Author: PTI
Publication: The Times of India
Date: November 10, 2009
Pakistan's ISI has influence over every terrorist
group and it uses these contacts to its "advantage", former military
ruler Pervez Musharraf has said in a rare admission that corroborates India's
allegations of Pakistan's hand in cross-border terrorist acts.
Debunking Pakistan's oft-repeated position
that its Inter-Services Intelligence had no role in terror activities across
the border, Musharraf claimed that its intelligence agency's effectiveness
was through such "ingress".
"Always, in every group, there is an
ingress of the ISI. And that is the efficiency, the effectiveness of the ISI.
You must have ingress, so that you can influence all organizations.
"And it is this ingress of theirs, which
doesn't mean that they are supporting them, but they have ingress. They have
some contacts, which can be used to their advantage," Musharraf said
in an interview to CNN.
The former president was responding to a question
on statements by US leaders that ISI still has contacts with the terrorists.
Musharraf alleged that Afghan intelligence,
government and president are under the influence of Indian intelligence agencies
and he has documentary evidence on it. India has rubbished Pakistan's allegations
saying it was not involved in any way in the troubles in Afghanistan.
"The Afghan intelligence (is) entirely
under the influence of Indian intelligence. We know that," he said.
