SILCHAR, Aug 27: Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, while talking to journalists returning with him from the G8/G5 Summit, might gloat over his startling revelations that ISI chief Shuja Pasha “has been exchanging notes” with top Indian diplomats and military personnel in Islamabad on progress with bringing the 26/11 plotters to book, the notorious Pakistani agency continues with its diabolical plot to foment trouble in the Northeast and across the country.Intelligence agencies have gathered enough evidences recently to indicate the involvement of ISI in destabilizing Northeast and subvert the economy of the country as a whole. “Operation dirty money” has become an everyday phenomenon. Fake Indian currency notes of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 are in wide circulation and reaching the towns and villages of the region in bulks through Bangladesh.
In this operation are involved D-Gang and the infamous ISI agent code named Batki based in Dubai. Interrogations of some operatives have come out with the facts that after being printed in Karachi, Quetta and Peshawar, the forged notes are sent via Kathmandu and Dhaka to the eastern region. The whole operation is monitored by Batki.
According to Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) of the Government of India, ISI uses high quality imported security papers to print fake notes which look alike Indian currencies. How deep is the menace can well be understood by the fact that out of every five notes, one is fake. Crores of rupees of such notes have flooded the markets. It has penetrated banks and ATMs as well. The professionally printed notes are smuggled by planes, trains and buses. Excellent papers and printed quality with the details and the signature of current governor leave no reason for suspicion about their genuineness.
Even cadres of militant outfits have become active to spread the dragnet. On July 28, ISI operative identified as Anorul Haque, a resident of Chittagong in Bangladesh who ran a fake currency racket in Asom was arrested along with four of his accomplices in Tezpur. He was involved in a number of terrorist activities. He was also responsible for supplying IED and explosives to NDFB before the recent bomb blast in Sonitpur in which an army colonel and a jawan were killed. He was recruited by ISI in 1995.
Lashkar-e-Toiba talent scout Md Umer Madani who was held in Delhi early June was being hunted by Kolkata police for his involvement in fake currency racket operating in West Bangal. Two persons picked up with fake notes had earlier revealed that Madani was their associate. Mohibur Rahman and Tafezzel Hussain were nabbed from Beadon Street in May. ISI is also playing second fiddle to Islamic outfit People’s United Liberation Front (PULF) based in Manipur. According to intelligence agencies, the outfit floated in 1993 by local Pangal Muslims of Manipur under Azad Khan has been plotting for the creation of an Islamic State in Northeast. It could gain support of ULFA, MULTA of Asom and other Islamic groups based in Bangladesh and Pakistan.
With the arrest of one of its kingpins Abdul Noor and two other members of PULF in July form West Imphal district and their grilling by intelligence sleuth came out the direct support of ISI in extending logistic and material help to it for carving out a separate Islamic state as a part of grand design of greater Bangladesh. The Pakistani trained Noor confessed how he had been working as a conduit to recruit Muslim youths for their training in Pakistan and their induction in the outfit to bolster up its man and striking power.
It was also revealed that Noor had received necessary cover and back up from the Director General Field Forces Intelligence of Bangladesh with active support from Pakistan. ISI and Bangladesh links became more evident on July 17 when a group of seven PULF militants including its chief Abdur Rahman and his wife Samina Akhtar were apprehended in Agartala by Tripura police. During interrogation they admitted that they had gone to Bangladesh in March and crossed over to Tripura on their way to Manipur. It might be recalled in December 2006, some PULF cadres with a group of LeT terrorists were arrested in Delhi. (Source - Sentinel Assam)