ISI Doubles Incentives to Step up Terror in India

January 6, 2003

ISI has doubled the money for terrorist organisations as an inducement to continue strikes in India even as every terrorist outfit has been directed to maintain its launching detachment unit along the Line of Control (LoC) under the strict supervision of ISI officials.

According to a report submitted to the Government, ISI has set up a Refugee Maintenance Cell (RMC), which provides daily allowances to terrorists of every outfit.

Quoting interrogation report of several Pakistani terrorists arrested by security forces, the report said the RMC was headed by a retired Pakistani colonel identified as Abdul Rehman.

Rehman, who had earlier served in Bangladesh, is also in-charge of providing additional allowances to terrorists staying in refugee camps. Those staying in these camps were shown to the world community as migrants from Jammu and Kashmir.

The amount spent on launching of terrorist detachments into the valley is also taken from the operational money, the report said and added that every outfit had its launching detachments located along the LoC under supervision of ISI officials.

The report said as per the new funding formula, small terrorist outfits like Al-Barq were getting seven lakh per month for their operational expenses while larger outfits like Hizbul Mujahideen were benefited by nearly Rs 50 lakh per month.

The money was handed over to the outfit's branch in Pakistan and they had to find ways and means to send it across the border to their cadres, it said.

The report said that in order to maintain an easy flow of money into the valley, ISI had enlisted several Dubai-based businessmen who pass on to monetary assistance to the terrorist groups.

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