India has reason to postpone SAARC summit

International Relations experts are blaming Bangladesh's failure to prosecute the political terrorists and the Nepal King's coup responsible for the postponment of the 13th SAARC summit for the second time. ''Killing of former Finance Minister on the eve of the SAARC summit, specially after last year's grenade attack on former Prime Minister Sk Hasina, is a definite case of deteriorating law and order situation in the neigbouring country and Bangladesh has failed to make any breakthrough in both the cases,'' said a senior professor of International Relations.

He said the coup by the King in Nepal to dislodge a democratic government could not be seen either as mere bilateral matters.''This kind of sudden change will definitely affect several countries in the region because of sudden vested interest involved in it and likely spurt in violence by the Maoist rebels, active in several countries in the region,'' he pointed out. Terrorism and its sponsors were one of the main issues on the agenda of the 13th SAARC summit and India was scheduled to create pressure on both Pakistan and Bangladesh for the two countries' continuous support to terrorists, who had been fomenting touble in India. The speculation that India is not too eager to meet Pakistan on the sidelines of the SAARC either on peace process or on Kashmir issue is somewhat wild since Pakistan had been raising the Kashmir issue as a condition for peace in all kinds of platforms, sources revealed. It may be noted here that the role of Pakistan's intelligence Agency ISI in Bangladesh and Nepal was detrimental to India's effort to foster economic growth and development through mutual cooperation.

The way the ISI is using both Bangladesh and Nepal territories for creating trouble in India cannot be a mere bilateral issue between India and Bangladesh and India and Nepal. It's obviously something more than that. According to official sources ISI had already established two of its major bases in Kathmandu and Dhaka, which had now become an open secret.''It has been proved beyond doubt that the ISI has been helping the terrorists belonging to several zihadi groups and the Indian rebels to get shelter and training in Bangladesh with active cooperation from a section of Bangla civil and military officials and some fundamentalist political parties,'' officials pointed out.

One of the main targets of the ISI and the fundamentalist parties and groups was the Opposition Awami League, which was responsible for restoring secularism in Bangladesh Constitution.  So far as Nepal is concerned, the official said, ISI would try to fully utilise the opportunities arising out of the King's bloodless coup to reunite and strengthen its base in Kathmandu. Moreover, the Maoists operating in Nepal, India and Bangladesh had already formed an operational co-ordination committee for intensifying their operations in the three countries. Besides, India has reasons to believe that the Maoist rebels are getting indirect help from the ISI through some Indian insurgent groups like the ULFA. 

The interrogation of three senior ULFA leaders after the Operation ''Flush Out'' by the Royal Bhutan Army had revealed that these leaders were taken to Pakistan and then to Afghanisthan by the ISI for training on warfare before they were given charge of running camps in Bhutan

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