User:SheriffIsInTown/India and state-sponsored terrorism

India has been supporting terrorism in Bangladesh and Pakistan, and has been accused by Sri Lanka  of supporting terrorism and carrying out "economic sabotage".

Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, insurgent groups such as the Shanti Bahini and Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti received backing from India. The Bahini's headquarters were at Tripura along with 6 to 10 camps in Mizoram. The fighting between the rebels and Bangladesh's army resulted in thousands of civilian casualties.

Sri Lanka
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi decided to support the Tamil insurgents in 1983, and within one year the Indian intelligence agency RAW created thirty training camps in Tamil Nadu, which provided sanctuary, financial support, training and arms to more than 20,000 terrorists. The initial training was usually provided at certain Indian military camps located in Uttar Pradesh, while special training was given at special RAW centers in New Delhi, Bombay, and Vishakhapatnam. The recruits deemed capable for the most sensitive training were trained at India’s "most prestigious military academy" near Dehra Dun. Although the Indian Government banned the group in 1987 during the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord, the LTTE continued to operate freely and continued to have links with RAW until the defeat of the LTTE in 2009. Lieutenant general Depinder Singh, the Overall commander of the IPKF in Sri Lanka from July 1987 to March 1990 states that even when the IPKF was engaged in fighting the LTTE, RAW was engaged in aiding and training the terrorists. According to journalists TELO was selected for training in India before LTTE, but this led to a competition erupting between the two factions; which created a further rift between the two rebel organizations. But even after this rift nearly every functioning terrorist cadre was given training facilities by the Indian government.

The Sri Lankan President's secretary Lalith Weeratunga stated that India's intelligence agency RAW had a big hand in planning and executing terrorist strikes in Sri Lanka. He went on to state that India aided and abetted terrorism, repeatedly violated Sri Lankan sovereignty and was responsible for sending LTTE terrorists across the sea to carry out some of the most devastating terrorist attacks on Sri Lankan soil.

From August 1983 to May 1987, India, through its intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), provided arms, training and monetary support to six Sri Lankan Tamil insurgent groups including the LTTE. During that period, 32 terror training camps were set up in India to train these 495 LTTE insurgents, including 90 women who were trained in 10 batches. The first batch of Tigers were trained in Establishment 22 based in Chakrata, Uttarakhand. The second batch, including LTTE intelligence chief Pottu Amman, trained in Himachal Pradesh. Prabakaran visited the first and the second batch of Tamil Tigers to see them training. Eight other batches of LTTE were trained in Tamil Nadu. Thenmozhi Rajaratnam alias Dhanu, who carried out the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi and Sivarasan—the key conspirator were among the militants trained by RAW, in Nainital, India.

In April 1984, the LTTE formally joined a common militant front, the Eelam National Liberation Front (ENLF), a union between LTTE, the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO), the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS), the People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) and the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF). These Indian trained groups later carried out some of the most devastating terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka.

Pakistan
India's Research and Analysis Wing supported the separatist/nationalist terrorist organization called Al Zulfiqar since 1977 and continued with their operations inside Pakistan even after Al Zulfiqar was disbanded in 1989. This terrorist group conducted hijacking in March 1981 of a Pakistan International Airlines plane from Karachi to Kabul.

In December 1994, Pakistan ordered the closure of the Indian consulate in Karachi over "sponsoring terrorism" and violence in the city. According to Najmuddin Shaikh, the consulate had been coordinating "networks of agents trained for the purposes of conducting terrorism and other anti-state activity" and Pakistan had arrested 14 people to this effect who were recruited by India's intelligence. The move came amidst crackdowns against armed elements of the MQM, whom Pakistan accused of receiving Indian support. In 2015, a BBC report quoted Pakistani officials stating that Indian intelligence had "trained hundreds of MQM militants in explosives, weapons and sabotage" over the past decade, within camps located in India.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel suggested in 2011 that "India had been using Afghanistan as a second front against Pakistan. India has over the years financed problems for Pakistan from Afghanistan."

