RAW involvement in East Pakistan: Pakistan Daily

David Miller Smith

US report details direct RAW involvement in East Pakistan secession

A sensational American report has confirmed the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India’s most powerful intelligence agency, was directly involved in the secession of East Pakistan into Bangladesh, and is currently engaged in similar activities. RAW has a long history of activity in Bangladesh supporting both secular forces and the area’s Hindu minority, masterminding the break up of Pakistan in 1971,

says the report made available The report has been prepared by the innocent sounding Federation of American Scientists (FAS), a group which is however engaged in analysis and advocacy on science, technology and public policy concerning global security, especially about countries which have nuclear capability.

It is a privately funded non-profit policy organisation, whose Board of Sponsors includes 55 American Nobel laureates. FAS was originally founded as the Federation of Atomic Scientists in 1945 by members of the Manhattan Project, who produced the first atomic bomb. RAW is extensively engaged in disinformation campaigns, espionage, sabotage and terrorism against Pakistan and other neighboring countries, reveals the sensational secret report. It also gives details of the truly alarming involvement of RAW in terrorist activities in Pakistan. The report reveals the involvement of RAW in Bangladesh dating from the 1960s, when it promoted dissatisfaction against Pakistan in the then East Pakistan, including funding Mujibur Rahman’s general election in 1970 and providing training and arming to the Mukti Bahini. The report claims an estimated 35,000 RAW agents have entered Pakistan at various times between 1983-99, with 12,000 having worked in the past or working presently in Sindh, 10,000 in Punjab 8,000 in North West Frontier Province and 5,000 in Balochistan. “As many as 40 terrorist camps are currently operating at Rajasthan, East Punjab, [occupied] Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh and other parts of India and are run by RAW’s Special Service Bureau [SSB],” the report reveals. The report further confirms that throughout the Afghan War, RAW was responsible for the planning and execution of terrorist activities in Pakistan to deter Islamabad from supporting the Afghan liberation movement against India’s ally, the Soviet Union.

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Indian intelligence 'linked' to attack on Sri Lankan team: adnkronos

Lahore, 3 March (AKI) - By Syed Saleem Shahzad - Indian intelligence services are behind Tuesday's attack against the Sri Lankan cricket team in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, according to Pakistani analysts. At least five policemen died in the ambush by 12 masked gunmen, and six cricketers and their assistant coach were injured.

Some analysts said India's Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) was behind the attack against the team bus outside Lahore's Ghaddafi Stadium, in which a Pakistani test umpire was critically injured.

“The event was crafted on the pattern of Mumbai attacks of November, 2008 and its aims and objectives are apparently to damage Pakistan’s interests," a defence expert retired major general Jamshed Ayaz told Adnkronos International (AKI).

He was referring to the deadly assault against tourist targets in the Indian financial capital of Mumbai, which killed at least 170 people. India blamed outlawed militant Kashmiri separaratist group Laskar-e-Toiba for the Mumbai attacks.

"This job could only have been done by forces allied with Pakistan’s enemy country,” Ayaz claimed.

The test match has been called off and the Sri Lankan cricket team has flown home, reportedly badly shaken by the attack.

“It is not my place to comment on who was behind the incident but obviously Pakistanis are cricket lovers and they would never do that," former Pakistan Test Cricketer Zaheer Abbas told AKI.

"There is a possibility of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam being behind the event,” said Abbas.

But a spokesperson of the Sri Lankan Embassy in Islamabad denied that the militants from the LTTE were behind the attack. The spokesperson said however that the police motorcade escorting the Sri Lankan cricket team had been the target and that the cricketers were just caught in the crossfire.

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