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NEW DELHI: Even as the security establishment counters the pan-Indian network of Laskher-e-Taiba (LeT) and its indigenous arm Indian Mujahideen, the Pakistan-based terror outfit is busy opening another front close to the northeast region, along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.
Inputs with R&AW, India's external intelligence agency, confirm that LeT and its over ground avatar, Jamaat ud Dawah (JuD), are working to extend their footprint along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by riding piggyback on the sectarian violence targeted against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine state. While JuD strongman Hafiz Muhammad Saeed is leading the anti-Myanmar campaign, espousing the cause of Rohingyas from various public platforms in Pakistan, his terror subordinates have been planning and undertaking visits to the Bangladesh-Myanmar border region. Agencies here fear the Bangladesh-Myanmar border may emerge as a new theatre of jihad in the not-too-distant future.
Apart from creating a new forum, Difa-e-Musalman Arakan (Burma) Conference (Defence of Muslims in Myanmar), in mid -2012 to mobilize support for an anti-Myanmar government campaign, LeT/JuD had deputed a two-member team comprising JuD spokesperson Nadeem Awan and JuD Publications Wing member Shahid Mahmood Rehmatullah last August to forge covert links with like-minded Islamic organizations in Bangladesh and Myanmar.
The team, after its return from Bangladesh, held a press conference in Karachi where they castigated Dhaka for neglecting the welfare of Rohingya refugees who had crossed over to Bangladesh from Myanmar. Intelligence agencies here believe the clandestine visit of JuD/LeT operatives to Bangladesh was linked to the bout of communal violence, targeted against Buddhists, which erupted in Cox's Bazaar and adjoining areas, soon thereafter.
Interestingly, other terror outfits such as Harkat-ul-****** Islami, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Jamaat-ul- Mujahideen Bangladesh - known to have links with Rohingya NGOs like Rohingya Solidarity Organisation - are also trying to exploit the Rohingyas' plight to establish new bases in Bangladesh. Bangladeshi security agencies are examining if Jammat-ul-Arakan, a new outfit comprising elements of JMB and extremist-minded Rohingyan activists, is running militant camps in Bandarban district along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.
Links between Pakistani outfits and Rohingyas have come to the notice of Bangladeshi security agencies in the recent past. Bangladeshi Police traced the funds in bank account of one Maulana Mohammad Yunus, arrested last August from a madarasa in Rau Upazilla of Cox's Bazaar, to Maulana Shabir Ali Ahmed, a Karachi-based, Jaish-linked Bangladeshi national of Rohingya origin. Another madarasa operator, Abdur Rehman alias Imran alias Mustafa of Teknaf, Cox's Bazaar, is suspected to have coordinated arrival of Pakistan-trained Myanmarese mujahideen in various locations of Cox's Bazaar in end of last year.
The Bangladesh agencies tracking Shafiul Alam, a dual Pakistani-Nepalese passport holder who travels frequently from Pakistan to Bangladesh, recently found that he and Abdul Karim alias Mohammed Nur Alam, a Nepal-based Rohingya operative linked to hawala and fake currency trafficking networks, had been trying to set up training camps along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border for Rohingya extremists, in consultation with Pakistan-based LeT commander Ustad Abdul Hamid.
Link - LeT, IM busy opening terror front along Bangla-Myanmar border, intel inputs say - The Times of India
Inputs with R&AW, India's external intelligence agency, confirm that LeT and its over ground avatar, Jamaat ud Dawah (JuD), are working to extend their footprint along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by riding piggyback on the sectarian violence targeted against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine state. While JuD strongman Hafiz Muhammad Saeed is leading the anti-Myanmar campaign, espousing the cause of Rohingyas from various public platforms in Pakistan, his terror subordinates have been planning and undertaking visits to the Bangladesh-Myanmar border region. Agencies here fear the Bangladesh-Myanmar border may emerge as a new theatre of jihad in the not-too-distant future.
Apart from creating a new forum, Difa-e-Musalman Arakan (Burma) Conference (Defence of Muslims in Myanmar), in mid -2012 to mobilize support for an anti-Myanmar government campaign, LeT/JuD had deputed a two-member team comprising JuD spokesperson Nadeem Awan and JuD Publications Wing member Shahid Mahmood Rehmatullah last August to forge covert links with like-minded Islamic organizations in Bangladesh and Myanmar.
The team, after its return from Bangladesh, held a press conference in Karachi where they castigated Dhaka for neglecting the welfare of Rohingya refugees who had crossed over to Bangladesh from Myanmar. Intelligence agencies here believe the clandestine visit of JuD/LeT operatives to Bangladesh was linked to the bout of communal violence, targeted against Buddhists, which erupted in Cox's Bazaar and adjoining areas, soon thereafter.
Interestingly, other terror outfits such as Harkat-ul-****** Islami, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Jamaat-ul- Mujahideen Bangladesh - known to have links with Rohingya NGOs like Rohingya Solidarity Organisation - are also trying to exploit the Rohingyas' plight to establish new bases in Bangladesh. Bangladeshi security agencies are examining if Jammat-ul-Arakan, a new outfit comprising elements of JMB and extremist-minded Rohingyan activists, is running militant camps in Bandarban district along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.
Links between Pakistani outfits and Rohingyas have come to the notice of Bangladeshi security agencies in the recent past. Bangladeshi Police traced the funds in bank account of one Maulana Mohammad Yunus, arrested last August from a madarasa in Rau Upazilla of Cox's Bazaar, to Maulana Shabir Ali Ahmed, a Karachi-based, Jaish-linked Bangladeshi national of Rohingya origin. Another madarasa operator, Abdur Rehman alias Imran alias Mustafa of Teknaf, Cox's Bazaar, is suspected to have coordinated arrival of Pakistan-trained Myanmarese mujahideen in various locations of Cox's Bazaar in end of last year.
The Bangladesh agencies tracking Shafiul Alam, a dual Pakistani-Nepalese passport holder who travels frequently from Pakistan to Bangladesh, recently found that he and Abdul Karim alias Mohammed Nur Alam, a Nepal-based Rohingya operative linked to hawala and fake currency trafficking networks, had been trying to set up training camps along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border for Rohingya extremists, in consultation with Pakistan-based LeT commander Ustad Abdul Hamid.
Link - LeT, IM busy opening terror front along Bangla-Myanmar border, intel inputs say - The Times of India
