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India must checkmate ISI influence in Nepal

India must checkmate ISI influence in Nepal

Author: M V Kamath
Publication: Sify News
Date:
URL: http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14207196

So Nepal is going to be a democracy and the king has 'surrendered.' Parliament has been resurrected and hopefully, things will work out and real peace restored in the only 'Hindu' nation on earth. The Government of India has been charged with not doing enough to restore normalcy in Nepal which is professedly `Hindu,' but in past years has had a love-hate relationship with India.

Delhi has to tread carefully in its treatment of its northern neighbour. It is all very well to be `Big Brother' but should know from experience that it is not an easy role to play. It can and often does invite resentment, which can prove to be destructive. But then we cannot ignore Nepal either.

Nepal's susceptibility in recent years has been fully exploited by our western neighbour, Pakistan, which has been seen actively to pursue its own strategy to drive a wedge between India and Nepal. Till recently it was China that supposedly was playing games in Nepal, especially after the protectorate of Sikkim merged with India. But China has now publicly accepted the merger. And now it is Pakistan that needs to be handled, considering that since 1980, ISI operatives have been functioning freely to disturb peace in India, using Pakistan's diplomatic missions in Dhaka, Colombo and even Delhi, as their bases of operation.

Kathmandu, according to reports, has been turned into an ISI centre with active help from the Muslim population on either side of the 1,664 kms long Indo-Nepal border, a fact that the media has to date rarely taken note of. Of the 1,664-km border, as many as 821 km lie in Uttar Pradesh, and of these, 391 km are spread across Poorvanchal's five districts with a total of 252 villages, of which 60 are Muslim-dominated.

The Indo-Nepal border being entirely porous, Pakistan intelligence agencies are reportedly having a grand time encouraging and supporting criminals, smugglers, saboteurs, fugitives and intelligence agents in their anti-national activities. Few policy-makers in India have taken meaningful note of this hard fact. According to Indian intelligence sources, there has been a phenomenal rise in Muslim population in Indian districts bordering Nepal. Thus, the percentage rise in Muslim population in Indian districts bordering Nepal. Thus, the percentage rise of Muslim population between 1981 and 1991 in Uttar Kashi has been of the magnitude of 196.44, in Chamoli 109.74, in Pithorgarh 43.45 and in Nainital 59.70.

Along with the growth of Muslim population, there has been a significant growth in the number of madrassas in these districts. According to Maloy Krishna Dhar, former joint director, Intelligence Bureau, India, in his book Fulcrum of Evil: ISI-CIA-A1 Qauda Nexus, these madrasssas are being used to teach anti-India hatred and Muslim separatism, in order to prevent the growing Muslim population from getting emotionally integrated with the rest of the Hindu population. At the same time, according to Dhar, the ISI of Pakistan has been active through its two subsidiaries the Joint Intelligence Miscellaneous (JIM) and Joint Intelligence X (JINX) to carry out systematic exploitation of Nepal's Muslim population.


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