Author: Rupam Banerjee
Publication: Meri News
Date: November 12, 2008
URL: http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=148632
The reports point out that with easy availability
of arms, ammunition and explosives from China via Myanmar and the unholy alliance
of terrorists are set to wreak havoc in India as evident from the recent blasts
in North India, Tripura and Assam..
The Role of Bangladesh has attracted serious
scrutiny over the recent serial blasts in India. The Bangladesh Government's
repeated assurance of taking strong actions against terrorist groups appears
to be hollow as a section of the Bangladeshi civil and military officials
have been working hand in hand with the agents of Pakistan's Inter Services
Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan to help out the Islamic terrorists and the
militants from India's North-eastern states and West Bengal.
In fact, according to the intelligence reports,
these ISI agents and Bangladeshi officials have now been coordinating between
the Indian militants and Islamic terrorists to carry out subversive activities
in India.
The reports point out that with easy availability
of arms, ammunition and explosives from China via Myanmar and the unholy alliance
of terrorists are set to create havoc in India as it is evident from the recent
blasts in North India, Tripura and Assam.
The reports have also mentioned that the militants
from Assam,. Tripura, Manipur and West Bengal have already undergone a series
of training along with the members of the Islamic Jihadi Council (IJC) in
the use of different kind of explosives, including RDX and TNT under the supervision
of some ISI and Bangladeshi experts.
According to the reports, the Islamic Jihadi
Council is comprised of activists from Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI), Lashkar-e-Toiba
(L-e-T), Taliban, and Al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorist groups, who are
now settled in different parts of Bangladesh.
The reports also point out that under the
supervision of the ISI and Bangladeshi experts, the IJC members, most of whom
are trained in Pakistan and Afghanistan, have been working together with the
members of different militant groups from North-East India for carrying out
subversive activities in India.
Besides utilising the militants from the North-eastern
parts of India, it is feared that the ISI and the IJC may even use the Maoists
to carry out serial blasts in different parts of the country. The United Liberation
Front of Asom (ULFA) had already arranged meetings between the ISI agents
and the Maoists, both in Bangladesh and Nepal.
Reports from across the border said that at
least 20 teams, comprising Indian militants and Islamic terrorists, had been
formed after extensive training on use of different kinds of explosive to
carry out clandestine activities in different parts of India.
These teams had reportedly established contacts
with their linkmen in Jalpaiguri, Siliguri, Malda, Murshidabad, Nadia, North
and South 24 Parganas and Kolkata in West Bengal. Each team is comprised of
at least seven members.
The Intelligence agencies blamed the attitude
of the Bangladesh Government and poor management of Indo-Bangla border for
the recent spurt in serial blasts in different parts of India. The concerned
officials also stated that lack of cooperation from the Bangladesh authorities
and insufficient border security forces made it virtually impossible to crack
down these militant groups.
They also pointed out that the recent handover
of 17 ATTF militants by the Bangladesh Rifles was merely an eyewash. The seventeen
militants actually belonged to a breakaway group, which wanted to surrender
before the authorities in Tripura. The Bangladesh Rifles intercepted the seventeen
militants and put them behind the bar. Later, they were handed over to the
BSF authorities.
However, Bangladesh authorities are not leaving
any stone unturned to play host to the leaders of Indian militants like Anup
Chetia, Paresh Barua and Jiban Singh.
Most of these leaders have been running businesses
in and around Dhaka and Chittagong with the money extorted from the Indian
businessmen and the so-called help from their 'friends' in Bangladesh Government.
West Bengal, Assam and Tripura have been demanding
for a long time deployment of more Border Security Force battalions for proper
manning of the Indo-Bangladesh border. But the Centre continued to turn a
deaf ear to their demands.
A senior West Bengal official said that serial
blasts were designed to destroy the basic fabric of the country. He further
added that it is high time Centre paid more attention to the international
border with Bangladesh. He also warned that any further delay would just aggravate
the situation.
The official also added that the concerned
authorities have intensified vigilance along the border and other vulnerable
areas to prevent any subversive activity by the unholy nexus of Islamic terrorists
and Indian militants.
