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Terrorist Training Camps in Pakistan & Revelations by Terror
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Terrorist Training Camps in Pakistan & Revelations by Terrorists:
Indian and Foreign Sources
THE FOLLOWING has been compiled by the Indian Embassy in Washington and posted on the internet. Extremely useful for it highlights the factual position on Pakistani sponsorship of terrorism against India, in the states of Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. The information although slightly dated, is relevant particularly in the context of Pakistan's role as a 'front line ally' in the war against terrorism.
Terrorist Training Camps in Pakistan: US House Republican Research Committee's Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, 1 February 1993:
Since the summer of 1991, the ISI has further increased its direct involvement in the training and supporting of Kashmiri Islamist terrorists. Brig. Mohammed Salim, an ISI officer, is in charge of training and supporting Kashmiri Islamists. By 1992, the ISI was operating 13 permanent, 18 temporary and 8 joint training camps for Kashmiris in Pakistan Azad Kashmir alone. Some 3,700 Kashmiri fighters were located in those camps by the summer of 1992, including terrorists who cross over from Indian Kashmir. Thus, in the spring/summer of 1992, the ISI established new training camps for Islamist terrorists where they are trained on the latest weapons.
The Director of this effort is ISI Brig. Javed, a veteran of the Afghan support effort. A special research council of Islamabad, including military and ISI officers, determines which groups and individuals are eligible to receive assistance, what type, and to what extent.
Curriculum in Training Camps:
Elementary Training for 7 to 10 days
Introduction to AK-47 rifles, Chinese pistols, rocket launchers/LMG's explosives
Art of ambushes with minimum firing practice on AK-47 Rifles and pistols plus live demonstration of explosives
Lectures and practical demonstrations in concealment, camouflage, reconnaissance and intelligence gathering
Others sent for "battle inocculation in Afghan Mujahideen War"
Training in sabotage and subversive operations
Indoctrination for armed struggle through lectures and video film
Extended Training Courses 2 to 12 weeks
Handling of sophisticated/heavy weapons including rocket launchers, MMG's/LMG's, AK-47/56/74's, MI/sniper rifles, mortars, remote control devices anti-personnel/tank mines and explosives, including IED's
Finer aspects of ambushes/raids, operation of walkie-talkie sets
Use of anti-aircraft guns and HMGs
Rock climbing/mountaineering, jungle survival, mock exercise for border crossing
First aid/para-medical training
Audio-visual education on commando operations
After initial arms training, some terrorists are imparted wireless communication training (morse and computer-based data mode) for ensuring direct link of terrorists with Pakistan authorities. Specialised training in new weapons including SVD, Dragunov sniper rifles, 12.7 mm HMGs and 82mm mortars
Revised Curriculum: In selected cases training programmes have been streamlined and extended to periods ranging between 6 months to 1 year. Emphasis is being laid on building up tough physical standards and development of leadership qualities. Educated youth, preferably with technical/science background and affiliated to pro-Pak groups are being selected for specialised and prolonged training.
US House Republican Research Committee's Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, February 1, 1993: "The escalation of Islamist terrorism in western India was not sufficient for Pakistan. Therefore, Islamabad decided to begin the insertion of its own forces into the region. Soon afterward, in the early-summer of 1992, some 200 highly trained and well armed Afghan Mujahideen infiltrated into Indian Kashmir in order to assist in what was by now a full-blown armed struggle.
"Another group of 300 Afghans in command of a larger force of Pakistani-trained Kashmiris are waiting in Pakistani Kashmir for the opportune conditions in order to infiltrate into Indian Kashmir and open a new terrorist front. Meanwhile Pakistani special forces have also expanded their operations. For example, in early-August 1992, two Pakistani operatives were captured in Vijaypur, 30 km from Madras (south India), trying to blow up a train. It was a professional job, for they were members of an ISI supported group sent to assist the Kashmiri struggle. The support of secessionist terrorism has become an integral part of Pakistani diplomacy."
US House Republican Research Committee's Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, September 20, 1993: "The ISI opted to keep the US/CIA out of the camps in order to hide the extent of the 'volunteer's' training programme. Indeed, thousands of Islamist trainees from Indian Kashmir, and to a lesser extent Sikhs from the Punjab, as well as hundreds of Islamists from all over the Arab and Muslim world, were routinely trained in camps originally set up strictly for the training of Afghan Mujahideen. The sites for Fuqra terrorist training are part of a complex of some 6 camps in the greater Lahore, and some 20 camps in the general Lahore area, in which Kashmiris, Sikhs, and others from India receive terrorist training. Thus at present the training and preparation of additional high quality terrorists continues to expand."
Robert Gates, then Deputy National Security Adviser to the US President, on CBC TV, February 1, 1994: "When President Bush sent me to Pakistan and India in May 1990, one of the specific requests that I made of the President of Pakistan was that they close the training camps that were providing people to carry out operations in Kashmir as well as Indian Punjab."
Le Figaro, June 23, 1994: Pakistan is responsible for the training of most of the Kashmiri separatist groups in camps located in Pakistani Kashmir. The ISI, i.e. the Pakistani military intelligence service, arms and finances the separatist groups operating within Indian Kashmir and often defines their strategy.
Guest Militants (from Pakistan and other countries) Publication Division, Hizbul Mujahideen, Jammu & Kashmir: Announcements like the following made by the Hizbul Mujahideen in Al Safa dated March 6, 1994 show the direct involvement of Pakistan nationals in terrorism in Kashmir.
Martyr Manzoor Bhai (Rawalkot),
Martyr Dawood Bhai (Azad Kashmir)
Nazir Kansour alias Assadulla
Martyr Akbar Bhai (Afghanistan)
Martyr Umar Gazi (Saudi Arabia)
Martyr Khalid Bhai
Martyr Basharat Abass (Azad Kashmir)
Martyr Utta-ul-Rehman (Dir)
Martyr Basharat Abbas (Azad Kashmir)
Martyr Abid alias Akhtar (Rahimyar Khan)
Martyr Sikander Hayat (Faisalabad)
Martyr Mohmeer Khan (Karachi)
Martyr Rehman Khan (Bardo)
Martyr Zulfikar Munshi (Sargoda)
Martyr Zulfikar Ahmed (Gujrat)
Martyr Umer Niyazi (Gujranwala)
Martyr Tariq Mohmood (Lahore)
Martyr Zafar Bhai (Gujranwala)
Martyr Amir Bhai (Dir)
Martyr Gazi Yousuf (Lahore) The report listed the names of 16 other 'martyrs' from Sialkot, Dera Ghazi Khan and Khanwali besides others from Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia.
Involvement of ISI [Inter Services Intelligence] of Pakistan's Armed Forces. Some of the ISI agents apprehended in India:
Amjad Ali, and Mahfooz Ali both ISI trained Pakistan nationals were arrested in Delhi on March 4, 1994
Maj. Sohail Ahmed, PA No. 16742
Capt. Aftab Hussain Shah, PSS 21961
N/Sub. Mustaq Ahmed, No. 155492
Sep/Driver Fateh Mohd., No. 3231138
Amjad Ali, Mehfooz Ali Khan along with two other Pakistan nationals had been sent to Delhi by retired Major Ehsan-ul-Haq, military commander of a Lahore-based militant organisation, Islami Inquilabi Mahaz. A large number of documents, 16 kg of high explosives, seven electronic detonators, two hand grenades were among the materials found on them. They also had two sets of "Win Word" floppies containing 250 pages that included notes on RDX and TNT, the production of explosives and the manufacture of poisons from easily available substances. They had received extensive training in guerilla warfare in Afghanistan, Kotli and Bagh from ISI instructors. They had been told to establish bases in different cities of India and then strike mainly with explosives at railway tracks, bus stands, telephone lines, government and commercial buildings. They even intended to poison wells to create panic and cripple the economy by damaging the transport and communications system.
