Author: Times News Network
Publication: The Times of India
Date: March 10, 2006
Ghulam Yazdani has been killed but at least
another 30 youth from Nalgonda district are suspected to have been trained
by terrorist groups.
With more evidence of the activities of Pakistan's
ISI coming to light from the district in the last two years, the police in
Nalgonda are trying to verify the movements of some youth.
This movement checking is especially being
done in Nalgonda town, Chityal, Narketpally, Gurrampode, Koppole, Munugode,
Huzurnagar, Bhongir and Devarakonda.
After intelligence alerts in the last few
months about increasing ISI activities in Nalgonda, the district police have
started collecting information about suspected youth. Especially under the
scanner are persons who have come into wealth suddenly.
"We have opened suspect sheets on about
30 youth. Profiles of identified persons, who have links with banned terrorists
outfits like LeT and Simi, have been prepared and we are keeping surveillance
if they are on bail or acquitted,'' Nalgonda superintendent of police Mahesh
Bhagwat told TOI.
"We are in touch with community elders
who have been asking parents to watch the movements of their wards,'' the
SP said.
Apart from suspected trained youth, the Nalgonda
district police have identified seven ISI activists, three Lashkar-e-Taiba
(LeT), nine Deendar Anjuman and two activists of Student Islamic Movement
of India (Simi) who have been involved in terrorist activities.
The police are on the hunt for two top activists
from Nalgonda district. One Shaik Ameer Ali of Kodad and one Syed Salauddin
Ahmed, who is believed to be a former all India president of Simi.
The youth are being recruited under the guise
of computer training and other vocational training within the country and
outside.
"Unfortunately, even some of the parents
do not know what their sons are doing,'' a police officer said. The Chityal
police of Nalgonda district arrested one Farooq in 2004.
He was a follower of Yazdani, who was killed
in an encounter near Delhi on Wednesday. Yazdani tried to push him into LeT.
Yazdani's brother Rabbani had been arrested
by Hyderabad city police in a sedition case last year.
The tentacles of the ISI came to light twelve
years ago when two terrorists were killed in an encounter. Rafi and Fasiuddin,
both belonging to Nalgonda district, died in an encounter in 1994.
Another key ISI activist Asgar Ali, who was
the prime accused in the Gujarat minister Haren Pandya murder case, was also
trained in Pakistan.
He made recruitments into the banned outfit
from Nalgonda and is presently in a Gujarat jail.