A new game plan

To further activate a co-ordination between the North east militant groups and jehadis forces, the Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Directorate General of Forces intelligence (DGFI) has forged an alliance of the North-East based underground organizations under one umbrella, divulged the Inspector Genral of the Border Security Force (BSF) of the the Assam, Meghalya and Manipur frontier. Divulging about the new developments, where the ISI has assured the militant groups from Assam, Manipur, Nagaland, Meghalya and Tripura óf all logistic and financial  supports’, the BSF IG Jyotiprakash Sinha said that three months ago ISI had held a meeting in Bangladesh to put its plan into action.

“The ISI had held a separate meeting in a border town of Bangladesh with some “key personalities” of the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), militants from Nagaland and Manipur, stated Sinha, adding, “a similar meeting was also convened with the jehadi groups to intensify their activities in the region by intruduing through Assam and Meghalya border”. 

Quoting the intelligence reports about the ISI promised to extend all type of support but stressed that the northeast based militant organizations must come under one umbrella, the BSF IG stated ‘the stress of the ISI is on the need for the militant organizations to come under a common umbrella to facilitate easy coordination and action. 

According to Sinha, ULFA was trying to forge a link with Nepal’s Maoist’s group. He said according to intelligence inputs from other security agencies ULFA was interested in establishing links with the Maoist so that it can use Nepal as a “buffer zone.”

Over the years, Bangladesh intelligence agency DGFI has been very active in the North-Eastern region trying to recruit Muslim youths to train them in subversive activities in Bangladesh and pumped them back to the region to carry out violence. Sinha revealed that recently fourteen youths belonging to Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Assam (MULTA) went to Bangladesh for training in arms and explosives. According to Sinha, these youths have now entered India’s northeast through the porous border to carry out subversive activities all over the country. MULTA is one of the 14 Islamic terrorist outfits operating in Assam. 

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