Pakistan ISI Guidelines for Terrorism: The aim of the Pakistan authorities to destabilise and break the Indian nation has been entrusted to the Pakistan Intelligence agencies particularly the ISI. It is reliably learnt that Pakistan ISI has laid down the following guidelines to gear up terrorism in the Kashmir valley and Punjab:
All trained Kashmiri/Sikh youth in Pak/POK to be infiltrated to Kashmir as soon as possible. All arms earmarked for the terrorists are to be despatched to the Kashmir valley/Punjab through secret routes
Terrorist movement in Kashmir and Punjab should be kept alive and efforts made to spread it to Ladakh, UP, Delhi, Bengal (east India), Karnataka (south India)
Maximum training camps to be opened. The location of these camps should be selected by respective militant outfits which would be surveyed and approved by a team of ISI and will be run under their close supervision. Afghan Mujahideen instructors would also be made available for training in these camps
More Afghan Mujahideen to be sent to the valley
ISI will control all militant outfits operating in the valley
The plan envisaged by the Indian government to hold elections in Jammu and Kashmir to be sabotaged
Kashmiri leaders supporting elections in Jammu and Kashmir to be eliminated/kidnapped
To kill Hindus in Punjab so that members of this community migrate out of Punjab and
Sikhs migrate to Punjab after a Hindu backlash
Terrorist Revelations - The Pakistani Connection: Revelations and disclosures made by terrorists who have been detained, consistently reveal direct Pakistani links to terrorist acts in both Kashmir and Punjab. Excerpts from disclosures by Master Ahsan Dar, Supreme Commander, Muslim Mujahideen: He and Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Lone, who were arrested at Jawahar Nagar on December 19, 1993 in an intelligence operation soon after the return of Ahsan Dar from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (POK), have confirmed the continued Pakistan support to the militancy in J&K. Ahsan Dar had gone across for the fifth time in July 1993.
On his last visit (July-December 1993) to POK, he held discussions with Brig. Fahad, Col. Raja Sajjad, Col. Somail and Col. Imran, Pakistan ISI officials, who emphasised the need for reducing the number of militant outfits and bringing them under existing secessionist organisations. They wanted a qualitative upgradation in the attacks on Indian security forces by induction of highly trained and well-equipped Kashmiri militants/alien Muslims mercenaries. To achieve the above, the Pakistan ISI has shifted some training camps from Muzafarabad to places on the Pakistan-Afghan border and even inside Pakistan and at the same time, fixed the mandatory training period of militants at 3 months. During his stay in Pak/POK, Ahsan Dar infiltrated 250 militants of Muslim Mujahideen with liberal quantities of arms and ammunition. In addition to ISI officials, Ahsan Dar held discussions with Sardar Abdul Qayoom Khan, PM, POK.
After he was dislodged from the post of Chief Commander Hizb-ul-Mujahideen', he formed the 'Mujahideen-e-Islam' in May 1992 and crossed over to Pakistan in August 1992 for in search of patronage for his new outfit. He was advised by Pakistan ISI officials as also Sardar Abdul Qayoom Khan, PM, POK to merge a few splinter militant outfits in the valley with his group and seek the patronage of the Muslim Conference. Acting on the directives of Pakistan agencies on his return in December 1992, he floated Muslim Mujahideen by merging four other outfits.
Disclosures by Mohd. Ramzan, former Chief Commander of Ansur-ul-Mujahideen: A Pakistani national from Faisalabad, Pakistan, was apprehended on May 11, 1994 at Udhampur, India. He was designated as Chief Commander of Ansar-ul-Mujahideen in March 1994, when three militant outfits were merged. However, in April 1994, he was persuaded to leave the outfit by Mehmood-ul-Hassan. He decided to rejoin his parent outfit Markaz Dawa-wal-Arshad (MdA) and left for Delhi on May 11, 1994.
The plan was to contact his senior leaders at Lahore, Pakistan on phone for sending more trained youth and money as directed by Shamas-ul-Rehman Afghani, Amir, NDA, in the Valley. His induction into Kashmir militancy took place while undergoing religious training in 1992 at Faisalabad (Pakistan) when he was elected by MdA. He was trained for a month at Lashkar-e-Taiba training centre located at Kunar, Afghanistan in handling of rifles of various types, pistols, anti-aircraft/field guns, BM/Stinger missiles, AP/AT mines and explosives and underwent a specialised three month commando course at Lashkar-e-Aksa training centre in Afghanistan with about 200 youths, including 5 Afghans, 5 Filipinos, 12 Kashmiris and the rest from Pak/POK.
In May 1993, in a group of 15 he was inducted into the Valley through the Gurez sector, Baramulla and brought to Ganderbal area by local activists of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Al Barq. Before induction, the group was briefed by the leaders of MDA, who told them to work in close cooperation with Al Barq while maintaining a separate identity. Col. Salim of Pakistani ISI also met them at the Al Barq office, Muzaffarabad, POK, from where the group was taken to Keil Army Camp. Besides arms and ammunition, two computerised wireless sets, Rs. 2,000 to each member and Rs. 20,000 to Abu Dujana, Pakistan national and Group Chief, were issued. The Ansar-ul-Mujahideen had planned a series of actions at public places in Delhi with the help of local criminal elements aimed at creating panic before Eid.
Excerpts from disclosures by Dr. Sohan Singh, Chief of the Second Panthic Committee:
"I wanted to go to Dhaka to meet the Embassies of China, Sri Lanka, etc. to further internationalise the Khalistan issue because at present we are only confined to a limited area. We can only go to Pakistan for help at present. We have neither a printing press, nor a radio station, nor contacts with other countries. Pakistan, in fact, wants to manipulate us. We neither expected nor wanted any help from Dhaka because Pakistan was already catering to our needs and was willing to keep up the supplies according to our requirements. I have come to possess a Pakistani passport which means I am a Pak national.
"I was sent to Pakistan by Bittoo. I failed to cross the border via Rajasthan in the first attempt because the person, who was to arrange my exfiltration, had perhaps informed the police. I finally crossed over to Pakistan via Amritsar along with Bittoo and another well built Sikh youth on February 15, 1989. The local guide was waiting for us across the border.Wadhawa Singh and Bittoo were in Lahore whereas Wassan Singh was living elsewhere. Though Manochahal was also in Pakistan, I never met him.
"Among other important Sikh militants, who were in Pakistan, included the two top Babbars, Panjwar and Bittoo and many more of junior levels."
When asked to name the persons who had come from other countries to meet him in Pakistan, Sohan Singh, said: "Pak officials normally did not allow anybody to meet us but with the intervention of JEI (Jamait-e-Islami), we invited four persons, Gurcharan Singh Dhillon, Dr. Surender Singh Grewal, Amarjit Singh and one more person of WSO Canada and discussed with them the issue of establishing a radio station (refers to Radio 'Khalistan') and the funds required for it.
"They (Pakistan) had called Talwinder Singh Babbar to Pakistan. Talwinder had come there with arms and ammunition worth two crore rupees (20 million). He met me in hospital where I was getting treatment. However, the weapons brought by him were taken away by the Pakistan officials."
Revelations of Shaukat Baxi¸ son of Ghulam Mohd. Baxi, resident of Srinagar: He admitted to have contacted Amanullah Khan, Chief of JKLF in Pakistan, who instructed him to attack air force officers and also kill Lassa Kaul, Station Director, Doordarshan, Srinagar. Shaukat Baxi also confessed that he had brought arms and ammunition from Pakistan.
Mustaq Ahmed Sheikh alias Jaan Kachroo, son of Abdul Gani, resident of Srinagar: The statements of this terrorist and four companions involved in the kidnapping and murder of Prof. Mushir-ul-Haq clearly indicate that the Pakistan authorities had been organising training programmes for militants in a very systematic organised manner. They had also been keeping records of militants being trained by them, forming special squads and assigning them specific tasks for action.
Tahir Ahmed Mir, son of Gulam Rasool Mir, resident of Srinagar: One of the terrorists involved in the kidnapping and murder of H.L. Khera, General Manager, HMT revealed that in Pakistan one Tariq, an officer of Pakistan ISI accompanied them. They returned to India with 3 Kalashnikov Rifles, 3 pistols and some hand grenades.
Abdul Samad, son of Abdul Hamid, Jaipur: A huge explosive device was planted in Purohitji Ka Katla, one of the most crowded placed located in the heart of Jaipur city on March 29, 1990 to kill a large number of Hindus in this Hindu dominated area with a view to triggering off communal riots in Jaipur city. The operation was under the direction of two Pakistan nationals, Sujauddin, son of Fazluddin Sadique, House No. 245 D, Block No. 4, F-B Area, Karachi-38, and Mumtazuddin, son of Fazluddin, Karchi (Tel. No. 676376/672526).
