| Despite India's claim that Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) agency has maintained a presence in Jammu and Kashmir to provide support to militant groups, Kashmir accounts for the least number of ISI agents arrested. Statistics showed that no ISI agents had been arrested in Kashmir in 2001 and 2003, with one arrest each in 2002 and 2004. However Sriprakash Jaiswal, Minister of State for Home Affairs, presented statistics to the Lok Sabha (India's lower house of parliament) on Tuesday, claiming that 19 ISI agents had been arrested in 2003, down from 91 in 2002. Jaiswal said that 27 ISI agents had been arrested up to December 15 of the current year. Jaiswal said that West Bengal topped this year's list of ISI arrests, with seven agents being apprehended. He said that five Pakistani intelligence agents had been arrested in Rajasthan, four each in New Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, two each in Andhra Pradesh and Uttaranchal and one each in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Madhya Pradesh. |