ULFA, Naxals join hands, courtesy ISI

Manjula Bhattacharya

Guwahati, December 29
The Centre and Governments of Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh are worried over the reported move by the Pakistan-based ISI to combine the activities of North-East-based militant outfits, like ULFA, Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Muzahiddin and Naxalites in the country.

Highly placed sources in the Central Intelligence Department, corroborated by state intelligence here, disclosed that of late the ISI had been trying, to correlate the activities of Naxales as well as ULFA and Harkat -ul-Muzahiddin in order to pose both external and internal threat to India for an effective bargain on the Jammu and Kashmir issue.

It may be noted that the state government here was alerted by the Centre a few days ago about the links between ULFA and the Harkat-ul-Muzahiddin where 50 Muzahiddin activists were reportedly hired by ULFA to organise violence in different parts of Assam

Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhatacharjee recently expressed concern over the growing ISI activities in north Bengal and the patronage extended to it by neighbouring Bangladesh, on helping the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) backed by ULFA.

After joining hands, the People’s War Group (PWG) and the Maoist Communist Party (MCC) have already developed links with the Maoist Communist Party of Nepal to coordinate their activities to create a “compact revolutionary zone” from Nepal via West Bengal through north Bengal in Siliguri and stretched till Andhra Pradesh through Orissa.
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