pick up boys from the bazaar and force them to become militants,"
he said.
Persistent queries as to why he had surrendered did not elicit a
dear explanation. "I surrendered because of the halaat
(circumstances)". Did not his training stand him in good stead
once the bullets began to fly around the cordoned house? Miskeen
claimed that he received no more that a mere three-day training
in the AK rifle at a training camp in Lipa Valley.
Giving details of the camps, Miskeen revealed that Maulana Fazlul
Rehman, the Amir (leader) of one faction of the Jamait-e-Ulma-i-
Islam and patron of Harkat camps on the Pakistani Afghan border
where the Taliban are also taught, often visited the training
camps in PoK.
Their faces wrapped in cloth to conceal their identity, one of
the two local militants of the Hizbollah told the Indian Express
that he along with two other recruits from Karnah were imprisoned
for two years in a jail in Muzzafarabad after being branded as
"Indian agents=94.
was freed, trained and sent to wage war against the Indian
Army and kill informers by the ISI. But I would have surrendered
because my heart was not in the fighting and was worried about
the future of my family," the Hizbollah militant said.
The Hizbollah militant said criminals from the Kela jail in
Muzzafarabad were being released before time and trained as
militants to wage war in Jammu and Kashmir. Manzoor Ahmad Dar, a
Hizbollah militant from the Hajin area, said that he had been
given Rs 13,000 by ISI agents to become a militant. "I went
across to PoK in 1994 but broke my hand and could not receive
training. I worked as a sewing hand in a shop at the Idgah lane,
Muzzafarabad for two years," he said.
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