Top intelligence sources have confirmed that militants, mostly belonging to the ULFA, have entered Bangladesh and the ISI has already extended a helping hand to them. Even though the Bangladesh government denies it, reports say these insurgents have set up at least 25 new camps over the past one month. ``The biggest worry is that while ULFA leaders and cadre used to earlier take shelter in Bangladesh or stay for sometime on way to Pakistan, courtesy the ISI, the Assamese outfit has of late started establishing training camps. This is a dangerous trend,’’ officials said. The new rebel camps have come up close to the international border in Sylhet, Habibganj and Sherpur in Bangladesh. The presence of such rebel camps in Rangamati, Bandarban and Khagrachar of Chittagong district had been reported earlier. Throwing further light on the ISI link, recently-captured ULFA publicity secretary Mithinga Daimary has told the police that several senior ULFA leaders visited Pakistan in separate batches in 2002 and were trained in the use of explosives and time-programmed devices. The RBA had handed over Daimary to the Indian authorities last week and a local court had remanded him to five days of police custody. Daimary has reportedly even named the ULFA leaders who had flown to Pakistan last year. They include Ashanta Baghphukan and Raju Barua - both second-rank officials in the ULFA’s armed wing. Sources say that ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa and armed wing chief Paresh Barua have been travelling on Pakistani and Bangladeshi passports for several years.
| Before this is all over, one of the things that'll have to be done is to have the ISI dismantled. There's way too much Great Gaming going on, with way too little actual, coherent, thought behind it. |
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