ISI design to change North-East demography

Influx and propping up fundamentalist outfits with a dream of Islamic homeland are the two-pronged strategy of the design.

A nefarious design has been undertaken by the Pakistani ISI to bring a change in the demographic composition of the North-East. Encouraging illegal influx from Bangladesh and propping up fundamentalist militant outfits with a dream of Islamic homeland are the two-pronged strategy of the design.
Infiltration problem in the North-East has already become grave. The flow of Bangladeshis crossing over into India is going on virtually unrestricted. The infiltrators generally target Assam and West Bengal as in these two states that they can easily merge with the general populace because of similarity in physical structure and language.

According to Deputy Prime Minister L. K. Advani an estimated 20 million illegal aliens from Bangladesh are now in India. Some ten million of them have made Assam and West Bengal their home. But Bangladesh has always denied that there were any emigrants from there to India.

There is enough indication to show that the ISI of Pakistan is behind ‘the cross border movement’ of these Bangladeshis. The infiltrators are used a cover to push Islamist militants. The recent spurt in the activities of fundamentalist militant outfits in Bangladesh has had its effects in Assam too.

Cadres of the Harkat-u-Mujahedin, for example, have admitted being sheltered in Bangladesh before being trained in Pakistan to carry out subversive activities in Assam. Islamic hardliners in Bangladesh are also supplying arms and offering logistical support to Muslim militant organisations operating in Assam.
Several militant groups have been set up in Assam and the North-East with the aim to establish an Islamic homeland, according to a startling disclosure by some nabbed militants. ISI is directly supporting the Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Asom (MULTA) to mobilise Muslim youth espousing ‘jehad’. The Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami is also trying to gain a foothold in Assam. The outfit is linked with the dreaded Al Qaeda.

Sources with ears to the ground point to another phenomenon, which, they believe, is a cause for concern. The border belt has seen an unusual growth of madrassas. The ISI is reportedly using them to fan anti-Indian feelings among the populace. The sources said that despite the increased vigil by the security forces along the international border, there are still large sections that are virtually impossible to monitor. The chars in the reverine areas facilitate easy infiltration, more so as the inhabitants there do not easily cooperate with the security forces.
       
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