Arrested ISI men in India's most wanted list

GUWAHATI, August 9: The names of two of the four Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) men nabbed by the city police figure in the list of the most wanted enemies of the nation prepared by the Union government, police sources here said. They said the two -Qari Salim Ahmed of Uttar Pradesh and Maulana Hafiz Md Akram Mallik- were wanted in connection with several bomb blasts in different parts of the country. The other two ISI officers nabbed by the city police are Md Fasih Ullah Hussaini and Md Javed Wakhar, both of Pakistan. Giving details of the events leading to the arrest of the ISI men, police sources said late last month they received information that some ISI men had entered the state and the city police was on the lookout for them. The efforts of the police to nab them yielded results as three of them were nabbed when they tried to exchange US Dollars at the ANZ Grindlays Bank in the city. Sources said the day when the ISI men tried to do this, the superintendent of police was tipped off. He sent a team headed by the deputy superintendent of police of Panbazar division, Debendra Deka, to the Dighalipukhuripar area where they nabbed three of the ISI men. The fourth was picked up from a hotel in the city. At first, the ISI men claimed that they were from Delhi but their attempt to mislead the police was foiled when they failed to give proper replies to questions on different localities of Delhi. Later, they opened up and their revelations led to the arrests of 27 Islamic militants from different parts of the state. Of the arrested, 16 had received training in Pakistan, police sources said. The ISI men were well-connected with international organisations and immediately after they were picked up, some organisations moved the UN Human Rights Council alleging that the Indian police was trying to kill two Pakistani nationals. Among other things, the police recovered one sophisticated wrist watch from the possession of the ISI personnel. The watch contained addresses and telephone numbers of 71 different persons and organisations. The addresses were in codes and the Assam police had to take the help of experts from outside to decode the same. The police also recovered an electronic diary, which contained addresses of more than 180 persons and organisations of different countries including Arabian countries, the United States, Pakistan as well as of other parts of the country like Mumbai. This too proved that the ISI men were well-connected. The electronic diary too was sophisticated and the password of the decoder keeps changing on its own. Police sources said ISI was primarily responsible for the supply of explosives to the militants in the state. The police suspects that the RDX recovered from Babul Ingti, an ULFA militant killed recently in the city by the police, was provided by ISI.