TERRORISM IN INDIA EXTRACTS FROM INDEPENDENT REPORTS FROM THE WESTERN, PAKISTANI, AND INDIAN PRESS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY


        India, as attested by the CIA,  successive  Administrations,  and
        senior State Department officials, is facing an expensive and in-
        direct conflict with Pakistan.  Pakistan, by  training  and  sup-
        porting insurgents in Punjab and Kashmir, has induced instability
        in these border regions.  As evidenced in Punjab,  Kashmiri  ter-
        rorists  are successfully propagating a dis- information campaign
        alleging human rights excesses, rapes, and the like.   The  Press
        Council  of India, an independent, statutory body of journalists,
        judiciary, business men, and other eminent Indians examined these
        allegations  closely and has released a report titled "Crisis and
        Credibility:  Lancer Paper IV." According to the report, although
        there  were human rights excesses, a majority of the  allegations
        were militant propaganda.  In instances where the  security  per-
        sonnel  were  found guilty, they were immediately punished.  In a
        recent edition of a reputed video magazine, "Newstrack,"  several
        women  acknowledged having falsely accused the security personnel
        at the insistence of terrorists.  Many of these women, after hav-
        ing  been repeatedly raped by the terrorists, have now joined the
        Border Security Force (BSF) and are now urging others to take re-
        fuge with the BSF.  As evidenced in that report, the popular sen-
        timent  is now against the insurgency it once favored.

        The terrorists have systematically silenced dissenting voices  --
        Vice-chancellors,  judges,  lawyers,  teachers, journalists, pri-
        ests, and families of security personnel  are  among  those  mur-
        dered.   This  terror  campaign  that runs across religious boun-
        daries has resulted in the exodus  of  several  hundred  thousand
        civilians  from  the Kashmir valley.  Many, never to return again
        and claim property they legally own.  Once prosperous areas,  the
        border regions now have struggling economies.  Development aid is
        necessary to restore normalcy and bring hope to the people.

        Recently, the New York Newsday and The  Statesman  quoted  a  CIA
        study  ("Heroin  in  Pakistan:  Sowing the Wind")  to demonstrate
        that Pakistan has been using profits from  state-sponsored  drug-
        trafficking  activities to fund Sikh and Kshmiri terrorists.  The
        Times of India reports that  Pakistan  sponsored  gun-running  is
        rampant not only in Punjab and Kashmir, but also Maharashtra, Gu-
        jarat (Ahmedabad), and indirectly Bihar (sale through Punjab  ul-
        tras).

        The United Press of India reported an official of the  then Nawaz
        Sharif  Government's  cabinet,  Sardar  Assef  (then minister for
        economic affairs) resigning from the cabinet because ``Prime min-
        isters or foreign ministers of every Muslim country that I visit-
        ed complained against the presence  of  terrorists  on  Pakistani
        soil.   Every  time I returned, I informed Sharif and the Foreign
        Office, but nothing whatsoever was done.''  He further added that
        "nothing was done" when the Tunisian Prime Minister asked Islama-
        bad for help in catching a militant who had  established  himself
        in Pakistan.

        The Washinton Post in its analysis on U.S.-Pakistan relations re-
        poted  "In recent weeks, Pakistan has figured, if circumstancial-
        ly, in a rash of high-profile terrorist  incidents.   People  who
        have come from, fled to, trained in or had other ties to Pakistan
        have cropped up, sometimes in  tenuous  ways,  in  reports  about
        bombings in Bombay and at the World Trade Center in New York, the
        shootings outside CIA headquarters in Langley, VA.,  and  attacks
        on police and tourists in Egypt."

        The Internation Herald Tribune  repoted  that  "Muslim  guerillas
        fighting  the  India  government in Kashmir acknowledge that they
        are receiving arms and training from Pakistan, as well as  advice
        from Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence Agency...In the Indi-
        an state of Punjab, radical Sikh separatists  continue  to  wreak
        havoc with weapons obtained in Pakistan."

        The Time analyzed that the "ISI emphasis on promoting pro- Pakis-
        tan parties stems from Islamabad's eagreness to claim Kashmir for
        itself; a stress on Islam reflects  the  influence  of  Jamaat-e-
        Islami,  a  small  but  highly  influential party that is part of
        Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's ruling coalition.  The party...(is)
        convinced that the only legitimate uprising for Muslims is Jehad,
        a holy war based on Islamic teachings." The Statesman in an  edi-
        torial on the assassination of Dr. Guroo stated that "The killing
        of Dr. Guroo follows a familiar pattern.  Mirwaiz  Maulvi  Farooq
        and  Mir  Mustafa  were  assasinated  in 1990 when the Janata Dal
        Government had initiated an equally  hasty  peace  process  which
        ended  abruptly  in a way that the rabid pro- Pakistani militants
        interpreted as a victory for them.  It is likely that Pakistan is
        involved  in  the  command  or  operational part of the crime, or
        both, since peace in Kashmir would signal a political  and  mili-
        tary defeat for Islamabad and follow the familiar strategy of us-
        ing teh Hezbul Mujahideen to eliminate peace brokers  in  Kashmir
        and thwarting even preliminary attempts at negotiations."

        The India Today's Newstrack video magazine's editorial comment on
        the  terrorism  in Kashmir and alleged human rights violations by
        the security forces "....For years we have been hearing  the  so-
        called  "excesses"  of  the security forces in Kashmir.  Amenesty
        international and other organizations have  been  drowing  us  in
        oceans  of  crocodoile  tears.  There have been excesses and they
        have been covered by the press.  But why don't the bleeding heart
        liberals  worry about the terrorist atrocities in the state?  Why
        dont they worry about innocent young girls rapend  by  the  mili-
        tants  and  the  young  boys  inducted  into the movement at gun-
        point.  It may be fashionable to lecture the security  forces  on
        human  rights.   But  what about the human rights of the innocent
        civilians who become victims of terrorism?""

        The Times of India in an editorial following  the  killing  of  a
        fdreaded  terrorist  and  the violence that ensued commented "The
        three-day long orgy of violence and destruction  of  property  in
        the Kashmir valley after the death of Muhammed Maqbool Ilahi, the
        Hizbul Mujahedeen division commander for Srinagar, has effective-
        ly derailed Mr. Rajesh Pilot's best-laid plans to restore normal-
        cy in the troubled state.  Perhaps this was precisely the  inten-
        tion  of  the Hizbul cadres and their puppeteers across the bord-
        er."

        Independent and responsible sources in the  West,  Pakistan,  and
        India have repeatedly reported Pakistan's complicity in assisting
        terrorists activities in India (and many other  countries).   The
        wave  of  terror  that  it  has resulted has caused unsettled and
        caused distress to millions of people and has  diverted  millions
        of dollars from economic development into fighting a wasteful and
        bloody war.

        The Nation quoted the then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif  as saying
        "He  (Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif) said that Kashmir would become
        part of Pakistan and thanksgiving prayers  would  be  offered  in
        Srinagar..."  The Nation again reported that "The Gates Mission (
        led by Robert Gates, Deputy National Security Adviser to the U.S.
        President)    has   confirmed  that  the  information  (regarding
        Pakistan's running 31 training camps for the Kashmiri  militants)
        was supplied by the Pakistani officials."