10-30-2007, 12:50 AM
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Pioneer.com
Rakesh K Singh | New Delhi
Latest intelligence assessments suggest a shift in Pakistan's strategy of exporting terror by seeking a "united political voice in Jammu and Kashmir and extend the arc of violence to the hinterland."
The terror training camps run by the Pakistan-based Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) are being 'rationalised' in order to provide multiple nodes of recruitment and third country bases to the outfits for perpetrating terror across the country.Â
Alternative routes of infiltration through Nepal, Bangladesh, Iran and Kuwait are currently in use by the terror outfits and Sri Lanka and Maldives are being explored for future use. Countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar and Oman are also being used for recruitment by the outfits as part of the rationalisation process.
<b>"A shift in Pakistan's strategy was also apparent in Kashmir, wherein it sought a united political voice in its favour, while extending the arc of violence to the hinterland. This was carefully orchestrated to ensure deniability, concealment of infrastructure, dispersion of support mechanism and creation of separate modules," </b>said Intelligence Bureau (IB) Special Director Rajiv Mathur at a recent conference of top police and intelligence officials here and added that attempts were afoot to resurrect Sikh militancy in Punjab.
He told the top cops at the DGPs/IGPs conference, "To give effect to their strategy, alternative routes of infiltration using countries like Nepal, Bangladesh, Iran and Kuwait had come to notice and Sri Lanka and Maldives were being explored for future use. Training camps were being relocated and revitalised."
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<b>"Countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar and Oman were also being used for recruitment," he said, adding "large-scale use of satellite phones and internet were also reported"</b> from the terrorist outfits operating out of Pakistan against India.
"In terms of targets there was a shift from security/political targets to economic and iconic targets," he said.
Warning that "there are attempts to resurrect Sikh militancy in Punjab," he said "efforts are afoot to precipitate communal violence and exploit existing social and religious faultlines."
He further said that Lashkar-e-Tayyeba had also used the coast for infiltration.
"Militant operations were routed through multiple countries, third country bases used for coordination, multiple recruitment nodes getting dispersed and transit routes multiplying were all matters of utmost importance," National Security Adviser MK Narayanan had said at the high-profile annual conference organised by the IB and addressed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil.
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Pioneer.com
Rakesh K Singh | New Delhi
Latest intelligence assessments suggest a shift in Pakistan's strategy of exporting terror by seeking a "united political voice in Jammu and Kashmir and extend the arc of violence to the hinterland."
The terror training camps run by the Pakistan-based Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) are being 'rationalised' in order to provide multiple nodes of recruitment and third country bases to the outfits for perpetrating terror across the country.Â
Alternative routes of infiltration through Nepal, Bangladesh, Iran and Kuwait are currently in use by the terror outfits and Sri Lanka and Maldives are being explored for future use. Countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar and Oman are also being used for recruitment by the outfits as part of the rationalisation process.
<b>"A shift in Pakistan's strategy was also apparent in Kashmir, wherein it sought a united political voice in its favour, while extending the arc of violence to the hinterland. This was carefully orchestrated to ensure deniability, concealment of infrastructure, dispersion of support mechanism and creation of separate modules," </b>said Intelligence Bureau (IB) Special Director Rajiv Mathur at a recent conference of top police and intelligence officials here and added that attempts were afoot to resurrect Sikh militancy in Punjab.
He told the top cops at the DGPs/IGPs conference, "To give effect to their strategy, alternative routes of infiltration using countries like Nepal, Bangladesh, Iran and Kuwait had come to notice and Sri Lanka and Maldives were being explored for future use. Training camps were being relocated and revitalised."
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<b>"Countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar and Oman were also being used for recruitment," he said, adding "large-scale use of satellite phones and internet were also reported"</b> from the terrorist outfits operating out of Pakistan against India.
"In terms of targets there was a shift from security/political targets to economic and iconic targets," he said.
Warning that "there are attempts to resurrect Sikh militancy in Punjab," he said "efforts are afoot to precipitate communal violence and exploit existing social and religious faultlines."
He further said that Lashkar-e-Tayyeba had also used the coast for infiltration.
"Militant operations were routed through multiple countries, third country bases used for coordination, multiple recruitment nodes getting dispersed and transit routes multiplying were all matters of utmost importance," National Security Adviser MK Narayanan had said at the high-profile annual conference organised by the IB and addressed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil.
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