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Home ministry report bares ISI's destabilisation moves

Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence has evolved a three-pronged strategy to destabilise India, according to a report of the home ministry.

Encouraging different insurgent groups in India and supplying them sophisticated armaments and powerful explosives to carry out subversive activities in various parts of India, pumping in counterfeit notes through its agents to destabilise the Indian economy and indulging in massive drug trafficking through the insurgent groups to destroy the Indian youth are the three elements of the ISI strategy, the report says.

According to the report, as per the evil designs of Pakistan, the ISI would encourage different insurgent groups in India, especially the Islamic militants and mercenaries, and supply them sophisticated armaments and powerful explosives, including RDX and landmines, to carry out subversive activities in Jammu and Kashmir and other states of the country.

''The ISI planned to target vital defence installations, railway stations, bridges, busy markets and religious congregations and utilise the militants and Islamic fanatics for carrying out subversive activities in such places,'' the report said.

ISI agents had also chalked out a plan to infiltrate into the Muslim population of India and motivate them, particularly the youth, to fight against the government and supply vital information to Pakistan.

''Though the ISI has not been able to motivate a majority section of Indian Muslims, a small section, particularly neo-converts and the unemployed, have been playing in tune with the Pakistan intelligence agency,'' the report observed.

Sources in the home department say the situation has become even more critical after the military junta in Pakistan snatched power from former prime minister Nawaz Sharief in Pakistan.

The sources said at least ten to 12 Islamic groups had been working in India at the behest of the ISI. The ISI agents had been recruiting Muslim youths, mainly from the border areas for jihad and training them in handling explosives and firearms.

The ISI was successful in engaging small time traders, mostly Muslims, in urban areas and supplying them funds to increase their business and to provide shelter to its agents. The ISI had also been utilising the Pakhtoons and Afghans (known as Kabliwalas or money lenders) and Kashmiri shawl vendors for its evil purposes.

''What is more unfortunate that even some Hindu small-time traders had been working for the ISI agents because of the steady fund supply. But most of them are providing logistic support and are not aware of ISI activities,'' they said.

The home department report said the ISI had also chalked out a plan to destabilise the Indian economy by pumping in huge counterfeit notes through the insurgent groups and its agents in various parts of India.

The report said most of these counterfeit notes were printed in Bangkok but of late the ISI had set up another base for printing such notes in Kathmandu with the active cooperation of the Pak embassy there.

It said the ISI used to distribute these counterfeit notes among the insurgent groups and Islamic militants for circulation in India and some unscrupulous traders had been using these notes to make quick money.

Thirdly, the report said, the ISI had been deeply engaged in drug trafficking and they had already engaged the Indian insurgent groups and the Islamic militants in the business.

''One of the purposes of drug-trafficking is to destroy the Indian youth and discredit India before the world,'' it pointed out.

It said, ''Many of the Pakistan army officials are notoriously famed for drug-trafficking and are deeply involved in clandestine arms business.'' Chinese-made rifles were easily available in the clandestine market and these rifles were being supplied to the militants by the ISI at a high price.

''To meet the expenses of these firearms the Indian militants have been extorting heavily from the people,'' the report added.

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