Author: Press Trust of India
Publication: www.expressindia.com
Date: May 22, 2003
URL: http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=21437#compstory
Pakistan's ISI and al-Qaeda agents
are aiding militant outfit Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Asom active
in the state from various places in Bangladesh, intelligence sources said.
The ISI has activated a banned terrorist
outfit in Bangladesh - Sipah-e-Sahaba which is providing ideological and
combat training to the MULTA, a highly-placed intelligence official told
PTI.
The militants have also smuggled
sophisticated weapons into the state from a temporary headquarter of the
ISI set up at a mosque at Hathijan in Cox Bazaar of Bangladesh.
Two representatives of the MULTA
and Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami (HuJI), a Bangladesh-based terrorist outfit,
attended a meeting at the Hathijan mosque in March. Both the organisations
are members of the Islamic Manch set up at Ukhia in Cox Bazaar bordering
Myanmar, the sources said.
The Manch aims to establish a trans-national
Islamic federation comprising organisations in Bangladesh, Muslim majority
areas of North East and the Arakan hills of Myanmar.
Besides, it has been already established
that the ISI has been helping several insurgents' outfits like the Peoples'
Liberation Army (PLA), ULFA, NDFB, Dima Halam Daoga (DHD), NSCN(IM), Achik
National Volunteer Council (ANVC), Chakma National Liberation Front (CBLF)
in the North East.
The centre had recently submitted
a list of 155 terrorist training camps in Bangladesh and sought the deportation
of 85 insurgents of the northeast from that country.