Dhanna Singh, Damdami Taksal and Member Panthic Committee (arrested Sept.12, 1986): Revealed that Bhai Gurjit Singh, a relation of Bhindranwale, Bhai Ajaib Singh (Damdami Taksal) and Gurbachan Singh Manochahal (Member Panthic Committee) have been dealing with Pakistan. The Panthic Committee was forced to announce 'Khalistan' from the Golden Temple Complex on April 29, 1986 under the threat that Pakistan would stop assistance to extremist groups in Punjab if this announcement was not made.
Amrik Singh, son of Gian Singh Jat Sikh, resident of Shahpur Goraya, Working President of Akal Federation in Pakistan (arrested on December 11, 1986): Meetings were also held at Lahore on April 1 and 2, 1985 under the aegis of Pakistan security officers Malik, Asif and Bhati in which discussions to ensure that coordinated terrorist action among various extremist groups in Punjab took place. Sikh youth in Pakistan were provided training in subversion and sabotage in training camps at Faisalabad jail, Civil Lines (Lahore), Lala Musa Camp, Jalalpur Jathan and Shekhupura in Lahore.
Mohan Inder Singh Sachdeva alias Pushpinder Singh alias Tony, son of Kanwaljit Singh, Amritsar. Affiliated to ISYF, Canada (arrested on January 5, 1987): A consignment of arms worth US$ 250,000 was sent to Pakistan by the International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF) for trans-shipment to Punjab under the guidance of Satinderpal Singh Gill, ISYF, Canada. Gill had been located in Pakistan to coordinate procurement of weapons and Sikh terrorist activities in Punjab. He disclosed another plan of the ISYF to procure weapons worth about Rs. 2 million from a gunrunner Abdul Rahim of NWFP of Pakistan through Sham Singh Sindhi, a Pakistani Sikh operating under the directions of Pakistan intelligence. It was also revealed that Jalaluddin of Lahore was an important link between Sikh extremists and Pakistan and was in touch with Dr. Arjinderpal Singh Sekhon, a top Sikh terrorist leader in the USA.
Dalip Singh Rode, former driver of late Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (arrested Nov. 22, 1987): Top Sikh extremists Gurjit Singh (Convenor AISSF), Nirwair Singh and Jagir Singh (spokesmen of the Panthic Committee), Malkiat Singh Ajnala (KCF) and Ajaib Singh (Damdami Taksal) were given training in Pakistan. Iqbal Chaudhury, a Pakistan official, asked Gurjit Singh and Ajaib Singh to declare Khalistan following which Pakistan would step up supply of arms. Gurjit Singh thereafter prevailed upon the Panthic Committee on April 28, 1986, to declare Khalistan from the Golden Temple Complex. Intelligence officers of Pakistan also put some arms smugglers in touch with them.
Harjinder Singh alias Jinder alias Pataka, son of Roop Singh, resident of Mohalla Kothi, District Jammu (arrested on July 7, 1991): Harjinder Singh along with Manjit Singh crossed over to Pakistan on February 10, 1991. There Balkar Singh, Chief General of the Khalistan National Army (KNA), settled in Canada, met them and exhorted them to kill VIPs and high Government officials to create panic among the bureaucracy. The same evening, a Pakistan intelligence official Munshi handed over to them rucksacks containing 7 AK-47 rifles, with 28 magazines, 7 pistols and 14 magazines, 25 stick bombs, 7 wire-cutters and 70 kg of explosives with detonators and fuse wire.
Atinder Pal Singh, alias Harjeet Singh alias Gurbux Singh alias Virji alias Balbir Singh alias Avtar Singh, son of Trilok Singh, resident of Bhopal, Chief of KLO (arrested Oct. 4, 1988): Actively involved in the conspiracy to assassinate the late Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, crossed over to Pakistan in October 1984. After this his stock among the Pakistan intelligence authorities rose and he was taken to different jails where Sikh youth were lodged for training and indoctrination. He again visited Pakistan from September to November 1987 along with his close associate Sukhdev Singh alias Fauji, an ex-serviceman, where they were extensively trained in the handling of explosives and fabrication of IEDs. Their training also included blowing up of bridges, railway tracks and use of road mines to blow up VIP vehicles.
Ghulam Rasool Dar, son of Abdul Aziz Dar of Kupwara, Akbar Tigers (arrested Nov.7, 1990): A brigadier of Pakistan Army declared that they had decided to impart special training to Kashmiri youths and raise its own battalion to be attached with 655 Mujahid Battalion of the Pakistan Army to help their men in the Valley at an opportune time. He disclosed that wireless communication facility was being provided by the Pakistan Army so that militant outfits in the Valley can maintain contact with the Pakistan Army picket at Wahab Dar.
Shahabudin Goro, son of Abdul Salam, resident of Tanda, Uttar Pradesh, working in South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre, Delhi (arrested on March 25, 1991): Shahabuddin Gori had arranged visas for 12 Kashmiri Muslims who were going to Pakistan for arms training in October/November 1989 through Ehsan Chowdhury, a counselor in Pakistan Embassy in New Delhi. Gori visited Pakistan in February/March and met Mohd. Yousuf Shah alias Salahuddin, Patron, HuM, at Rawalpindi and was handed over one letter containing directions addressed to Ahsan Dar, then Chief, HuM, in the Valley and US$ 10,000 for delivering to Ashfaq Hussain Lone, Dy. Chief of Intelligence, HuM. He also met Dr. Ayub Thakur of the World Kashmir Federation Movement (UK) and Salahuddin at Islamabad (Pakistan). Dr. Thakur had earlier sent him Rs. 1.6 million. In November 1990, Lone had escorted Col. Tariq (Pakistan ISI) on a special mission in the Valley.
Mufti Mehrajudeen Farooqui, son of Late Mufti Mohd. Qwamuddin, resident of Srinagar: In March 1990, met Col. Assad of Pakistan ISI at Rawalpindi for coordinating training and arms supply to JKLF. Visited Nepal thrice in 1991 with Ghulam Mohd. Sheikh (code name Khalid) for meeting Kalimullah, Second Secretary, Pakistan Embassy and other Pakistan ISI officials including Brig. Noman, who went specially to meet them at Kathmandu from Pakistan. They were given Rs. 650,000 to hire a shop at Kathmandu for cover in future and a 'safe house' for stay. Kalimullah also promised another Rs. 2.2 million shortly. Earlier, they were given Rs. 400,000 at Srinagar, their expenses in Kathmandu and Rs. 1.4 million at Delhi, meant for militant outfits in theValley.
Mohd. Bhat, son of G.M. Bhat, Nagin, Srinagar (Acting Chief HuM) (arrested Apr 27, 1992): Visited Pakistan/POK twice since 1988 for long durations to undergo arms training and coordinate with Pakistan ISI officials training and funds to IUM cadres. Remained in constant touch with Lt. Gen. Durani, former Chief, ISI, Brig. Shoukat and other ISI officials. Disclosed that the Pakistan ISI is regularly funding all militant outfits and HuM was receiving large funds. ISI had directed HuM to spread militancy outside J&K, particularly to Delhi by kidnapping/killing of important political leaders to create panic/confusion in the administration and among the people. Sheikh Rashid, a Minister in the Nawaz Sharif government, has been using his influence with Pakistani ISI to help HuM for more monetary and material support.
Imtiaz Ahmed Butt alias Shabir Bhai, son of Ghulam Rasool Butt, resident of F-551, Satellite Town, Rawalpindi, Pakistan (arrested Jan. 1, 1993): Was recruited in January 1990 and given 9 months professional arms training by Pakistan Army and discharged before being picked up again in September 1990 for two 10-day training courses in use of firearms. Between these two short courses, he was also given extensive arms training at Al-Badar3 training camp at Posta Faiz, Afghanistan from October to December 1990. Twelve Pakistan nationals and 16 Kashmiri youths also received arms training along with him at Al-Badar3. In May 1991, he joined a group of 20 Pakistan/POK nationals for physical and weapons training in village Bagh by Pakistan Army personnel. After training the group joined regular Pakistan Army personnel for an attack on Indian security posts in Poonch Sector with a view to capturing a small portion of Indian territory for a corridor for free flow of arms/ammunition/men from Pak/POK to J&K State. Inducted into the Valley along with 18 Pakistan trained Kashmiri militants on September 13/14, 1991, along with a huge cache of arms/ammunition, as directed by his Pakistan ISI masters, he worked for Hizb-ul-Mujahideen.
