Chechens, others, new terror trainers in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir
Dated 10/8/2005
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10 August 2005: Failed or reduced terrorist infiltrations this summer in Jammu and Kashmir are partly on account of a shortage of instructors in mushrooming militant training camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, but Islamic extremists from Uzbekistan, Chechnya, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan are increasingly filling these posts.
These new instructors, fleeing Russian- and US-inspired crackdowns in the Central Asian states, and finding Europe barred after the London bombings, are bribing their way into Afghanistan and Pakistan, and while they initially settled in NWFP and Baluchistan, now they are setting up homes in PoK, where the climate is suitable.
Some months ago, the PoK governor, General (retired) Mohammed Aziz, had called upon former army officers to set up Islamic NGOs for human development, a euphemism to assist in the terrorist cause in J and K, and the Central Asian extremists, entering Pakistan in groups of twenty, ex-military and experts in handling weapons, were drafted as instructors, after the Pakistan army moved out of that role, and the ISI was directed to lie low.
To escape questioning at the borders, these extremists have been posing as Islamic pilgrims visiting holy sites in Pakistan, and some of them have traveled with their families, and one group arrested in South Eastern Afghanistan was freed by Taliban sympathisers, while Pakistan also initially took some of them in custody for extremism.
