Credible information available with Indian intelligence agencies suggests that Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), has directed the Indian Mujahideen to launch a fresh spate of “high value terror attacks in the country”.’
The ISI’s strategy is to hit India economically at a time when many countries in the world are facing an economic slowdown. The ISI wants Indian Mujahideen to create an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty in Indian so that multi-national companies operating in India shut shop.
At the same time, the terror attacks will also deter other MNCs that are planning to invest n India.
The intelligence inputs also suggest that the ISI is using Karachi-based Bhatkal brothers, Riyaz and Iqbal, who in turn have directed the elusive Yaseen Bhatkal, the India chief of IM, to carryout this operation.
Yaseen Bhatkal has been on the run ever since the Intelligence Bureau and the Delhi police’s crime branch smashed a major module of the IM, known as the Darbhanga module, with the arrest of about a dozen key operatives. Intelligence inputs indicate that Bhatkal might have crossed over to either Nepal or Bangladesh to avoid his arrest.
“During interrogation some of the members of the Darbhanga module had also revealed that Yasin Bhatkal had a plan to target the Indian economy. But they did not have details. It now seems the after lying low for sometime the ISI is once again re-activating the plan by using Yasin Bhatkal. Thus there is a possibility that the terror outfit may target some economic institutions,” a top intelligence official said.
According to highly-placed sources, both the Intelligence Bureau and city police’s crime branch have some concrete leads in this case and are working on them. If required, sources said, special units of other state police will also be roped in.