Syed Khalid Hussain Bukhari alias Sajjad Hussain, son of Syed Khadim Hussain Bukhari, resident of Adam Sen, Hattian, Muzaffarabad (POK) (arrested on September 1992): He has disclosed that Pakistani ISI has made arrangement with Pak/POK JEI (Jamait-e-Islami) wherein the JEI is given the task of motivating and recruiting Pak/POK nationals for arms training for subsequent induction into the Kashmir Valley. Under this plan, he was picked up by JEI(POK) and was sent to Khost (Afghanistan) in December 1989 for arms training along with a group of Kashmiri militants. Besides arms training they were also exposed to fundamentalist religious doctrine. On the call of JEI, POK, Bukhari enrolled as a volunteer to fight along with Kashmiri militants. He was finally inducted into the Kashmir Valley in April 1991.
Zulfikar Ali Shah alias Amar, son of Ziarat Ali Shah, resident of Latifabad, Hyderabad, Sindh (Pakistan) (arrested on February 7, 1993): He disclosed that Pakistan ISI has floated and is financing a number of militant outfits like Islami Inqalabi Nahaz, Markaz-e-Dawat-ul-Irshad, Harkat-Mujahideen, Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami to recruit, motivate and impart arms training to youths of Pakistan and other Muslim countries at training camps in Khost and Jalalabad areas in order to make them available to ISI for induction into J&K. He himself, received 75 days arms training along with 60/70 youths from Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Algeria and Bangladesh at Farooq Training Camp (Khost) at the behest of Islami Inqalabi Nahaz. After completion of training, he with a group of 12 Pakistan and Afghan nationals was inducted into Mendhar, Poonch on February 5, 1993, by Col. Murtaza Gillani alias Pir Saheb, Maj. Hassan and Maj. Mir of Pakistan ISI.
Mushtaq Hussain alias Mattoo, son of Ghulam Hussain, resident of Poonch (POK) (arrested on December 21, 992): He had disclosed that a militant outfit 'Jamaat Mustafa' floated by JEI (POK) is run by Pakistan ISI with the help of retired Army officers of Pakistan officers Brig. Akbar Din (Retd), Maj. Fazal Hussain (Retd) and Col. Arif Khan (Retd). The sole aim of this outfit is to train Indian Kashmiri and Pak/POK youths in subversive activities for 'Liberating' Kashmir from India. He was initially motivated by JEI activists, given arms training by ISI men at Khost along with other Pak/POK youth. Thereafter he was inducted into the Jammu region by Brig. Akbar Din in December 1992.
Sujit Das, former Sub-Divisional Chairman of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA): Having voluntarily given up arms, he is now under constant threat from his erstwhile comrades. Along with another ULFA member in February 1992, he had taken 40 Bangladeshis through the Dhubri sector. He was given a Muslim name and a passport with a Pakistan visa and put on a PIA flight to Karachi in March 1992. Received by a "military type" person he was taken to Rawalpindi from where along with 12 other ULFA militants he was taken deep into the jungle under Pakistan Army security for 3 months of training. They were taught to handle AK-47s, AK-56, M20 and Browning guns as well as a variety of explosives. He was brought back to India via Bangladesh.
Gowher Ameen Meer, Hyderabad resident and student at the Nizamia Tibbi College: He disclosed that he was an agent of the Ikhwan-ul-Muslimeen (IUM) and that a well-knit terrorist network had been established in Hyderabad. Recruits were handpicked individually and sent via Calcutta and Bangladesh to Karachi from where they were sent on to camps for training in firearms. One of his recruits Liyakat Khan disclosed that they were in direct touch with the HuM Chief, Hilal Beg in Islamabad and under his instructions had made a list of important installations in Hyderabad, south India, to be attacked by terrorists which resulted in the explosions on August 12 and September 12, 1993.
Revelations of Pakistani links by Lal Singh alias Manjit Singh: From his interrogation, it was found that after vigilance on Punjab border was strengthened, new routes were explored and used, with the help of ISI, in the Jammu and Rajasthan sectors. As the ISI took over the entire responsibility of weapons smuggling, it began sending the shipments with the help of its own smugglers for direct delivery to the terrorists in India. Another important operational link of Lal Singh was with Altaf Hussain, Member, National Assembly, to whom he was introduced by Amirul Azim. Pakistan JEI leaders always played an important guiding and motivational role for the Sikh terrorists. At the time of Lal Singh's arrest, a piece of paper, containing the contact numbers of several foreign-based Sikh terrorists was received from him. Lal Singh confirmed that most of these foreign-based contacts were remitting large funds to the Second Panthic Committee coordinators in Pakistan.
While in the US along with Gur Pratap Virk and other terrorists he underwent mercenary training at the institute of Frank Camper in Alabama to familiarise himself with the handling of AK-47 rifles, submachine guns, weapons and a host of terrorist techniques. In his stay of over 3 years in Canada, he was associated with the ISYF and terrorist leaders like Talwinder Singh Parmar and Lakhbir Singh Rode. Lal Singh arrived in Pakistan in October 1988 and established his base at Lahore together with Satinder Pal Singh Gill and Balbir Singh. His activities over the next three years were conducted in close collaboration with the international Sikh terrorists based in Pakistan, senior ISI officials and some top activists of the Pak JEI.
After Satinder Pal Singh Gill and Balbir Singh had to leave Pakistan following the attack on an Indian diplomat at Dera Sahib Gurdwara in Lahore, he became the Chief Coordinator for the Second Panthic Committee groups in Pakistan. He was also a key figure for receiving funds from the UK, USA and Canada to finance the supply of weapons and other terrorist-related activities in India. During his stay he personally handled over 5 million rupees for this purpose. During his stay in Pakistan, the ISI changed Lal Singh's accommodation four times. He was also imparted intensive training in the NWFP (North West Frontier Province of Pakistan) in the handling of AK rifles, rocket launchers and explosives. After his presence in Pakistan was exposed and the FBI and Canadians started pressing authorities for his extradition, he was advised by the Pakistan ISI to escape to India. They provided him with yet another forged passport in the name of Mohammed Iqbal Ahmed and facilitated his entry through Bombay on an Air Lanka flight. During his entry he was accompanied by a Pakistan agent Sharif.
Statements of Pakistani leaders: Perhaps the most direct evidence of Pakistan's role in aiding and assisting terrorism in India, is contained in the public statements made to this effect by important Pakistani leaders.
In his earlier term as Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Nawaz Sharif said: "The episode of Hazratbal is a glorious chapter in the four years long popular, spontaneous, indigenous and widespread uprising of the Kashmiri people".
The former Prime Minister of Pakistan Ms Benazir Bhutto saluted "the courage and fortitude of the Kashmir freedom fighters under the most arduous circumstances," even as they occupied the holiest of Muslim shrines in Kashmir, and held innocent people hostage in it, and threatened to blow it up.
Lahore, January 16, 1992 Speaking at a FRIENDS seminar, Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg (Chief of Army Staff) said that "crores were being spent on keeping the Kashmiris struggle alive," and added "I wish I could tell you the details in this regard."
Sardar Sikander Hayat Khan, POK President, addressing a Jehad Conference organised by the Muslim Conference, said that "Held Kashmir would not be liberated by holding conferences and meetings and raising slogans" and urged for "extending help to the freedom fighters of Kashmir."
Press Reports from Pakistan:
May 1, 1990 In her despatch datelined Muzaffarabad, Kathy Evans of The Guardian reported: "The President of Azad Kashmir state in Pakistan, Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan, has accused the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front of containing 'terrorist elements.'" September 15, 1991 talking to Nawa-i-Waqt (Pakistan), Sardar Qayyum said: "Islam would strengthen freedom movement and determination of accession of Pakistan. Pakistan should courageously announce that it was extending every possible help to resistance movement as it was not a secessionist movement but movement of accession to Pakistan."
November 20, 1990 Nawa-i-Waqt, reported that Mumtaz Rathore, Prime Minister of POK had decided to utilise Rs. 430 million worth of the Zakat fund to extend practical aid to the Kashmiri militants.
Nation (Pakistan), May 13, 1991 Sheikh Rashid Ahmad, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting, has said that the present liberation struggle in Held Kashmir will continue till realisation of its objectives. Addressing public rallies at five different places in London and Birmingham on Saturday and Sunday, he said any deviation from the Kashmir freedom movement would be a national and religious crime.
Nation (Pakistan), November 26, 1990 Mumtaz Rathore, then Prime Minister of POK: "The very purpose of the state (of POK) is to serve as base camp for the liberation of Held Kashmir and Kashmir."
