Author: K Anurag
Publication: Rediff.com
Date: December 15, 2007
URL: http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/dec/15isi.htm
The Assam police on Saturday claimed to have
arrested a hardcore operative of the Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence
in a special operation carried out in a Guwahati locality on Friday night.
A senior police official of the Special Operation
Unit of the Assam police informed that the arrested ISI operative was identified
as S M Alam alias Mujibullah Alam alias Asif Alam.
He hails from Ajampur under Uttara police
station in Dhaka in Bangladesh.
The ISI operative has been active in Assam
and the north-east since 2006 and used to look after all operational matters
of the ISI there.
He has been under surveillance of the Assam
police for sometime and is currently being interrogated by the special branch
of Assam police in Guwahati.
The arrested 'ISI operative' was a member
of Jamati Islami and Chatra Sibir in Bangladesh and joined the Pakistan-based
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen in 1993. He underwent training in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir,
the police claimed
The police further informed that S M Alam
then joined Jamatul Mujahideen in Bangladesh in the year 2005 and had been
active in Assam and the north-east since 2006.
The Assam government, the police and the army
have been engaged in counter-insurgency operations in the state and have been
maintaining that the Pakistani ISI has close links with north-east militant
groups including the proscribed United Liberation Front of Asom.
