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ISI plot in North-East exposed - The Daily
Posted By Ashok Chowgule (ashokvc@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in)
December 13, 1998
Title: ISI plot in North-East exposed
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Publication: The Daily
Date: December 13, 1998
A PLOT of the Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for fanning
insurgency and subversive activities in the north-east region have been
exposed with the recent seizure of explosives from the city, said Assam
deputy Inspector General of Police, CID, S P Kar, today. reports PTI.
As part of its 'proxy war' against the country, the ISI was despatching
explosives to the different militant outfits in the region to
destabilise the area, DIG Kar told PTI here.
Apprehension of cancers of a number of such consignments at the Guwahati
and Kamakhya railway stations near here recently revealed that the
explosives were manufactured in Pakistan and smuggled in through
Bhilwara and some other small towns in Rajasthan on the Indo-Pak border
for transportation to the north-east.
Stating the explosives containing gelatine sticks and detonators were
labelled as 'Made in India' manufactured in fictitious factories in
Uttar Pradesh and Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh, he said, they were handed
over to professional carriers who fanned out to different parts of the
country for delivery to militant and other destabilising agents.
Interrogation of a number of such apprehended carriers in the city as
well as verification of the seized explosives revealed that the ISI was
actively involved in destabilising the region by supplying such
material.
He further said that the carriers, who often did not know beyond one
conduit, explained the explosives were for catching fish when in
actuality they were redundant in the region's water bodies as they
remained mostly dry in the winter season being only rainfed.
The carriers transported the gelatine sticks and detonators in bed
rolls. rucksacks and holdalls travelling in trains originating from
Delhi to the region.
Stating they often wore military uniforms to avoid detection and
sometimes even claimed to be ex-armymen, the CID DIG said. the
transporters belonged to different states of the region.
The government railway police personnel travelling in the trains as
'mobile train checking party' and army personnel detected the carriers
who sometimes fled away leaving behind their consignments.
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