Author: Agencies
Publication: The Economic Times
Date: March 2, 2008
URL: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/Pakistani_fundamentalist_groups_try_infiltration_from_Bangladesh/articleshow/2830483.cms
With the western border getting fenced and
movement during winter becoming impossible due to snow in the Kashmir valley,
the outlawed anti-India groups based in Pakistan are now trying to enter India
through the comparatively easy porous border with Bangladesh, said Additional
Director General (ADG) of Border Security Force (BSF), U K Bansal.
Speaking at a press conference at Tripura
Frontier Headquarters of BSF at Salbagan here, ADG Bansal said there are reports
that Muslim fundamentalist and terrorist organisations had contacted elements
in Bangladesh to infiltrate into India.
ADG Bansal was here to review the security
scenario in the wake of recently concluded assembly election in the state.
He expressed concern over the growing network
of fundamentalist groups in Bangladesh.
The ADG said intelligence inputs hinted at
the presence of jihadi elements in neighbouring Bangladesh and expressed concern
about the inroads of the radical elements into the region.
Bansal said that there are intelligence reports
that efforts are made by anti-national elements of all varieties including
Muslim fundamentalist are trying to enter India from Bangladesh side.
However, he added that it was not necessary
the Muslim fundamentalist groups belonged to Bangladesh but the Bangladesh
border was used by them. They belonged to other nations like Chechnya, East
European countries, North Africa, Middle East and so on.
Indian Intelligence agencies say that some
insurgent groups in the northeastern region have links with Pakistan's Inter
Service Intelligence (ISI) agency.
The ADG took note of the security arrangement
for the ensuing assembly elections of the remaining two northeastern states,
Meghalaya and Nagaland, in which BSF will be deployed for ensuring a peaceful
poll.
Bansal said that the relation between the
BSF and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) has improved recently and there are some incidents
when BDR has taken action on BSF inputs of presence of some Indian northeast
region insurgent groups active in Bangladeshi territory.
