India alleged on Tuesday that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) continued to support various terrorist outfits in order to spread violence in India. “… As per available intelligence inputs, Pakistan-based terrorist outfits, particularly Lashkar-e-Taiba (LT), Jaish-e-Mohammed, Hizbul Mujahideen etc., continue to receive support from ISI,” Indian Minister of State for Home Jitendra Singh told the Lok Sabha in a written reply, reported PTI.
He said the Indian government was committed to combating terrorism, extremism and separatism in all its forms and manifestations as no cases, genuine or imaginary, could justify terrorism. The government, he said, had taken various measures in this regard. Replying to another question, the minister said according to available information, investigation into terrorism related cases by state police forces and disclosures of arrested persons revealed names of a few terrorist elements in Bihar having links with the LT. “On the basis of inputs, four LT operatives of Bihar were identified and arrested between 2004 and 2009,” he said.
SPY MODULES: Singh also told the Lok Sabha a total of 46 Pakistan-backed spy modules were busted by the security forces since 2008 in the country. However, Singh said, no cases of espionage specifically by people working in foreign companies had been reported.