Author: Times News Network
Publication: The Times of India
Date: April 29, 2005
URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1093509.cms
India has said that it remains unimpressed
by Pakistan's public postures on global terrorism since the terror infrastructure
created by the latter's ISI remains in tact.
This network continues to recruit,
finance and train terrorists for infiltration, not only in the north-west,
but also in the north-east, annual report of the home ministry noted.
Tabled in Parliament on Friday,
the report is silent on the ISI's coordination with the eastern neighbour
Bangladesh, considered as a hub of terrorist activities and religious extremism
in the latest US report released earlier this week.
The report says that it has been
constantly sensitising state governments about the threat perceptions and
activities of the ISI, sharing inputs and intelligence with them to counter
such activities.
On the naxal issue, the report notes
that "despite all out efforts by the security forces, naxalite groups remain
steadfast in their efforts to realise the Compact Revolutionary Zone (CRZ)."
To the list of 76 districts in nine
states (Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya
Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal) three more states
(Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala) have been added where the naxals have
been trying to increase their influence and operations.
The expansionist designs of the
naxals have been underlined by the merger last October of the Communist
Party (Marxist-Leninist-Peoples War) and the Maoist Coordination Centre
of India under the new name, Communist Party of India (Maoist), together
with the Communist Party of Nepal.
The emergence of the CPI (Maoist),
as a result of the merger, adds a new dimension to the naxal scenario,
says the annual report for 2004-05.
The naxalite groups as a whole have
9,300 hardcore underground cadres that hold around 6,500 regular weapons,
besides a large number of unlicensed country-made arms, the report says.
