Straw sees clear links between ISI, ultras

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Publication: NDTV.com
Date: June 12, 2002

British Foreign Minister Jack Straw has said that  there are clear links between the Pakistani intelligence agency, the  Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), and various Pakistan-based  terrorists organisations such as the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e- Mohammed.
 
Speaking in the House of Commons on Monday, Straw said, "In the last  decade or so the character of the conflict has changed with the  incursion of armed militants across the Line of Control into India  from the Pakistani side. A number of terrorist organisations  including the Laskhar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Harkat-ul- Mujahideen, each of which I proscribed when I was Home Secretary,  have been at the forefront of violent activity within the region."

"India has long charged that such terrorism has had the covert  support of successive Pakistani governments, and in particular the  Inter-services Intelligence Directorate (ISID), the main intelligence  agency in Pakistan. Her Majesty's Government accepts that there is a  clear link between ISID and these groups," Straw added.
 

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