New Delhi, March 30
The presence of terror camps in Pakistan continues to haunt the security establishment in India, which still feels that ISI-sponsored outfits like the JeM, LeT and Al-Badr were responsible for carrying out terrorist attacks in different parts of the country.

“Terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and PoK remains largely intact and continues to be used by Pak-based and ISI-sponsored outfits like Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Toiba and Al-Badr for carrying out acts of terror in different parts of the country,” the union home ministry said.

Noting that there was no change in the attitude of the ISI in training terror groups like the LeT and JeM, national security advisor M.K. Narayanan recently said one of the greatest dangers India faced were terror camps being run on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border by the Al-Qaida and the Taliban.

He said Pakistan continued to acquire missiles and other weapons and its military strategy remained India-centric. According to the latest Status Paper on Internal Security brought out by the MHA, these outfits were “well organised, interlinked, and have the latest hardware and communication equipment”.

The current strategy of terrorist groups was to recruit and train local modules and activate them when required; maintain flow of finances to sustain terror network and supply hardware through land and sea routes. Their strategy was also to target vital installations, economic infrastructure, VIPs and political leaders; attack soft targets like market places, mass transit system, places of worship and congregations, and also provoke communal tension.

The home ministry said terrorist attacks like the Samjhauta blast, Mecca Mosque attack, twin explosions in Hyderabad and incidents at the Dargah Sharif in Ajmer, besides the blasts in court premises in Uttar Pradesh “have been committed by externally based and sponsored terrorist outfits, with some local help”.

A senior MHA official said some recent incidents suggested that outfits like the LeT and JeM used territory and elements in Bangladesh and Nepal for movement of men and material. The involvement of HUJAI-Bangladesh had come to notice in some of the recent incidents of terrorist violence, he said.

He said Indian youth were recruited by the LeT and HUJAI-BD, for training in Pakistan and PoK, and re-launched into India “for sabotage and subversive activities”.

As part of measures taken to meet the challenge, the official said states were regularly sensitised and specific intelligence inputs shared with them by Central agencies about the plans and designs of terrorist outfits.

He pointed out that a number of terrorist modules had been busted in different states by the state security and intelligence agencies in association with central agencies. — PTI