Pakistan accuses India of training Baloch militants
Pakistani Sen. Mushahid Hussain Sayed, a close adviser to President Pervez Musharraf, is alleging that India's Research and Analysis Wing intelligence agency is training 600 Baloch militants in Afghanistan.
Sayed charges that India is playing a "Great Game" inside Afghanistan, using it to destabilize Pakistan.
Sayed makes his claims in an interview in an upcoming issue of Outlook India magazine, to be published April 24.
Sayed is the Pakistani Senate's foreign relations committee chairman and secretary-general of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League. As head of a parliamentary committee, Sayed recommended that the government grant autonomy to Balochistan.
According to Sayed, India is using its embassy in Kabul and four consulates in Kandahar, Jalalabad, Mazar-e-Sharif and Herat to undermine Pakistan.
Sayed said, "Indian diplomatic and Research and Analysis Wing, or RAW, officials have significant ingress in the Afghan Ministry of Tribal Affairs, and are exploiting it to conduct covert activities. Indian agents are instrumental in arranging meetings of tribal elders and Afghans with dual nationalities with Indian consulate officials in Jalalabad, and assisting them in spotting and recruiting suitable tribal elders from Jalalabad and Pakistan's North and South Waziristan Agencies for covert activities."
When questioned about the extent of RAW's presence inside Afghanistan after the collapse of the Taliban in November 2001, Sayed replied, "RAW has established its training camps in Afghanistan in collaboration with the Northern Alliance remnants. Approximately 600 ferraris, or Baloch tribal dissidents, are getting specialized training to handle explosives, engineer bomb blasts and use sophisticated weapons in these camps."
Sayed added, "India is gradually increasing the number of its paramilitary personnel in Afghanistan. It is stationing them there on the pretext of providing security and protection to the Border Roads Organization, which is constructing the Zaranj-Dilaram road, and its consulates. From a few personnel, the strength of Indian troops has reached almost that of a company size force and even includes Black Cat Commandos."
Sayed charges that India is playing a "Great Game" inside Afghanistan, using it to destabilize Pakistan.
Sayed makes his claims in an interview in an upcoming issue of Outlook India magazine, to be published April 24.
Sayed is the Pakistani Senate's foreign relations committee chairman and secretary-general of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League. As head of a parliamentary committee, Sayed recommended that the government grant autonomy to Balochistan.
According to Sayed, India is using its embassy in Kabul and four consulates in Kandahar, Jalalabad, Mazar-e-Sharif and Herat to undermine Pakistan.
Sayed said, "Indian diplomatic and Research and Analysis Wing, or RAW, officials have significant ingress in the Afghan Ministry of Tribal Affairs, and are exploiting it to conduct covert activities. Indian agents are instrumental in arranging meetings of tribal elders and Afghans with dual nationalities with Indian consulate officials in Jalalabad, and assisting them in spotting and recruiting suitable tribal elders from Jalalabad and Pakistan's North and South Waziristan Agencies for covert activities."
When questioned about the extent of RAW's presence inside Afghanistan after the collapse of the Taliban in November 2001, Sayed replied, "RAW has established its training camps in Afghanistan in collaboration with the Northern Alliance remnants. Approximately 600 ferraris, or Baloch tribal dissidents, are getting specialized training to handle explosives, engineer bomb blasts and use sophisticated weapons in these camps."
Sayed added, "India is gradually increasing the number of its paramilitary personnel in Afghanistan. It is stationing them there on the pretext of providing security and protection to the Border Roads Organization, which is constructing the Zaranj-Dilaram road, and its consulates. From a few personnel, the strength of Indian troops has reached almost that of a company size force and even includes Black Cat Commandos."
posted by Marko at 4/18/2006 05:39:00 PM
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