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Terrorist Training Camps in Pakistan & Revelations by Terrorists:
Indian and Foreign Sources
THE FOLLOWING has been compiled by the Indian Embassy in Washington and posted on the internet. Extremely useful for it highlights the factual position on Pakistani sponsorship of terrorism against India, in the states of Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. The information although slightly dated, is relevant particularly in the context of Pakistan's role as a 'front line ally' in the war against terrorism.
Terrorist Training Camps in Pakistan: US House Republican Research Committee's Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, 1 February 1993:
Since the summer of 1991, the ISI has further increased its direct involvement in the training and supporting of Kashmiri Islamist terrorists. Brig. Mohammed Salim, an ISI officer, is in charge of training and supporting Kashmiri Islamists. By 1992, the ISI was operating 13 permanent, 18 temporary and 8 joint training camps for Kashmiris in Pakistan Azad Kashmir alone. Some 3,700 Kashmiri fighters were located in those camps by the summer of 1992, including terrorists who cross over from Indian Kashmir. Thus, in the spring/summer of 1992, the ISI established new training camps for Islamist terrorists where they are trained on the latest weapons.
The Director of this effort is ISI Brig. Javed, a veteran of the Afghan support effort. A special research council of Islamabad, including military and ISI officers, determines which groups and individuals are eligible to receive assistance, what type, and to what extent.
Curriculum in Training Camps:
Elementary Training for 7 to 10 days
Introduction to AK-47 rifles, Chinese pistols, rocket launchers/LMG's explosives
Art of ambushes with minimum firing practice on AK-47 Rifles and pistols plus live demonstration of explosives
Lectures and practical demonstrations in concealment, camouflage, reconnaissance and intelligence gathering
Others sent for "battle inocculation in Afghan Mujahideen War"
Training in sabotage and subversive operations
Indoctrination for armed struggle through lectures and video film
Extended Training Courses 2 to 12 weeks
Handling of sophisticated/heavy weapons including rocket launchers, MMG's/LMG's, AK-47/56/74's, MI/sniper rifles, mortars, remote control devices anti-personnel/tank mines and explosives, including IED's
Finer aspects of ambushes/raids, operation of walkie-talkie sets
Use of anti-aircraft guns and HMGs
Rock climbing/mountaineering, jungle survival, mock exercise for border crossing
First aid/para-medical training
Audio-visual education on commando operations
After initial arms training, some terrorists are imparted wireless communication training (morse and computer-based data mode) for ensuring direct link of terrorists with Pakistan authorities. Specialised training in new weapons including SVD, Dragunov sniper rifles, 12.7 mm HMGs and 82mm mortars
Revised Curriculum: In selected cases training programmes have been streamlined and extended to periods ranging between 6 months to 1 year. Emphasis is being laid on building up tough physical standards and development of leadership qualities. Educated youth, preferably with technical/science background and affiliated to pro-Pak groups are being selected for specialised and prolonged training.
US House Republican Research Committee's Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, February 1, 1993: "The escalation of Islamist terrorism in western India was not sufficient for Pakistan. Therefore, Islamabad decided to begin the insertion of its own forces into the region. Soon afterward, in the early-summer of 1992, some 200 highly trained and well armed Afghan Mujahideen infiltrated into Indian Kashmir in order to assist in what was by now a full-blown armed struggle.
"Another group of 300 Afghans in command of a larger force of Pakistani-trained Kashmiris are waiting in Pakistani Kashmir for the opportune conditions in order to infiltrate into Indian Kashmir and open a new terrorist front. Meanwhile Pakistani special forces have also expanded their operations. For example, in early-August 1992, two Pakistani operatives were captured in Vijaypur, 30 km from Madras (south India), trying to blow up a train. It was a professional job, for they were members of an ISI supported group sent to assist the Kashmiri struggle. The support of secessionist terrorism has become an integral part of Pakistani diplomacy."
US House Republican Research Committee's Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, September 20, 1993: "The ISI opted to keep the US/CIA out of the camps in order to hide the extent of the 'volunteer's' training programme. Indeed, thousands of Islamist trainees from Indian Kashmir, and to a lesser extent Sikhs from the Punjab, as well as hundreds of Islamists from all over the Arab and Muslim world, were routinely trained in camps originally set up strictly for the training of Afghan Mujahideen. The sites for Fuqra terrorist training are part of a complex of some 6 camps in the greater Lahore, and some 20 camps in the general Lahore area, in which Kashmiris, Sikhs, and others from India receive terrorist training. Thus at present the training and preparation of additional high quality terrorists continues to expand."
Robert Gates, then Deputy National Security Adviser to the US President, on CBC TV, February 1, 1994: "When President Bush sent me to Pakistan and India in May 1990, one of the specific requests that I made of the President of Pakistan was that they close the training camps that were providing people to carry out operations in Kashmir as well as Indian Punjab."
Le Figaro, June 23, 1994: Pakistan is responsible for the training of most of the Kashmiri separatist groups in camps located in Pakistani Kashmir. The ISI, i.e. the Pakistani military intelligence service, arms and finances the separatist groups operating within Indian Kashmir and often defines their strategy.
Guest Militants (from Pakistan and other countries) Publication Division, Hizbul Mujahideen, Jammu & Kashmir: Announcements like the following made by the Hizbul Mujahideen in Al Safa dated March 6, 1994 show the direct involvement of Pakistan nationals in terrorism in Kashmir.
Martyr Manzoor Bhai (Rawalkot),
Martyr Dawood Bhai (Azad Kashmir)
Nazir Kansour alias Assadulla
Martyr Akbar Bhai (Afghanistan)
Martyr Umar Gazi (Saudi Arabia)
Martyr Khalid Bhai
Martyr Basharat Abass (Azad Kashmir)
Martyr Utta-ul-Rehman (Dir)
Martyr Basharat Abbas (Azad Kashmir)
Martyr Abid alias Akhtar (Rahimyar Khan)
Martyr Sikander Hayat (Faisalabad)
Martyr Mohmeer Khan (Karachi)
Martyr Rehman Khan (Bardo)
Martyr Zulfikar Munshi (Sargoda)
Martyr Zulfikar Ahmed (Gujrat)
Martyr Umer Niyazi (Gujranwala)
Martyr Tariq Mohmood (Lahore)
Martyr Zafar Bhai (Gujranwala)
Martyr Amir Bhai (Dir)
Martyr Gazi Yousuf (Lahore) The report listed the names of 16 other 'martyrs' from Sialkot, Dera Ghazi Khan and Khanwali besides others from Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia.
Involvement of ISI [Inter Services Intelligence] of Pakistan's Armed Forces. Some of the ISI agents apprehended in India:
Amjad Ali, and Mahfooz Ali both ISI trained Pakistan nationals were arrested in Delhi on March 4, 1994
Maj. Sohail Ahmed, PA No. 16742
Capt. Aftab Hussain Shah, PSS 21961
N/Sub. Mustaq Ahmed, No. 155492
Sep/Driver Fateh Mohd., No. 3231138
Amjad Ali, Mehfooz Ali Khan along with two other Pakistan nationals had been sent to Delhi by retired Major Ehsan-ul-Haq, military commander of a Lahore-based militant organisation, Islami Inquilabi Mahaz. A large number of documents, 16 kg of high explosives, seven electronic detonators, two hand grenades were among the materials found on them. They also had two sets of "Win Word" floppies containing 250 pages that included notes on RDX and TNT, the production of explosives and the manufacture of poisons from easily available substances. They had received extensive training in guerilla warfare in Afghanistan, Kotli and Bagh from ISI instructors. They had been told to establish bases in different cities of India and then strike mainly with explosives at railway tracks, bus stands, telephone lines, government and commercial buildings. They even intended to poison wells to create panic and cripple the economy by damaging the transport and communications system.
