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ISI 'linking' to Maoists; Security agencies
worried
Wednesday October 31, 2012 07:37:55 PM,
N.C. Bipindra, IANS
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New Delhi: Pakistan's
covert operations agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has
forged deadly links with Maoists through overground radicals and
the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) activists not
just in West Bengal but the rest of India too, according to Indian
security agencies.
This information was shared among police and civilian officials
from nine Maoist-infested states who met in the national capital
earlier this month to review the anti-Maoist security operations
and progress of development works in backward areas of their
respective states.
West Bengal's Director General of Police Naparajit Mukherjee had
reportedly told the meeting that "though Maoists were facing
all-round reverses what was emerging were signs of a growing link
between them and Pakistan's ISI, with clear evidence in this
regard emerging from four districts of the state bordering
Bangladesh."
Murshidabad, West Midnapore, Purulia and Bankura are the four
districts, he was quoted as having said at the meet.
A worried Mukherjee is said to have informed of the "growing
nexus", which came to light after some Maoists were arrested from
these districts and they revealed about overground sympathisers of
leftwing extremists establishing ties with Pakistan's spy agency.
"Not just in West Bengal, elements having ISI links are joining
forces with overt outfits of Maoists. We have also witnessed the
participation of members of the banned SIMI in protest marches and
events organised by Maoists and their sympathisers in other parts
of the country, including at Jantar Mantar in Delhi (the venue of
all protests)," a government official, with knowledge of such
developments, told IANS here.
Mukherjee's revelations at the review meeting at the home ministry
came even as there has been a "remarkable improvement" in
countering leftwing extremists in West Bengal. It also came over a
fortnight after then Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) director
general K. Vijay Kumar last month appreciated the Mamata Banerjee
government for the "cooperation extended to the security forces'
operations" to counter the Maoists.
India's security and intelligence agencies have talked of a
possible link between ISI and Maoist sympathisers in recent
months, but Mukherjee's revelations are the first-ever made in
such definitive terms. They have also spoken about Maoist support
to terror groups such as those operating in Kashmir.
In recent months, Karnataka police have also talked of having
credible inputs of ISI using Indian mafia don Dawood Ibrahim, who
currently lives in Pakistan, and his aide Chhota Shakeel, to
establish links with Maoists in India.
(N.C. Bipindra
can be contacted at nc.bipindra@ians.in)
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