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Pak Support To Kashmir Militants Depicted In A Documentary
This is from misc.news.southasia. Source: News India-Times, March 6, 1995
Pak Support To Kashmir Militants Depicted In A Documentary
By SRINIVAS R. RANGA
NEW YORK: A television documentary last week depicted details of
Pakistan's support to Kashmir militants, terrorist acts in India
and in many parts of the world, even as Islamabad is preparing for
Benazir Bhutto's April visit to the United States.
The details, by far the most damaging, will definitely raise quite
a few eyebrows in the Clinton administration, prior to the Pakistan
prime minister's trip.
The Public Broadcasting System telecast the 30-minute documentary
titled "Terror Incorporated" March 4. Interviews with former
secretary of state James Baker, Republican research committee on
terrorism chairman Bill McCollum (R-Florida), staff director of
House of Representatives task force on terrorism and unconventional
warfare Yossef Bodansky, "prime minister" of Pakistan-occupied
Kashmir Sardar Abdul Qayyum were carried in the documentary.
The film proved beyond doubt that terrorism and subversion have
become vital parts of Pakistan's regional strategy.
Baker said the United States cautioned Pakistan against exporting
terrorism after then Central Intelligence director Robert Gates'
report indicted Islamabad for sponsoring international terrorism.
"The situation improved in 1992, but after Bhutto rode back to
power Pakistan has reverted to its earlier policies," Baker complained.
Bodansky said there are three levels of terrorist training camps in
Pakistan which cause "varying degrees of trouble around the world."
He said the camps around Muzzafarabad, capital of PoK, train
terrorists in hit-and-run tactics. In another kind of camps,
fundamentalists, under the direct control of Pakistan's secret
service, the Inter-Services Intelligence, are trained to create
havoc in India. According to Bodansky the third kind of camps "are
more sensitive" and are meant to train terrorists for worldwide operations.
McCollum said the camps in Pakistan "are growing rather than
lessening and they are fed with some of the so-called former Afghan
mujahideen."
He feared "a great deal of mischief" from these terrorist camps
which train not only Pakistanis, but also an assorted bunch of
Islamic fundamentalists from the Muslim world.
McCollum expressed concern at the increase in the smuggling of
quality weapons from Pakistan into Kashmir. He credited Pakistan's
emboldened stand of ignoring Washington's warnings against
supporting terrorism to Islamabad's reinforced friendship with
Beijing and Tehran.