Pakistan ISI Guidelines for Terrorism: The aim of the Pakistan authorities to destabilise and break the Indian nation has been entrusted to the Pakistan Intelligence agencies particularly the ISI. It is reliably learnt that Pakistan ISI has laid down the following guidelines to gear up terrorism in the Kashmir valley and Punjab:
All trained Kashmiri/Sikh youth in Pak/POK to be infiltrated to Kashmir as soon as possible. All arms earmarked for the terrorists are to be despatched to the Kashmir valley/Punjab through secret routes
Terrorist movement in Kashmir and Punjab should be kept alive and efforts made to spread it to Ladakh, UP, Delhi, Bengal (east India), Karnataka (south India)
Maximum training camps to be opened. The location of these camps should be selected by respective militant outfits which would be surveyed and approved by a team of ISI and will be run under their close supervision. Afghan Mujahideen instructors would also be made available for training in these camps
More Afghan Mujahideen to be sent to the valley
ISI will control all militant outfits operating in the valley
The plan envisaged by the Indian government to hold elections in Jammu and Kashmir to be sabotaged
Kashmiri leaders supporting elections in Jammu and Kashmir to be eliminated/kidnapped
To kill Hindus in Punjab so that members of this community migrate out of Punjab and
Sikhs migrate to Punjab after a Hindu backlash
Terrorist Revelations - The Pakistani Connection: Revelations and disclosures made by terrorists who have been detained, consistently reveal direct Pakistani links to terrorist acts in both Kashmir and Punjab. Excerpts from disclosures by Master Ahsan Dar, Supreme Commander, Muslim Mujahideen: He and Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Lone, who were arrested at Jawahar Nagar on December 19, 1993 in an intelligence operation soon after the return of Ahsan Dar from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (POK), have confirmed the continued Pakistan support to the militancy in J&K. Ahsan Dar had gone across for the fifth time in July 1993.
On his last visit (July-December 1993) to POK, he held discussions with Brig. Fahad, Col. Raja Sajjad, Col. Somail and Col. Imran, Pakistan ISI officials, who emphasised the need for reducing the number of militant outfits and bringing them under existing secessionist organisations. They wanted a qualitative upgradation in the attacks on Indian security forces by induction of highly trained and well-equipped Kashmiri militants/alien Muslims mercenaries. To achieve the above, the Pakistan ISI has shifted some training camps from Muzafarabad to places on the Pakistan-Afghan border and even inside Pakistan and at the same time, fixed the mandatory training period of militants at 3 months. During his stay in Pak/POK, Ahsan Dar infiltrated 250 militants of Muslim Mujahideen with liberal quantities of arms and ammunition. In addition to ISI officials, Ahsan Dar held discussions with Sardar Abdul Qayoom Khan, PM, POK.
After he was dislodged from the post of Chief Commander Hizb-ul-Mujahideen', he formed the 'Mujahideen-e-Islam' in May 1992 and crossed over to Pakistan in August 1992 for in search of patronage for his new outfit. He was advised by Pakistan ISI officials as also Sardar Abdul Qayoom Khan, PM, POK to merge a few splinter militant outfits in the valley with his group and seek the patronage of the Muslim Conference. Acting on the directives of Pakistan agencies on his return in December 1992, he floated Muslim Mujahideen by merging four other outfits.
Disclosures by Mohd. Ramzan, former Chief Commander of Ansur-ul-Mujahideen: A Pakistani national from Faisalabad, Pakistan, was apprehended on May 11, 1994 at Udhampur, India. He was designated as Chief Commander of Ansar-ul-Mujahideen in March 1994, when three militant outfits were merged. However, in April 1994, he was persuaded to leave the outfit by Mehmood-ul-Hassan. He decided to rejoin his parent outfit Markaz Dawa-wal-Arshad (MdA) and left for Delhi on May 11, 1994.
The plan was to contact his senior leaders at Lahore, Pakistan on phone for sending more trained youth and money as directed by Shamas-ul-Rehman Afghani, Amir, NDA, in the Valley. His induction into Kashmir militancy took place while undergoing religious training in 1992 at Faisalabad (Pakistan) when he was elected by MdA. He was trained for a month at Lashkar-e-Taiba training centre located at Kunar, Afghanistan in handling of rifles of various types, pistols, anti-aircraft/field guns, BM/Stinger missiles, AP/AT mines and explosives and underwent a specialised three month commando course at Lashkar-e-Aksa training centre in Afghanistan with about 200 youths, including 5 Afghans, 5 Filipinos, 12 Kashmiris and the rest from Pak/POK.
In May 1993, in a group of 15 he was inducted into the Valley through the Gurez sector, Baramulla and brought to Ganderbal area by local activists of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Al Barq. Before induction, the group was briefed by the leaders of MDA, who told them to work in close cooperation with Al Barq while maintaining a separate identity. Col. Salim of Pakistani ISI also met them at the Al Barq office, Muzaffarabad, POK, from where the group was taken to Keil Army Camp. Besides arms and ammunition, two computerised wireless sets, Rs. 2,000 to each member and Rs. 20,000 to Abu Dujana, Pakistan national and Group Chief, were issued. The Ansar-ul-Mujahideen had planned a series of actions at public places in Delhi with the help of local criminal elements aimed at creating panic before Eid.
Excerpts from disclosures by Dr. Sohan Singh, Chief of the Second Panthic Committee:
"I wanted to go to Dhaka to meet the Embassies of China, Sri Lanka, etc. to further internationalise the Khalistan issue because at present we are only confined to a limited area. We can only go to Pakistan for help at present. We have neither a printing press, nor a radio station, nor contacts with other countries. Pakistan, in fact, wants to manipulate us. We neither expected nor wanted any help from Dhaka because Pakistan was already catering to our needs and was willing to keep up the supplies according to our requirements. I have come to possess a Pakistani passport which means I am a Pak national.
"I was sent to Pakistan by Bittoo. I failed to cross the border via Rajasthan in the first attempt because the person, who was to arrange my exfiltration, had perhaps informed the police. I finally crossed over to Pakistan via Amritsar along with Bittoo and another well built Sikh youth on February 15, 1989. The local guide was waiting for us across the border.Wadhawa Singh and Bittoo were in Lahore whereas Wassan Singh was living elsewhere. Though Manochahal was also in Pakistan, I never met him.
"Among other important Sikh militants, who were in Pakistan, included the two top Babbars, Panjwar and Bittoo and many more of junior levels."
When asked to name the persons who had come from other countries to meet him in Pakistan, Sohan Singh, said: "Pak officials normally did not allow anybody to meet us but with the intervention of JEI (Jamait-e-Islami), we invited four persons, Gurcharan Singh Dhillon, Dr. Surender Singh Grewal, Amarjit Singh and one more person of WSO Canada and discussed with them the issue of establishing a radio station (refers to Radio 'Khalistan') and the funds required for it.
"They (Pakistan) had called Talwinder Singh Babbar to Pakistan. Talwinder had come there with arms and ammunition worth two crore rupees (20 million). He met me in hospital where I was getting treatment. However, the weapons brought by him were taken away by the Pakistan officials."
Revelations of Shaukat Baxi¸ son of Ghulam Mohd. Baxi, resident of Srinagar: He admitted to have contacted Amanullah Khan, Chief of JKLF in Pakistan, who instructed him to attack air force officers and also kill Lassa Kaul, Station Director, Doordarshan, Srinagar. Shaukat Baxi also confessed that he had brought arms and ammunition from Pakistan.
Mustaq Ahmed Sheikh alias Jaan Kachroo, son of Abdul Gani, resident of Srinagar: The statements of this terrorist and four companions involved in the kidnapping and murder of Prof. Mushir-ul-Haq clearly indicate that the Pakistan authorities had been organising training programmes for militants in a very systematic organised manner. They had also been keeping records of militants being trained by them, forming special squads and assigning them specific tasks for action.
Tahir Ahmed Mir, son of Gulam Rasool Mir, resident of Srinagar: One of the terrorists involved in the kidnapping and murder of H.L. Khera, General Manager, HMT revealed that in Pakistan one Tariq, an officer of Pakistan ISI accompanied them. They returned to India with 3 Kalashnikov Rifles, 3 pistols and some hand grenades.
Abdul Samad, son of Abdul Hamid, Jaipur: A huge explosive device was planted in Purohitji Ka Katla, one of the most crowded placed located in the heart of Jaipur city on March 29, 1990 to kill a large number of Hindus in this Hindu dominated area with a view to triggering off communal riots in Jaipur city. The operation was under the direction of two Pakistan nationals, Sujauddin, son of Fazluddin Sadique, House No. 245 D, Block No. 4, F-B Area, Karachi-38, and Mumtazuddin, son of Fazluddin, Karchi (Tel. No. 676376/672526).
