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| Beleaguered Assam faces serious threat | | Pak ISI and Bangladesh's DGFI for anti-India stir | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI Nov 23
It is official: "Sleeper agents" of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) are active in parts of the troubled State of Assam. These agents exist among the large sections of the migrated population in the State. Worse still, external forces are playing a role in helping the outlawed United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
Official inputs available with the Ministries of Defence and Home Affairs reveal that the ISI continues to back the ULFA. For this, the ISI has enlisted cooperation of the Director General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) in Bangladesh. Lt. Gen. RK Chhabra, GOC-in-C of the Indian Army's 4 Corps, has just placed himself on record, saying: "The role of external forces in the insurgency is obvious given that top ULFA leaders are sitting in Bangladesh, thanks to the ISI and DGFI. Jihadi groups from Bangladesh are providng all kinds of moral and material suppoort to the ULFA".
It is also offical: There are jihadi elements among the immigrant population in Assam. They are not into terrorism in a big way, but they are definitely involved in gun running, fake currency rackedts and drugs running. Some of these jihadis went to Bangladesh for training and are now lying low as sleeper aagents of Pakistan's ISI.
Unable to recruit young people from Assam for its operations, the banned ULFA has begun recruiting poor Bangladeshi youths into its ranks for acts of terrorism in the country.
A sensational report fed to the Union Home Ministry: Pakistani youths will soon join the ULFA's activities. ULFA's army wing chief, Paresh Barua, recently visited Pakistan to seek its assistance for his organisation's activities. Official circles attach much importance to the report in the context of difficulties being faced by the ULFA in setting up fresh camps in Bhutan. Cooperation from the government of Bhutan to the Indian security forces has reportedly upset the ULFA leadership.
It has been offically stated that the ULFA used the 43 days of unilateral truce declared by the government of India during August and September this year to regroup and replenish its arsenal and coffer. Post-September 23, the day Indian Army resumed operations against the ULFA on expiry of the unilateral truce by the Centre, the militant outfit triggered nearly 30 improvised explosive devices and grenades, killing at least 20 civilians and injuring over 100 persons.
The Army, which has been engaged in counter-insurgency operation in Assam since Novemver 27, 1990, believes that its role in relation to insurgency is confined to creating the ground for a political process to take place for finding a permanent solution. |
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