Chief Adviser’s Press Wing has said that the report published in an Indian newspaper saying that operatives of Pakistan’s ISI are working to reopen a ULFA camp near the Assam border in Bangladesh, is false and baseless, reports UNB.
“The Tribune newspaper in New Delhi has run a front-page story with the headline ‘ISI, Bangladesh operatives teaming up to revive ULFA camps near Assam border’. As with other stories in this genre that has exploded since Bangladeshis overthrew the corrupt and brutal regime of Sheikh Hasina, no evidence is provided and no named sources endorse its plotline,” it said.
In fact, the only source who is quoted, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, says he does not believe the leader of the ULFA, Paresh Baruah, has any desire to resume his previous militant activities, said the Press Wing on its verified Facebook page.
The Tribune story claims ‘Intelligence agencies suspect that Baruah may soon be released’, when in fact he is already at large and believed to be living in China.
The article also claims that the newspaper has intercepted communications in Bangladesh ‘in Arabic, Urdu and Bengali’, it added.
“This story is pure fiction and will remain ‘exclusive’ to the Tribune because it exists only in the imaginations of its staff,” it added.
Bd-Pratidin English/ AM