Dhanna Singh, Damdami Taksal and Member Panthic Committee (arrested Sept.12, 1986): Revealed that Bhai Gurjit Singh, a relation of Bhindranwale, Bhai Ajaib Singh (Damdami Taksal) and Gurbachan Singh Manochahal (Member Panthic Committee) have been dealing with Pakistan. The Panthic Committee was forced to announce 'Khalistan' from the Golden Temple Complex on April 29, 1986 under the threat that Pakistan would stop assistance to extremist groups in Punjab if this announcement was not made.
Amrik Singh, son of Gian Singh Jat Sikh, resident of Shahpur Goraya, Working President of Akal Federation in Pakistan (arrested on December 11, 1986): Meetings were also held at Lahore on April 1 and 2, 1985 under the aegis of Pakistan security officers Malik, Asif and Bhati in which discussions to ensure that coordinated terrorist action among various extremist groups in Punjab took place. Sikh youth in Pakistan were provided training in subversion and sabotage in training camps at Faisalabad jail, Civil Lines (Lahore), Lala Musa Camp, Jalalpur Jathan and Shekhupura in Lahore.
Mohan Inder Singh Sachdeva alias Pushpinder Singh alias Tony, son of Kanwaljit Singh, Amritsar. Affiliated to ISYF, Canada (arrested on January 5, 1987): A consignment of arms worth US$ 250,000 was sent to Pakistan by the International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF) for trans-shipment to Punjab under the guidance of Satinderpal Singh Gill, ISYF, Canada. Gill had been located in Pakistan to coordinate procurement of weapons and Sikh terrorist activities in Punjab. He disclosed another plan of the ISYF to procure weapons worth about Rs. 2 million from a gunrunner Abdul Rahim of NWFP of Pakistan through Sham Singh Sindhi, a Pakistani Sikh operating under the directions of Pakistan intelligence. It was also revealed that Jalaluddin of Lahore was an important link between Sikh extremists and Pakistan and was in touch with Dr. Arjinderpal Singh Sekhon, a top Sikh terrorist leader in the USA.
Dalip Singh Rode, former driver of late Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (arrested Nov. 22, 1987): Top Sikh extremists Gurjit Singh (Convenor AISSF), Nirwair Singh and Jagir Singh (spokesmen of the Panthic Committee), Malkiat Singh Ajnala (KCF) and Ajaib Singh (Damdami Taksal) were given training in Pakistan. Iqbal Chaudhury, a Pakistan official, asked Gurjit Singh and Ajaib Singh to declare Khalistan following which Pakistan would step up supply of arms. Gurjit Singh thereafter prevailed upon the Panthic Committee on April 28, 1986, to declare Khalistan from the Golden Temple Complex. Intelligence officers of Pakistan also put some arms smugglers in touch with them.
Harjinder Singh alias Jinder alias Pataka, son of Roop Singh, resident of Mohalla Kothi, District Jammu (arrested on July 7, 1991): Harjinder Singh along with Manjit Singh crossed over to Pakistan on February 10, 1991. There Balkar Singh, Chief General of the Khalistan National Army (KNA), settled in Canada, met them and exhorted them to kill VIPs and high Government officials to create panic among the bureaucracy. The same evening, a Pakistan intelligence official Munshi handed over to them rucksacks containing 7 AK-47 rifles, with 28 magazines, 7 pistols and 14 magazines, 25 stick bombs, 7 wire-cutters and 70 kg of explosives with detonators and fuse wire.
Atinder Pal Singh, alias Harjeet Singh alias Gurbux Singh alias Virji alias Balbir Singh alias Avtar Singh, son of Trilok Singh, resident of Bhopal, Chief of KLO (arrested Oct. 4, 1988): Actively involved in the conspiracy to assassinate the late Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, crossed over to Pakistan in October 1984. After this his stock among the Pakistan intelligence authorities rose and he was taken to different jails where Sikh youth were lodged for training and indoctrination. He again visited Pakistan from September to November 1987 along with his close associate Sukhdev Singh alias Fauji, an ex-serviceman, where they were extensively trained in the handling of explosives and fabrication of IEDs. Their training also included blowing up of bridges, railway tracks and use of road mines to blow up VIP vehicles.
Ghulam Rasool Dar, son of Abdul Aziz Dar of Kupwara, Akbar Tigers (arrested Nov.7, 1990): A brigadier of Pakistan Army declared that they had decided to impart special training to Kashmiri youths and raise its own battalion to be attached with 655 Mujahid Battalion of the Pakistan Army to help their men in the Valley at an opportune time. He disclosed that wireless communication facility was being provided by the Pakistan Army so that militant outfits in the Valley can maintain contact with the Pakistan Army picket at Wahab Dar.
Shahabudin Goro, son of Abdul Salam, resident of Tanda, Uttar Pradesh, working in South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre, Delhi (arrested on March 25, 1991): Shahabuddin Gori had arranged visas for 12 Kashmiri Muslims who were going to Pakistan for arms training in October/November 1989 through Ehsan Chowdhury, a counselor in Pakistan Embassy in New Delhi. Gori visited Pakistan in February/March and met Mohd. Yousuf Shah alias Salahuddin, Patron, HuM, at Rawalpindi and was handed over one letter containing directions addressed to Ahsan Dar, then Chief, HuM, in the Valley and US$ 10,000 for delivering to Ashfaq Hussain Lone, Dy. Chief of Intelligence, HuM. He also met Dr. Ayub Thakur of the World Kashmir Federation Movement (UK) and Salahuddin at Islamabad (Pakistan). Dr. Thakur had earlier sent him Rs. 1.6 million. In November 1990, Lone had escorted Col. Tariq (Pakistan ISI) on a special mission in the Valley.
Mufti Mehrajudeen Farooqui, son of Late Mufti Mohd. Qwamuddin, resident of Srinagar: In March 1990, met Col. Assad of Pakistan ISI at Rawalpindi for coordinating training and arms supply to JKLF. Visited Nepal thrice in 1991 with Ghulam Mohd. Sheikh (code name Khalid) for meeting Kalimullah, Second Secretary, Pakistan Embassy and other Pakistan ISI officials including Brig. Noman, who went specially to meet them at Kathmandu from Pakistan. They were given Rs. 650,000 to hire a shop at Kathmandu for cover in future and a 'safe house' for stay. Kalimullah also promised another Rs. 2.2 million shortly. Earlier, they were given Rs. 400,000 at Srinagar, their expenses in Kathmandu and Rs. 1.4 million at Delhi, meant for militant outfits in theValley.
Mohd. Bhat, son of G.M. Bhat, Nagin, Srinagar (Acting Chief HuM) (arrested Apr 27, 1992): Visited Pakistan/POK twice since 1988 for long durations to undergo arms training and coordinate with Pakistan ISI officials training and funds to IUM cadres. Remained in constant touch with Lt. Gen. Durani, former Chief, ISI, Brig. Shoukat and other ISI officials. Disclosed that the Pakistan ISI is regularly funding all militant outfits and HuM was receiving large funds. ISI had directed HuM to spread militancy outside J&K, particularly to Delhi by kidnapping/killing of important political leaders to create panic/confusion in the administration and among the people. Sheikh Rashid, a Minister in the Nawaz Sharif government, has been using his influence with Pakistani ISI to help HuM for more monetary and material support.
Imtiaz Ahmed Butt alias Shabir Bhai, son of Ghulam Rasool Butt, resident of F-551, Satellite Town, Rawalpindi, Pakistan (arrested Jan. 1, 1993): Was recruited in January 1990 and given 9 months professional arms training by Pakistan Army and discharged before being picked up again in September 1990 for two 10-day training courses in use of firearms. Between these two short courses, he was also given extensive arms training at Al-Badar3 training camp at Posta Faiz, Afghanistan from October to December 1990. Twelve Pakistan nationals and 16 Kashmiri youths also received arms training along with him at Al-Badar3. In May 1991, he joined a group of 20 Pakistan/POK nationals for physical and weapons training in village Bagh by Pakistan Army personnel. After training the group joined regular Pakistan Army personnel for an attack on Indian security posts in Poonch Sector with a view to capturing a small portion of Indian territory for a corridor for free flow of arms/ammunition/men from Pak/POK to J&K State. Inducted into the Valley along with 18 Pakistan trained Kashmiri militants on September 13/14, 1991, along with a huge cache of arms/ammunition, as directed by his Pakistan ISI masters, he worked for Hizb-ul-Mujahideen.
