Title: ISI agents plan
to strike in saffron costumes
Author: Preetam Srivastava
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: February 22, 2000
Taking the privilege
enjoyed by sadhus and men-in-saffron in the Bharatiya Janata Party regime,
the Pakistani ISI agents have included saffron colour dresses and sadhus
make-ups in their costumes to hide their identifies.
According to intelligence
agencies, the-ISI has planned a new disruptive operation to create unrest
in the State. Interestingly, the new ISI operation is named as "Krishna
India".
The intelligence department
has warned the State Government of terrorist activities by Osama bin Laden,
the Saudi terrorist currently based in Afghanistan whose aides are suppose
to help Pak militants In hijacking Indian Airlines plane recently.
Sources said that the
Home Department after being warned by the intelligence agencies, and also
taking into account series of bomb explosions and other terrorists activities,
had sent a secret fax message to the State Government earlier this month
alerting them of the destructive activities planned by the Pakistani intelligence
agency.
The Fax mentioned that
the ISI was sending dozens of militants in UP and its neighbouring States
Rajasthan and Bihar under Its new operation Krishna India.
The fax further says
that under operation Krishna India, Pak militants sent by ISI will move
in different cities, specially at religious places, either in saffron colour
dresses and sadhus make-ups and will plant explosive materials in buses
and trains and crowded public places.
To cheek any untoward
incident, the fax instructed the State Government to alert the civil force
and Government Railway Police to deploy their sleuths in plain clothes
and keep a close eye on suspicious men in sadhus makeup.
In a separate fax, the
Home Department had had asked the State Government to instruct police personnel
to set-up anti-hijacking and anti-sabotage squads and put the sleuths in
civil dresses at airports so that any disruptive activity can be prevented.
The fax said that intelligence
reports confirmed that the terrorist group led by Osama bin Laden has sent
a group of militants to attack Israeli targets in India like embassies,
consulates, diplomats residences and airlines.
The fax has also asked
the State Government to gear up the surveillance measures to prelude any
possibility of attacks on Israeli targets specially at airports in India.
