Guwahati, Nov 29: The Inter Services Intelligence of Pakistan is backing Northeast-based militant groups having camps in Bangladesh with the help of al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorist organisation, the BSF claimed here. ''The Northeast-based terrorist outfits, including the Ulfa, NDFB and other groups, are aided by the ISI in their camps in Bangladesh through the al-Qaeda and Taliban and the BSF is on alert," M N Sajjan, the Additional Deputy Inspector-General of BSF, said on the occasion of the para-military force's 38th Raising Day here.
Referring to increasing acts of violence in Assam, he said that additional three battallions of BSF were being brought in and so far the para-military force has been able to apprehend 10 miscreants in anti-Bihari violence in the state.
He admitted that the illegal influx along the Bangladesh-Assam border was going on and attributed it to similarities between the two peoples and the identical language spoken by them.
But, in the Meghalaya sector even local people opposed infiltration because of ethnic differences.
The BSF's three companies stationed in the troubled Tinsukia district in upper Assam have been able to quell many a trouble and the government has asked for more companies, he said.
The BSF official said at present every four km of the Indo-Bangla border was being manned, but very soon with the arrival of extra forces the gap would be reduced to three km.
Denying that BSF personnel were involved in infiltration from Bangladesh and trafficking, Sajjan said "certain politicians" were indulging themselves in maligning the image of the force.
"In fact these politicians are only linked with smugglers and everytime are out to tarnish the image of the BSF," he said without naming the politicians.
In the last one year, 414 Bangladeshi entrants were intercepted while they trespassed into Indian territory from whom several arms as well as ammunition were recovered, he said. Bureau Report