Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee talks with PM

Buddha talks on ISI, NE terror with PM
KOLKATA, Jan 11 (UNI): West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today discussed with Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh the alarming growth of terrorism in neighbouring countries that had been threatening India’s eastern and north-eastern States.
Official sources said during his 40-minute meeting with Dr Singh, the Chief Minister discussed the situation in both Bangladesh and Nepal and the way the ISI, the Intelligence agency of Pakistan, had been encouraging the Islamic terrorists, rebel Indian insurgents groups and the Maoists.
Mr Bhattacharjee explained to Dr Singh the danger the eastern and north-eastern States, especially West Bengal, Tripura and Assam, had been facing because of these developments in Bangladesh and Nepal.
The sources said the Chief Minister also expressed concern over the way Bangladesh had fast been turning into one of the biggest markets for clandestine arms, which were being used by the Islamic terrorists, the Indian insurgent groups and the Maoists.
They said the ISI, which had been of late concentrating more on the eastern part of the subcontinent, had been helping the Islamic terrorists and Indian insurgents groups having camps in Bangladesh and through them the Maoist guerrillas with the help of a section of officials in Bangladesh Government, the NSI, the Intelligence agency of Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Army and the Bangladesh Rifles.
Mr Bhattacharjee also urged Dr Singh to create pressure on Bangladesh so that it could be refrained from encouraging terrorists and anti-Indian forces. The State Government had earlier submitted the list of training camps being run in Bangladesh by different terrorist groups to the Centre. The Centre had already taken up the issue with the Bangladesh Government, which had all along been denying the existence of any terrorist camps in its territory.