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The Monstrous Face of ISI First Edition: 2000 (Real Story Behind the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency of Pakistan) First Reprint: 2002 Second Reprint: 2004 Copyright © Author The views expressed in this book are of the author and have nothing to do with the discharge of his official duties. BHURE LAL ISBN : 81-7220-124-9 Price: Rs. 375.00 Published by: Siddharth Publications 10 DSIDC Scheme-II, Okhla Industrial Area Phase-II, New Delhi-110020. Phone: 26388005 Printed at: SIDDHARTH PUBLICATIONS Arun & Rajive Pvt. Ltd., 10 DSIDC Scheme-II, Okhla Industrial 10, DSIDC Scheme II, Okhla Industrial Area Phase II Area Phase-II, New Delhi-110020. Phone: 26388006, 26388007 New Delhi - 110 020 Contents Preface v Introduction xiii Growth and Role of ISI 1 Organisation of ISI 17 Ideology 22 Modus-Operandi, Strategy and Tactics of ISI Operations 24 This book is dedicated India and ISI 50 to the martyrs of Kargil war Organisations Supported by ISI 106 whose unparalleled sacrifices for the integrity, prestige and honour of the country The Fundamentalist Groups 111 have allowed us to breathe in free air. Taliban: Students of Religious Schools 118 Osama Bin Laden 124 Pak Terrorism: A Talibanised State 129 Kargil 138 Remedies 149 Annexures 157 References 182 Fundamentalism 183 General Parvez Musharraf “Between Devil and the Deep Sea” 193 vi Preface Preface Intelligence agencies have also underscored the need to act against the hundreds of “pushers” at Chhattrapati Shivaji International Airport. These middlemen, helped by their “contacts” in SB-II’s ISI hand and Pakistan’s nefarious designs can be seen in immigration branch, offer hassle-free entry to illegal every area of conflict in the country, as well as a broadening immigrants, escorting clients right up to the aircraft without presence in organised crime. Covert activity in the North- being stopped or questioned. This, it seems, has been going East, with the active co-operation of local militant groups, on for quite some time, but the threat to national security is intensifying. For decades, the entire Terai region bordering has been realised only now. Nepal in Uttar Pradesh has been a haven for smugglers and Pakistan’s ISI has done what its Army can never do. Its other organised criminal elements. During the height of the tentacles spread from Gujarat to Assam, from Kashmir to Punjab terrorist campaign, this region was progressively Kerala. It can trigger blasts in remote areas, fuel communal taken over by the militants; hundreds of makeshift riots in peaceful cities and blow up railway stations Gurudwaras sprung up all along the major routes from anywhere it wishes to. It can spread terror wherever, Nepal – transit points for terrorists moving in and out of the whenever it wants. country with their apparatus of murder. After the militancy The ISI agents are motivated enough to carry out the in Punjab was crushed, mosques and madarasas, with the orders of their masters in Islamabad either by financial same purpose, mushroomed in the same area. Their allurements or religion or intimidation. development and movements around them are well The ISI has taken more than 28 years to implement its documented in intelligence records. plan of action. After the 1971 bifurcation of erstwhile Most of the intelligence agencies had predicted an Pakistan into two nations, the ISI, which works under the escalation of subversive activities not only in J&K, but also overall control of the Pak Army, has been working with the in the North-East, as also the extension of the ISI’s influence sole objective of avenging the defeat and balkanise India. in Bihar, Orissa and some of the southern States. The plan was conceived by Zia-ul-Haq and was called Pakistan sponsored terrorism in India had claimed Operation Topac. almost 35,000 lives – 30,000 civilians and over 5,000 security The objectives of Operation Topac were: a) to disintegrate personnel. That it had been responsible for sending hundreds India; b) to utilise the spy network to act as an instrument of tonnes of explosives into this country – RDX seizures of sabotage; c) to exploit porous borders with the Nepal and alone amounted to 51,810 kg and that over Rs. 65,000 crore Bangladesh to set up bases and conduct operations. had already been spent in fighting this menace. The strategy of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) It was indicated that after the Kargil situation comes in to use the narcotic smuggling network at the Indo-Pak border control, the proxy war through the ISI may continue. for pushing arms and explosives into India is causing Intelligence agencies estimate that some 10,000 concern to security agencies. Pakistanis have stayed on in India after the expiry of their The ISI was organised, trained and supported by the visas. CIA in the wake of Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The CIA Preface vii viii Preface turned a blind eye to ISI indulgence of Narcotics trade, accentuating differences in all the diverse issues in the focus consciously promoted by Gen. Zia through the ISI. of the national psyche. The Mandir/Masjid, North-East, The term narco-terrorism – terrorism was funded by drug Tamil Nadu, Punjab, J&K and Naxalism have to a large money. Ultimately it leads to a situation wherein a parallel extent, been blown up by the ISI. form of administration is set up to govern and where society The ISI has successfully made inroads into both sides of and the State itself are held to ransom. The State is forced the divide. On the one hand, it has fomented Hindu to ensure supply of weapons and other expenditure. The fundamentalism, and on the other hand Sikh CIA report lists Lahore, Bhai Pheru, Sheikhpura and Butapur fundamentalism, it was, thus, natural that the ISI perpetrated as the major centres for drug trafficking into India. Sohail emotive issues like the Babri Masjid/Ram Janambhoomi Zia Bhatt, a Member of Parliament and an extremely well issue. connected Kashmiri was operating heroin gangs in Lahore It divided the Indian population on communal lines, and Haji Iqbal Baig carried on with the task as he “co- caused tremendous damage to the Indian polity, both operated with the ISI in the programme to assist anti-India internally and externally and brought India to the very brink Sikh militants in their battle against New Delhi.” On Indian of a civil war. side they patronised the criminals to bring in weapons and In the South it has links with the LTTE. In the North it narcotics. has established a base in Nepal, which is presently being Narcotics has become the foundation of organised crime. used to smuggle drugs and terrorists into India. In the North- No other commodity can generate the kind of money which East, the Bangladesh border offers ideal territory for Pakistan can literally challenge the might of State power. The tactics to manage its destabilising operations as also co-ordination used by smugglers to bend the State machinery to their will with the drug traffickers from Burma to the Golden Crescent. is simple. All kinds of illegal activity from distribution of These areas are now being developed. territory to pickpockets, to extortion, flesh trade and The ISI has gone further to link up at national level with bootlegging are effectively controlled by the narco-traders. all kinds of militant organisations to include the People War The ISI has infiltrated many organisations of the country. Group in Andhra Pradesh, the LTTE in Tamil Nadu, Bodo Front organisations have been established, which are Security Force in Assam, the NSCN in the North-East. exclusively backed by ISI and funded by questionable Jane’s Defence Weekly reported that a quarter to a half means. For example, organisations such as the Islamic Sevak of Taliban manpower and equipment originates in Pakistan Sangh and SIMI. Through these organisations training is under the ISI, Pakistan’s equivalent of the CIA. Two of the provided in use of weapons and explosives for subversive three camps bombed by the U.S. were training sites for activities. Pakistani rebels headed for Kashmir. The ISI sought active co-operation of the People’s War Militancy in Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, has even Group and the LTTE and has launched various kinds of targeted peaceful Himachal Pradesh by pumping in the joint operations. The underworld was utilised by these fortunes earned from poppy trade and was also attempting agencies for obvious mutual benefits. to create a communal wedge in Jammu and Doda areas. The ISI sought to create and has been successful in With huge profits from poppy cultivation in Pak-Afghan Preface ix x Preface border, ISI pumped in several crores to revive the dying ISI has moved its bases and militant training camps close militancy. to the Line of Control (LoC). The sources said Lashker-e-Toiba militants had also been He said that around 40 militant training camps, besides asked to move into the higher reaches of Jammu to foment ISI bases, had been established near the LoC to step up communal trouble in the region and increase their presence efforts to infiltrate ultras into Jammu & Kashmir after the along the Indo-Pak border. passes get cleared of snow. The militants are mainly pushed in by the Special (i) ISI has directed the militants to refrain from shooting Operational Intelligence Unit of the ISI. in public and take utmost care not to invite public The modus operandi involved in the infiltration – the wrath. intruders are generally divided into groups, each comprising (ii) The ISI has also directed militants to target Jammu three or four persons. The operation is carried out during city after establishing bases in the two States.

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