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| 172 terror camps exist in Bangladesh | | Anti-India camps house J&K-bound ultras too | |
B L KAK
NEW DELHI, JUNE 14: Anti-India Islamist radicals in Bangladesh have posed a new threat, with the opening of new terror camps in several places bordering India. And even as Bangladesh has no border with the north Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir, Islamist fundamentalists in the country have reportedly aided and abetted training in arms for hundreds of militants or jihadis bound for J&K.
According to intelligence inputs, dozens of Pakistani personnel have for the past quite some time been engaged in the task of assisting Bangladeshi Islamist radicals in building strong anti-India cadres in different terror camps in Bangladesh. These intelligence inputs, at present being examined by the government of India, have also referred to the establishment of at least 12 terror camps across Jammu border, where dozens of Bangladeshi guerrillas have been trained for their "final play" in different parts of Jammu region against Indian forces.
The government of India has taken exception to the unwillingness of Bangladesh to shut anti-India militant camps on its soil. Renewed activity by anti-India Islamist guerrillas in Bangladesh has triggered conern, if not commotion, within the Indian intelligence community. The Bangladesh government continues to be indiferent even after New Delhi has, on more than one occasion, pointed out to Dhaka that some terror attacks in India in recent times had linkages with individuals and outfits in Bangladesh. EARLY TIMES was officially told that India had provided to the Bangladesn government a detailed list of the camps operating there.
This apart, New Delhi also apprised Dhaka of a set of inputs vis-a-vis the modus operandi of how Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is recruiting Indians and training them. However, Dhaka's response, accccording to the Indian Home Ministry, has so far been to deny the presence of the terrorist camps even as anti-India activities of ISI are increasing.
Intelligence Bureau (IB) is learnt to have furnished a list of recruits who have been trained in these camps along the India-Bangladesh border, and some drafted from the Middle East to carry out subversive acts, while the Union Home Ministry has pointed to the list of 172 terror camps and detailed how the insurgents were supported by Bangladeshi fundamentalist outfits sponsored by ISI, with money coming from the Gulf.
There is evidence with the government of India about Bangladesh having become the focal point of anti-India activities and about ISI being in direct league with HuJI (Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islam) for all terrorist-related activities inside India. Training and recruitment are being done on the soil of Banghladesh. Although New Delhi and Dhaka have agreed to examine the possibility of instituting a bilateral mechanism soon to combat terrorism and organised crime, there is a strong possibility that skirmishes along the India-Bangladesh border could blow up into a major flare-up.
Some of the top Indian militants seeking sanctuary in Bangladesh belong to the United National Liberation Front (UNLF), the Peoples' Liberation Army (PLA), the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) and the Kanlei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL).
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