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ULFA acting on behalf of ISI: Army official April 20, 2007 17:29 IST
The United Liberation Front of Asom is creating terror in Assam on behalf of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intellegence agency, a top army official heading anti-insurgency operations in the state said on Friday. "The ULFA is fighting the jehadi war on behalf of the ISI and taking help from jehadi elements. No doubt they (ULFA The ULFA is outsourcing explosives and improvised explosive devises from the jehadi elements, he said. "At the moment, the jehadis are like backroom boys. They do the gun-running, drug supplying and run fake note rackets," he said. Asked if the army was targeting such jehadi elements in its anti-militancy operations in Assam, Chhabra said, "We are Security forces operating under the Unified Command Structure had achieved major successes in the recent months, Put on the back foot, the ULFA's strike force, the 28 battalion operating in upper Assam, had also been weakened, The leaders of 28 battalion were under pressure even though new cadres had been recruited to replace those killed K Anurag in Guwahati adds: Meanwhile, ULFA has called upon all political parties in Assam to join hands to mount pressure on Government of India to provide information about whereabouts of 'missing' ULFA leaders whose wives are on indefinite fast since March 21 last. Lt Gen Chhabra said that the hunger strike was a ploy by the ULFA to divert people's attention from core issues of violence and extortion perpetrated by the militant group in the state. In the editorial in the latest issue of its mouthpiece, Freedom, a copy of which was e-mailed to the media, the insurgent group warned that in case something unwanted happened to the fasting women, the political parties in the state should Regarding the on-going battle in court after a habeas corpus petition filed by wives of 'missing' ULFA leaders, the ULFA said even the Indian judiciary had failed to elicit proper information from Government of India in respect
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