NEW DELHI, Nov. 4: Amid the presence of multiple terror organisations in Assam, security agencies lack hardcore informers and are mostly dependent on half-baked “intercepted” messages of Bangladesh police wireless.
This has become all the more complex as, according to sources, Pakistan’s ISI has turned hyper-active in the region and has deputed a senior military officer of Lieutenant General rank to oversee operations in Assam and other Northeastern states.
Besides seeking adequate intelligence manpower, the Assam government had suggested sometime back that intelligence personnel both from the IB and RAW and various state governments need to be modernised. Reports intercepted along Bangladesh border said the ISI has also deployed a colonel rank Pakistani army official “under diplomatic cover” in the cultural wing in Pakistani Embassy to work from Dhaka.
Recent feedback also said with tacit support from the ISI, Assam-based Muslim Liberation Tigers of Assam (MLTA) has nominated about 150 cadre for training in guerrilla warfare from Naga and Manipuri militants. The ISI has also identified “porous infiltration channels” along Assam-Bangladesh and Meghalaya-Bangladesh border in Cachar and Karimgaj districts of Assam and along Dawki in Meghalaya besides certain vulnerable pockets in Bangladesh.
Bashkandi area of Silchar in Cachar district of Assam has been ear-marked as a key procurement hub of illegal arms even as Islamist military camps are being set up in Cox Bazar and Ershadnagar (Rongpur) in Bangladesh and in Hojai in lower Assam. Meanwhile, following the last week’s recent serial blasts in Assam that killed nearly 80 people besides wounding about 400 others, the Union home ministry has convened a special meeting tomorrow to discuss the worsening law and order situation in the Northeast. n SNS
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