Syed Khalid Hussain Bukhari alias Sajjad Hussain, son of Syed Khadim Hussain Bukhari, resident of Adam Sen, Hattian, Muzaffarabad (POK) (arrested on September 1992): He has disclosed that Pakistani ISI has made arrangement with Pak/POK JEI (Jamait-e-Islami) wherein the JEI is given the task of motivating and recruiting Pak/POK nationals for arms training for subsequent induction into the Kashmir Valley. Under this plan, he was picked up by JEI(POK) and was sent to Khost (Afghanistan) in December 1989 for arms training along with a group of Kashmiri militants. Besides arms training they were also exposed to fundamentalist religious doctrine. On the call of JEI, POK, Bukhari enrolled as a volunteer to fight along with Kashmiri militants. He was finally inducted into the Kashmir Valley in April 1991.
Zulfikar Ali Shah alias Amar, son of Ziarat Ali Shah, resident of Latifabad, Hyderabad, Sindh (Pakistan) (arrested on February 7, 1993): He disclosed that Pakistan ISI has floated and is financing a number of militant outfits like Islami Inqalabi Nahaz, Markaz-e-Dawat-ul-Irshad, Harkat-Mujahideen, Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami to recruit, motivate and impart arms training to youths of Pakistan and other Muslim countries at training camps in Khost and Jalalabad areas in order to make them available to ISI for induction into J&K. He himself, received 75 days arms training along with 60/70 youths from Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Algeria and Bangladesh at Farooq Training Camp (Khost) at the behest of Islami Inqalabi Nahaz. After completion of training, he with a group of 12 Pakistan and Afghan nationals was inducted into Mendhar, Poonch on February 5, 1993, by Col. Murtaza Gillani alias Pir Saheb, Maj. Hassan and Maj. Mir of Pakistan ISI.
Mushtaq Hussain alias Mattoo, son of Ghulam Hussain, resident of Poonch (POK) (arrested on December 21, 992): He had disclosed that a militant outfit 'Jamaat Mustafa' floated by JEI (POK) is run by Pakistan ISI with the help of retired Army officers of Pakistan officers Brig. Akbar Din (Retd), Maj. Fazal Hussain (Retd) and Col. Arif Khan (Retd). The sole aim of this outfit is to train Indian Kashmiri and Pak/POK youths in subversive activities for 'Liberating' Kashmir from India. He was initially motivated by JEI activists, given arms training by ISI men at Khost along with other Pak/POK youth. Thereafter he was inducted into the Jammu region by Brig. Akbar Din in December 1992.
Sujit Das, former Sub-Divisional Chairman of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA): Having voluntarily given up arms, he is now under constant threat from his erstwhile comrades. Along with another ULFA member in February 1992, he had taken 40 Bangladeshis through the Dhubri sector. He was given a Muslim name and a passport with a Pakistan visa and put on a PIA flight to Karachi in March 1992. Received by a "military type" person he was taken to Rawalpindi from where along with 12 other ULFA militants he was taken deep into the jungle under Pakistan Army security for 3 months of training. They were taught to handle AK-47s, AK-56, M20 and Browning guns as well as a variety of explosives. He was brought back to India via Bangladesh.
Gowher Ameen Meer, Hyderabad resident and student at the Nizamia Tibbi College: He disclosed that he was an agent of the Ikhwan-ul-Muslimeen (IUM) and that a well-knit terrorist network had been established in Hyderabad. Recruits were handpicked individually and sent via Calcutta and Bangladesh to Karachi from where they were sent on to camps for training in firearms. One of his recruits Liyakat Khan disclosed that they were in direct touch with the HuM Chief, Hilal Beg in Islamabad and under his instructions had made a list of important installations in Hyderabad, south India, to be attacked by terrorists which resulted in the explosions on August 12 and September 12, 1993.
Revelations of Pakistani links by Lal Singh alias Manjit Singh: From his interrogation, it was found that after vigilance on Punjab border was strengthened, new routes were explored and used, with the help of ISI, in the Jammu and Rajasthan sectors. As the ISI took over the entire responsibility of weapons smuggling, it began sending the shipments with the help of its own smugglers for direct delivery to the terrorists in India. Another important operational link of Lal Singh was with Altaf Hussain, Member, National Assembly, to whom he was introduced by Amirul Azim. Pakistan JEI leaders always played an important guiding and motivational role for the Sikh terrorists. At the time of Lal Singh's arrest, a piece of paper, containing the contact numbers of several foreign-based Sikh terrorists was received from him. Lal Singh confirmed that most of these foreign-based contacts were remitting large funds to the Second Panthic Committee coordinators in Pakistan.
While in the US along with Gur Pratap Virk and other terrorists he underwent mercenary training at the institute of Frank Camper in Alabama to familiarise himself with the handling of AK-47 rifles, submachine guns, weapons and a host of terrorist techniques. In his stay of over 3 years in Canada, he was associated with the ISYF and terrorist leaders like Talwinder Singh Parmar and Lakhbir Singh Rode. Lal Singh arrived in Pakistan in October 1988 and established his base at Lahore together with Satinder Pal Singh Gill and Balbir Singh. His activities over the next three years were conducted in close collaboration with the international Sikh terrorists based in Pakistan, senior ISI officials and some top activists of the Pak JEI.
After Satinder Pal Singh Gill and Balbir Singh had to leave Pakistan following the attack on an Indian diplomat at Dera Sahib Gurdwara in Lahore, he became the Chief Coordinator for the Second Panthic Committee groups in Pakistan. He was also a key figure for receiving funds from the UK, USA and Canada to finance the supply of weapons and other terrorist-related activities in India. During his stay he personally handled over 5 million rupees for this purpose. During his stay in Pakistan, the ISI changed Lal Singh's accommodation four times. He was also imparted intensive training in the NWFP (North West Frontier Province of Pakistan) in the handling of AK rifles, rocket launchers and explosives. After his presence in Pakistan was exposed and the FBI and Canadians started pressing authorities for his extradition, he was advised by the Pakistan ISI to escape to India. They provided him with yet another forged passport in the name of Mohammed Iqbal Ahmed and facilitated his entry through Bombay on an Air Lanka flight. During his entry he was accompanied by a Pakistan agent Sharif.
Statements of Pakistani leaders: Perhaps the most direct evidence of Pakistan's role in aiding and assisting terrorism in India, is contained in the public statements made to this effect by important Pakistani leaders.
In his earlier term as Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Nawaz Sharif said: "The episode of Hazratbal is a glorious chapter in the four years long popular, spontaneous, indigenous and widespread uprising of the Kashmiri people".
The former Prime Minister of Pakistan Ms Benazir Bhutto saluted "the courage and fortitude of the Kashmir freedom fighters under the most arduous circumstances," even as they occupied the holiest of Muslim shrines in Kashmir, and held innocent people hostage in it, and threatened to blow it up.
Lahore, January 16, 1992 Speaking at a FRIENDS seminar, Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg (Chief of Army Staff) said that "crores were being spent on keeping the Kashmiris struggle alive," and added "I wish I could tell you the details in this regard."
Sardar Sikander Hayat Khan, POK President, addressing a Jehad Conference organised by the Muslim Conference, said that "Held Kashmir would not be liberated by holding conferences and meetings and raising slogans" and urged for "extending help to the freedom fighters of Kashmir."
Press Reports from Pakistan:
May 1, 1990 In her despatch datelined Muzaffarabad, Kathy Evans of The Guardian reported: "The President of Azad Kashmir state in Pakistan, Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan, has accused the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front of containing 'terrorist elements.'" September 15, 1991 talking to Nawa-i-Waqt (Pakistan), Sardar Qayyum said: "Islam would strengthen freedom movement and determination of accession of Pakistan. Pakistan should courageously announce that it was extending every possible help to resistance movement as it was not a secessionist movement but movement of accession to Pakistan."
November 20, 1990 Nawa-i-Waqt, reported that Mumtaz Rathore, Prime Minister of POK had decided to utilise Rs. 430 million worth of the Zakat fund to extend practical aid to the Kashmiri militants.
Nation (Pakistan), May 13, 1991 Sheikh Rashid Ahmad, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting, has said that the present liberation struggle in Held Kashmir will continue till realisation of its objectives. Addressing public rallies at five different places in London and Birmingham on Saturday and Sunday, he said any deviation from the Kashmir freedom movement would be a national and religious crime.
Nation (Pakistan), November 26, 1990 Mumtaz Rathore, then Prime Minister of POK: "The very purpose of the state (of POK) is to serve as base camp for the liberation of Held Kashmir and Kashmir."
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