Mahanta presents proof of
ISI mischief
Title: Mahanta presents proof
of ISI mischief
Author:
Publication: The Hindu
Date: April 7, 2000
The Assam Assembly today was told in detail the nature and extent
of ISI activities in the State by the Chief Minister, Mr. Prafulla
Kumar Mahanta.
The 16- page statement, first of its kind made by the State
Government, included a photocopy of the ULFA
“commander-in-chief”, Mr. Paresh Baruah’s fake Bangladesh
passport, issued in the name of Kamaruddin Zaman Khan, obtained
with the help of an official of the Pakistan High Commission in
Dhaka.
There was another photocopy of a Urdu letter written by Mr.
Fasiullah Hussaini, a Pakistani spy arrested here last August, and
addressed to Mr. Ashraf Jahangir Qazi, Pakistan High Commissioner
in Delhi, requesting him to obtain Rs. 3 lakhs from the
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen chief for defending his (Fasiullah’s) case.
Mr. Mahanta said the State police had collected sufficient
evidence to prove that the ISI was actively fomenting violence and
terrorism. The Pakistani espionage and subversion agency had a
six-fold objective: promoting indiscriminate violence in the State
by providing support to local militant outfits; creating new
militant outfits for instigating violence between ethnic and
religious groups; supplying sophisticated arms and explosives to
various terrorist groups; causing damage to oil pipelines and
other vital installations and communication lines; promoting
fundamentalism and militancy among local Muslim youth by preaching
‘jehad’; and carrying on an inflammatory propaganda to
heighten communal tension between Hindus and Muslims.
The Chief Minister named 11 Muslim militant outfits which are
active in Assam: the Muslim United Liberation Front of Assam (MULFA),
the Muslim Liberation Tigers of Assam (MULTA), the Islamic
Liberation Army of Assam (ILAA), the United Muslim Liberation
Front of Assam (UMLFA), the United Reformation Protest of Assam (URPA),
the People’s United Liberation Front (PULF), the Muslim
Volunteer Force (MVF), the Adam Sena, the Islamic Sevak Sangha (ISS),
the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and the Harkat-ul-jehad.
During the last two years, the police had arrested 101 MULTA
activists and 60 persons belonging to other outfits.
Some top militants arrested were found to have been involved in
activities of madrassas and mosques. In order to ensure that these
religious institutions were not maligned wholesale, only Muslim
police officers were deputed for inquiry there.
The Chief Minister provided thumbnail sketches of the activities
of 17 arrested Muslim militants along with their photographs and
gave details of their stay in Bangladesh and Pakistan and the type
and quantity of explosives brought by them.
The police also seized a number of audio cassettes of “highly
linflammatory and communally sensitive” speeches by Maulana
Masood Azhar circulating in different parts of the State, Mr.
Mahanta told the House.
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