05-12-2005, 12:50 AM
<b>Pakistani ISI using Habib Bank to fund Maoist-Naxal movement </b>
PERVEZ IQBAL SIDDIQUI TIMES NEWS NETWORK
[ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2004 02:51:21 AM ]
LUCKNOW:
Recent intelligence reports of strong Maoist-Naxalite nexus has posed new threat to the internal security of India as a whole and that of five statesâ Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Uttaranchal, West Bengal and Sikkimâin particular. These states touch the Himalayan kingdom along a 1751 km border. The development means trouble in future and the Union government has taken a serious note of this, said Union minister of state for home Sri Prakash Jaiswal while talking to TOI on Friday night. Central and state intelligence agencies have recently submitted reports on camps along the border to train suicide bombers and women, digging of trenches, procuring arms from Peopleâs War Group (PWG) outfits in Andhra Pradesh and plundering of forest wealth from India.
<b>What had actually caught the attention of Delhi were reports suggesting ISI backing to Maoist through "friendly" business relations between the Habib Bank in Pakistan and Himlayan Bank in Nepal. Habib Bank is identified as a funding agency of the ISI.</b> "The recent past, say last two years, have witnessed excessive and aggressive intrusions of Maoists into India and the situation is so grim that even the Nepalese of Indian origin have begun migrating back to India," Jaiswal said
PERVEZ IQBAL SIDDIQUI TIMES NEWS NETWORK
[ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2004 02:51:21 AM ]
LUCKNOW:
Recent intelligence reports of strong Maoist-Naxalite nexus has posed new threat to the internal security of India as a whole and that of five statesâ Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Uttaranchal, West Bengal and Sikkimâin particular. These states touch the Himalayan kingdom along a 1751 km border. The development means trouble in future and the Union government has taken a serious note of this, said Union minister of state for home Sri Prakash Jaiswal while talking to TOI on Friday night. Central and state intelligence agencies have recently submitted reports on camps along the border to train suicide bombers and women, digging of trenches, procuring arms from Peopleâs War Group (PWG) outfits in Andhra Pradesh and plundering of forest wealth from India.
<b>What had actually caught the attention of Delhi were reports suggesting ISI backing to Maoist through "friendly" business relations between the Habib Bank in Pakistan and Himlayan Bank in Nepal. Habib Bank is identified as a funding agency of the ISI.</b> "The recent past, say last two years, have witnessed excessive and aggressive intrusions of Maoists into India and the situation is so grim that even the Nepalese of Indian origin have begun migrating back to India," Jaiswal said