RAW and Afghan Agency Funding Pakistan Terrorism

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Sunday, 26 October 2008 15:59

Pakistani investigators have made a major breakthrough and uncovered several leads that link terrorists and criminals inside Pakistan to the Indian intelligence and the secret service of Hamid Karzai. An Indian explosives expert is leading groups of terrorists inside
Pakistan. The recruited suicide bombers have been brainwashed to believe they are on a religious duty. Others are plain criminals. The new information confirms the suspicions that the so-called `Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan' is heavily infiltrated by foreign spy agencies in Afghanistan and has little to do with the Afghan Taliban.

Three arrested members of a militant gang especially deputed by the
so-called `Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan' have disclosed that RAW has
been funding suicide bomb attacks in Pakistan and that the Indian
agency has funneled PKR 680 million through its contacts in the NDS,
the Afghan secret agency.

The gang of three persons has brazenly admitted that they belong to a
group of persons who had been deputed to `destabilize democratic
Pakistan' in order to create a confrontation with the Pakistani
military. They were told to carry out their activities under the
pretext of `enforcement of Shariah' in the country.

Operators of the Federal Investigations Agency [FIA], a Pakistani
intelligence agency, working beyond the call of their duty, came into
contact with a source ready for a tip-off against a reward. The tip-
off led to the arrest of Khurram Ishtiaq, Ghulam Mustafa and Shamim.
The persons had been working under Qari Hussain, second-in-command to
Baitullah Mehsud.

All of the three had been arrested on Aug. 13, 2008, while they were
on the prowl for a target. The militants had been arrested `red-
handed' as they possessed complete suicide kits, including two
jackets and 70 kilogram of explosives and detonators.

The accused were hardened militants and took a lot of time to break
and make confessions. They revealed that Qari Hussain had been
working to help three adjutants"”Farukh Usman alias Shahjee, Tayyab
alias Baba; Ustad, the trainer to destabilize the elected government.

Qari Hussain, the leader, prepares suicide bombers and dispatches
them throughout Pakistan. He also manages funds for the splinter
groups from RAW which works in collusion with the Afghan intelligence
agency NDS.

Farukh Usman works as Qari's deputy and runs the sub-setup to carry
out attacks in Lahore and Punjab in general. He was the mastermind of
suicide attacks on the FIA building, Naval War College, Model Town,
Lahore High Court and PAF bus in Sargodha, investigations have
revealed.

Tayyab alias Baba mainly deals with Rawalpindi/Islamaba d. He was the
man behind blasts at Aabpara Market and Marriott Hotel. The third
person known only as Ustad is an expert at making bombs. He is said
to be of Indian origin and he `works with a vengeance'. He is the man
who leads suicide bombers to the marked site of the blast.

The investigation revealed that there are two sub-teams: three
persons of one team work under Ustad. Two of the arrested persons"”
Shahmim Alam alias Sohail alias Kashif alias Uncle and Khurram
Ishtiaq alias Ibrahim"”have been active members of the TTP and worked
under direct guidance of Ustad.

Shamim was the facilitator. His task was to distribute funds to
suicide bombers at the behest of Qari Hussain and Tayyab alias Baba.
Being educated and a well-dressed civilian-look- alike, he was
assigned another important job of providing `reconnaissance of the
target area'.

He possesses the canny ability of mixing up with urbanites. Khurram
Ishtiaq alias Ibrahim is a well-trained militant. His job is to
harbor suicide bombers at a secret venue until they are led to the
area of operation to carry out the job. The third person of this
setup, Sajid, is a resident of Ali Khel, Waziristan. It is not
certain whether his services were `utilized' and in what way this was
done.

Another team which works under Farrukh Usman alias Shahjee includes
Bablu, Rehan, Ghulam Mustafa alias Asif (the third arrested person)
and Abdul Rahim. Bablu's assignment is to provide explosives at the
nick of time when the suicide bombers have been finally prepared to
perform the `sacred feat'.

Ghulam Mustafa and Abdul Rahim, both diehard terrorists, serve as
guards in the rear ensure that none of perpetrators develop cold feet
at the last minute and try to escape. In that case, there is only
one choice left and that too leads the would-be perpetrator to
heavens.

