Author: PTI
Publication: The Hindu
Date: October 9, 2004
URL: http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200410091801.htm
India today suggested that Pakistani
intelligence agency ISI could be "behind" the serial blasts in North-East
and said it has asked Bangladesh and Myanmar to take action against the
militants who had taken shelter in those countries.
"ISI is behind that ... they are
supporting (militants in North-East)," Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee
said when asked whether the hand of the Pakistani agency was suspected
in the recent blasts in Assam and Nagaland which claimed over 60 lives.
He was talking to reporters after
being conferred an honorary doctorate by Rai University.
Home Minister Shivraj Patil had
on Thursday stopped short of blaming the Pakistani intelligence agency,
but said "it does not mean we are giving a clean chit...neither are we
complaining."
To a question, Mukherjee said the
Government had taken up the issue of anti- India militants hiding in Bangladesh
and Myanmar with the Governments there and "asked for their support".
