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Pak Saudi nexus spreading terror in North-East

Rakesh K SinghNew Delhi

Publication: The Pioneer Date: April 5, 2008. http://www.dailypio neer.com/ indexn12. asp?main_ variable=front%5Fpage&file_name=story3% 2Etxt&counter_img= 3

The Pak-Saudi intelligence alliance is pressurising the caretaker Government in Bangladesh to bolster the Islamist outfits andinsurgent groups with a view to create trouble in the North-EastStates. The caretaker Government in Bangladesh had taken somemeasures to contain the radical outfits as well as Indian insurgentgroups after it came to power.

Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has asked Saudi

authorities to limit the number of visas to Bangladeshi citizensworking there. According to estimates, about one millionBangladeshis are learnt to be engaged in various professions inSaudi Arabia and a limited number of visa to the workforce wouldhelp in pressurising the Bangladesh Government to fall in line, senior intelligence officials said. Weapons are now being procured by the Indian insurgent groupsfrom Chinese Kunming province bordering Myanmar. Intelligenceinputs had earlier indicated that the insurgent outfits are also gettingweapon supplies from Yunnan province of China. The arms alsocome through the Arkaan areas of Myanmar and from the sea off Cox's Bazaar to Chittagong, the officials said.

National Security Adviser MK Narayanan had recently stated in a TVinterview that Bangladesh was used as a springboard and PakistaniISI's direct involvement in exporting terrorism into India through

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Bangladesh and supply of arms is also quite obvious.

Police in Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Mumbai have arresteda number of Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami (HuJI) activists from Bangladeshinvolved in attacks on Indian targets in association with Pakistaniterrorist groups, Lashkar-e-Tayyeba and Jaish-e-Mohammad. The scale and sophistication of HuJI can be gauged from the fact thatthe United States last month declared it as an international terroristoutfit due to its involvement in international terrorism and its links withthe ISI and other Pakistan-based terrorist groups. On March 12 this year, two HuJI activists from Bangladesh, one of them identified as Mohammad Ali, were shot dead by the anti-terrorist

squad of Maharashtra police. They were in possession of twokilogram of RDX, a revolver, a pistol and fake Indian currency notes.They were moving around with a pre-determined plan to strikesensitive installations in Mumbai. Jaish-e-Mohammad, which has close links with Al Qaeda, has alsobeen found to be training the HuJI activists in Bangladesh. SheikhAbdullah Gul, a Pakistani Jaish operative, was in Bangladesh inNovember 2007 to train and recruit HuJI mujahideen to join the fightin Jammu & Kashmir and also in Afghanistan. Bangladesh is harbouring several militant leaders of Indian insurgentgroups like, the ULFA, NSCN (I/M), BODO outfits like NDFB and anumber of other insurgent groups active in Tripura. ArabindoRajkhowa, Chairman of the ULFA lives in Chittagong Hill tracts.Another senior leader Paresh Barua lives in Dhaka. While someBangladeshi agencies are giving them benign patronage, Chineseintelligence agencies have been supplying them with arms, senior intelligence officials said. Moreover, China with a view to strategicallyencircle India, is arming Bangladesh armed forces, especially theNavy, with weapons that can be considered offensive and targeting aparticular country with ship-to-ship, ship-to-air and ground-to-air missiles. Bangladesh has been part of the larger Chinese strategicenclosure policy against India, intelligence officials said here whileexplaining the rationale behind the tie-up between Pakistan, Chinaand Saudi authorities.

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China also had pressurised the BNP Government to award control of infrastructure projects like telecommunications, strategic Chittagong-Myanmar- Kuming highway, oil/gas exploration rights and portdevelopment projects through a combination of kickbacks and cheapmilitary supplies, the officials said.