Former boss of the FIA, Tariq Lodhi, had recommended a reward and
commendation for the team that arrested these terrorists. But sources
say the FIA new chief, Shoaib Suddle, turned it down on the grounds
that agency operators just did their job and no reward should be
given for performing a duty.

The team members disclosed that they had arrested two prime targets
during the government of former President Pervez Musharraf and both
had a head money of $5 million each but the reward money was shared
by two other premier spy agencies instead of passing some of the
reward money to the individuals who had arrested them on their own
initiative.

The team has long been working on the militants but they got the
culprits apprehended through a middleman who was ready to divulge
more but "only if he was rewarded for the catch."

Afghan Money Helping Terrorists, Zardari Tells Boucher

On Oct. 19, President Asif Ali Zardari met U.S. assistant
undersecretary of state Richard Boucher and told him that terrorists
in the tribal areas of Pakistan are being funded from Afghanistan and
other countries. Zardari told Richard Boucher that the money
provided by Afghan drug traffickers was being used in terror related
incidents in Pakistan.

Drug smuggling through Pakistan had been eliminated, he said, adding
these smugglers were now funding terrorists for activities in the
country. "The responsibility now lies with the U.S. to take notice
and initiate action against these smugglers so that terrorist
networks in Pakistan can be dismantled," he stressed. Pakistan has
suffered more than any other country in the war on terror in terms of
loss of lives and property, he noted. All the resources are being
utilised to crush terrorists, he said.

He urged the U.S. to take steps to end terrorists' infiltration from
the Afghan side to the Pakistan tribal areas.

It is not clear how Mr. Boucher responded to the charge that
terrorism inside Pakistan is being supported from a U.S.-occupied
Afghanistan.

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Since its creation in 1968, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) has assumed a significant status in the formulation of Indian foreign policy. The doctrine of this spy agency is based on the
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Since its creation in 1968, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) has assumed a significant status in the formulation of Indian foreign policy. The doctrine of this spy agency is based on the principle of waging continuous secret battles through its invisible warriors.

RAW's agents have their presence in almost all regional countries,
implementing various tactics of psychological warfare. In this
context, M. K Dhar in his book, Open Secrets, India's Intelligence
Unveiled points out, "RAW's operations against the regional countries
are conducted with great professional skill and expertise, which
include the establishment of a huge network inside the target
countries. It has used propaganda, political dissent, ethnic
divisions, economic backwardness and criminal elements to foment
subversion and terrorism to weaken these states in conssonance with
Indian regional ambitions". However, application of these nefarios
designs vary from country to country as RAW's incursion in the
following countries proves.

Sikkim was the easiest prey for RAW and India annexed it in the mid-
1970s. The King of Bhutan has been reduced to the nominal position by
acting upon Indian dictates. Under a well-orchestrated plan of RAW,
on November 30 1988, 400 well-trained mercenaries infiltrated and
stormed the capital of Maldives. The Indian prime minister Rajiv
Gandhi had reacted promptly by sending about 1600 combat troops who
flushed out the attackers from the streets. In this way, Maldives was
totally brought under Indian influence.

Sri Lanka offers an unprecedented example of incursion by RAW's
invisible warriors as violence keeps on going in the country. In this
regard, Jain Commission revealed that since 1981, RAW established 30
training bases in India for clandestine support to the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE), some of whom were already on the pay
roll of this agency. Recently, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
has told Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa that rights and
safety of the Tamil community in Sri Lanka should be upheld.

For many years, India has openly been meddling in Nepal's internal
affairs by contriving internal strife through RAW to destabilise the
successive governments and prop up puppet regimes. In 2001, RAW had
played a key role in the massacre of nine members of the Royal family
of Nepal, when the former King tried to drift away from Indian hold.
In May this year, Indian-backed monarchy in Nepal was abolished after
a long struggle of the Maoists who won the elections in April 2008.

Now Nepal's leadership has forsaken India and has tilted towards
China whom New Delhi considers its strategic rival in Asia. But
despite the victory of the Maoists, Nepali Congress and the former
have been unable to reach a deal on power-sharing. Availing the
opportunity, RAW's agents who have penetrated in Nepali Congress and
various government departments are manipulating the situation so as
to create lawlessness to bring Nepal back to Indian influence.

