ISI enticing poor Meos in Haryana?

By Rajesh Ahuja

CHANDIGARH, SEP. 2. The traditionally backward Mewat area of Haryana and Rajasthan is becoming a hotbed of Pakistan Inter- State Intelligence (ISI) activities, according to highly placed sources here.

Intelligence agencies and the State police are concerned over reports that the ISI is enticing innocent and poor Meos to spread ``terror'' in and around Delhi. Gurgaon and Faridabad in Haryana and Alwar and Bharatpur in Rajasthan are becoming the centres for ISI activities, the sources disclosed on condition of anonymity.

Also, the ISI uses ``relatives'' to lure the Meos to work for it. The modus operandi is simple. The ``relatives'' who are based in Pakistan are either smuggled into India or they visit the Mewat region for some legitimate reason like attending family functions. They present a ``distorted'' picture of what is going on in Pakistan and lure them to work for the ISI which will remove their ``poverty''.

Highly-placed sources say the recent arrest of a junior level Indian Air Force officer, Sayyad Urjamma, in Gurgaon Air Force Colony for allegedly aiding and abetting an ISI-sponsored outfit, Deendar Anjuman, has alerted the State police to mount maximum vigil. The Haryana police were till then unaware of the activities of Sayyad Urjamma who was arrested by a special team of the Karnataka police. The Deendar Anjuman allegedly has involved in engineering blasts in churches across Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh as per the ``guidelines'' given to it by ISI.

It is common knowledge that ISI agents move about freely in the Mewat region enrolling recruits and distributing weapons and fake currency to their ``sympathisers.''

According to senior police officers, the Haryana police have made arrangements to nab the ISI agents. It has also beefed up its intelligence network to thwart ISI plans for making recruitments.

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