Author: Shaik Ahmed Ali
Publication: The Times of India
Date: September 29, 2001
Exploiting the religious sentiments
of youngsters from the city, Pakistan's Inter-services Intelligence (ISI)
has been training them in the use of arms and explosives for over a decade
now.
Several organisations having ideological
links with Pakistansponsored terrorist groups like Lashkar-e-Toiba, Iquanul
Muslimeen, Hizbul Mujahideen and others have been formed in the city to
recruit local youths. The recruitment is believed to have started in 1991,
and several youngsters from the city and districts like Nalgonda, Warangal,
Nizamabad and Karimnagar are being selected and sent to Pakistan for training
in use of arms and explosives. Generally, they are sent back after the
completion of the training'
On August 12, 1993, some ISI-trained
militants planted bombs with timer devices in the vicinity of Humayun Nagar
and Abids police stations. The blasts damaged the compound wall of the
Humayun Nagar police station and injured the watchman of a shop adjacent
to the Abids police station.
In November 1993, two Kashmiri youths
were arrested in the city by the police and during interrogation they revealed
that Muslim youths from Hyderabad, Kolkata and Bhagalpur were sent to Pakistan
via Bangladesh for arms training through an agent in Kolkata. Ibis led
to the arrest of four more people. A revolver, hand grenades, explosive
materials, documents and cash were seized from them.
On December 6 the same year, a bomb
exploded in a compartment of AP Express near Moula Ali, killing two people
and injuring 14 others.
Nalgonda seems to be the hotbet
of ISI activities. In 1994, three youths from the district with alleged
ISI links were killed in an encounter at Marredpally in Secunderabad. Later,
the state police arrested about 22 gangsters from the district. Again in
1999, another group of youths from Nalgonda was arrested by the police
on similar grounds.
