Author: Pioneer News Service/Kolkata
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: November 18, 2002
Drilling a hole in the Bangladesh
Government's recent contention that ISI was not operating from its land,
the West Bengal police on Monday busted a major ISI network by arresting
four of its agents, including a woman, from Jalangi and Domkal police stations
of Murshidabad district.
The police on Monday morning picked
up Ziauddin, Ahmed Biswas, a fish vendor, his wife Ismat Ara Biwas, Golam
Murtaza alias Bapi, a PCO operator and Ghulam Gais from Jalnagi and Domkal.
Highly sensitive documents were recovered from them, district administration
sources said. A fifth person however, managed to give the cops the slip.
The league was remote-controlled
by one Amir alias Bhaisahab who in turn was guided by a Bara Bhaisahab
- a could be Pakistani diplomat based in a posh (Bonani) area of Dhaka,
said Murshidabad Superintendant of Police.
Amir had cultivated a resident agent
at Jalangi in Murshidabad who used to raise modules within the defence
forces and collect inputs pertaining to their movement and deployment,
the SP said. A telephone number 0088011809193 has been found from Ziauddin,
which he said belonged to his boss in Dhaka.
Various incriminating documents
that have been seized from the house of Ziauddin include a 25-point charter
of duty delineating various tasks to be performed by him.
Among other things recovered from
him are a map of Punes Indian Air Force station, list of names and locations
of the various heads of the departments in the Army, Air Force and their
telephone numbers, details of Army and Air Force units, papers related
to defence equipment in the Army etc, the police said.
According to Ziauddin, who has been
working for the ISI for the last 5 years, he was recruited by one Hasan
Habib of Jalangi at the behest of one Nurul Islam, a Bangladeshi national
and an ex-service man of Pakistani Army. Conceding that these agents concentrated
on recruiting operatives from the Signals department and computer data
operators, Ziauddin has confessed that he has already recruited various
security personnel like one Aufan Ukil of Indian Air Force and NK Hasan
Biswas in the Signal Regiment of the Army, the SP maintained.
Both Biwas and Ukil have accompanied
him to Dhaka, Ziauddin has said.
The operatives have been collecting
information about location and type of ammunition depots and the officers
who commanded them, details of various defence units, existing and those
which were to be raised and personal profiles of the generals of Indian
Army, the police said, adding Ismat Ara seems to be a very ambitious woman
who used to take the entire charge of Ziauddin and contact his Pak officials
when he was away from home.