In the recent past, RAW-supported Tibetans in Nepal have held
protests against China's rule over Tibet. In this regard, it is
notable that on March 10, 2008, anti-government protests by Buddhist
monks erupted in Tibet, flaring in nearby provinces. Dalai Lama, the
spiritual leader of Tibet who has lived in exile in India along with
his 120,000 followers has been tacitly encouraged by RAW's invisible
warriors "” enabling him to mobilise armed groups and international
support to create instability in Tibetan regions of China.

As regards Bagladesh, surprisingly, RAW has also created insurgency
force: the Shanti Bahini (Fighters for Peace). The agency has been
involved in training rebels of Chakma tribes (Hindu and Buddhists
tribesmen) and Shanti Bahini to carry out subversive activities in
Bangladesh. In August 17, 2005, RAW's elusive masterminds rocked
various districts of Bangladesh with 370 explosions. Indian security
agencies and media advised the central government to force Khaleda
Zia to clamp down on Islamic fundamentalist outfits.

So far as Pakistan is concerned, the country has become a special
target of Indian secret agency, RAW. In this connection,
fundamentalist Hindus give credit to Indira Gandhi who in the late
1970s gave RAW a new role to suit her Indira Doctrine, specifically
asking it to undertake covert operations in Pakistan. RAW mobilised
all its resources by exploiting political turmoil in East Pakistan in
1971, which it had created through its agents. Nevertheless, its
intrigues culminated in the dismembermet of Pakistan.

At present, New Delhi is reported to have established more than 200
foreign offices and training camps in Afghanistan where RAW's
intelligence officials, with the help of Khad and tactical support of
CIA, are doing their utmost to weaken Pakistan by sending weapons to
the separatist elements in Balochistan, and particularly to the
insurgents of Fata regions. In Wakhan, a religious madrassah of the
Indian Muslim clerics is functioning under the patronage of RAW and
Mossad. Recruits are mostly from Central Asia, bordering Afghanistan.
Thus, more than 20,000 ideologically motivated terrorists are
intermittently being infiltrated into troubled spots of Pakistan.
These miscreants also conducted a number of suicide attacks and bomb
blasts in Pakistan, killing a number of innocent persons and
personnel of the security forces. In Kurram Agency, RAW's Afghan
agents are also actively involved in the sectarian conflict.

Even in Afghanistan, acting upon the old policy of divide and rule,
it is owing to the tactics of RAW that Muslims are killing the
Muslims either they belong to Afghan forces or Taliban. The campaign
of RAW's invisible warriors sharpens as violence takes some other
dimensions in the case of Kashmir. As regards the current phase of
Indian state terrorism, it began on August 12, 2008 when Indian
forces killed Hurriyat Conference leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz in the
occupied Kashmir. At present, indefinite curfews, crackdowns and
killings by the Indian security forces keep on going against the non-
violent mass uprising of Kashmiris. More than 300 innocent people
have been killed by the Indian forces in the last few weeks.
Recently, hundreds of unidentified graves with at least 940 bodies
have been discovered in the Indian-held Kashmir.

One of the important roles of RAW is to thwart Sino-Pak strategic
relations. In this connection, fast-growing economic power of China
coupled with her rising strategic relationship with the Third World
has irked the eyes of Americans and Indians. Owing to this jealousy,
support of the US to India for a permanent seat in the UN Security
Council and US-India nuclear agreement are part of the American
desire to make India a major power to counterbalance China in Asia.

However, Beijing and Islamabad cannot neglect their common defence
when their adversaries are following a covert strategy. During the
visit of Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari to Beijing, Pakistan
and China on October 15 signed eleven agreements to enhance bilateral
cooperation in diverse sectors including energy, telecommunication,
trade, and space technology. China also agreed to supply two nuclear
reactors to Pakistan. China will also be able to use the Karakoram
Highway and ports of Gwadar (which links Central Asia) and Karachi
for transporting its goods to the Middle East and Africa. It is
mentionable that on April 18, 2008, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood
Qureshi had openly claimed that "some external forces were trying to
weaken Pak-China strategic ties by creating misunderstandings" . The
policy of interference in the internal affairs of neighbouring states
through RAW's invisible warriors to extend Indian regional hegemony
continues unabated.

The writer is author of the book: US vs Islamic Militants, Invisible
Balance of Power