Insurgency in Balochistan
RAW has an extensive network of agents inside Pakistan and supported dissident elements in that country. In 2016, Pakistan arrested Kulbhushan Yadav, a RAW agent who confessed that he has been involved in terrorist activities in Balochistan and Karachi. India has been supporting insurgency in Balochistan, Pakistani Government and ISI have accused Indian consulates in Kandahar and Jalalabad, Afghanistan, for providing arms, training and financial aid to the BLA in an attempt to destabilize Pakistan.

Pakistan has repeatedly accused India of supporting Baloch rebels, and Wright-Neville writes that outside Pakistan, some Western observers also believe that India secretly funds the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA). In August 2013 US Special Representative James Dobbins said Pakistan's fears over India's role in Afghanistan were “not groundless".

A diplomatic cable sent Dec. 31, 2009, from the U.S. consulate in Karachi and obtained by WikiLeaks said it was "plausible" that Indian intelligence was helping the Baluch insurgents. An earlier 2008 cable, discussing the Mumbai attacks reported fears by British officials that "intense domestic pressure would force Delhi to respond, at the minimum, by ramping up covert support to nationalist militants fighting the Pakistani army in Baluchistan." However, Richard Holbrooke who was United States Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2009 stated that Pakistan didn't provide any credible evidence to back their accusations against India.

In 2015, Chinese authorities have notified and cautioned Pakistani authorities of a possible terror attack aimed at making the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor project a failure. According to China, Baluch insurgents with ties to India's Research and Analysis Wing plan on sabotaging some key projects particularly on the eastern alignment; Gwadar to Quetta, where work has already started. “The Chinese have sounded a note of 'caution' soon after reports suggested foreign agencies’ support to militants,” said the official, who attended an important meeting discussing key issues relating to Gwadar Port and the economic corridor at the Ministry of Defence. He further said, “The Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), with other hostile agencies, is at the frontline to sabotage this project, that is what Chinese intelligence agencies shared with us.”

In October 2015, the adviser to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz handed over three dossiers to the United Nations, allegedly containing proof of Indian involvement in terrorist activities abroad. Aziz said that Pakistan's permanent representative to UN, Dr Maliha Lodhi had shared three dossiers containing evidences pertaining to Indian backed terrorism in Balochistan, FATA and Karachi with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in a meeting. The announcement of submission of dossiers gained media hype. But Aziz later in November 2015 clarified that the dossiers did not contain "material evidence" but instead contained the "pattern and narrative" of Indian involvement.

India
In 2011, the Guardian published an article which mentioned that India is a safe haven for many Hindutva extremists and that the Indian Government has turned a blind eye to many Saffron terror groups that operate within its territory. It urged the Indian Government to crack down on various terror groups that operate with impunity.

The Indian-based Hindutva terror group Abhinav Bharat have links with the Indian Army and with RAW. Some of its members such as Swami Aseemanand, Lt Col Shrikant Purohit, Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, Lokesh Sharma, Kamal Chauhan, Sunil Joshi and Rajendra Choudhary carried out the Malegaon terrorist bombings, the 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings, the Malegaon blasts, Mecca Masjid bombing and the Ajmer Sharif Dargah blast. During investigations, it was revealed that serving and retired Indian Army officers associated with Abhinav Bharat have motivated the youth to carry out terrorist attacks against Indian Muslims and have advocated cross-border terrorism against Pakistan.

In 2000, US Congressman, Edolphus Towns called on Congress to declare India, a "terrorist state", for perpetrating and financing state terrorism against its neighbors as well as internal minorities including Sikhs of Indian Punjab and Kashmiris. He described that there were mass cremation policies where hundreds of Sikhs were abducted by police, tortured, murdered and their bodies disposed off afterwards.

United Arab Emirates
A cable dating back to 2009 showed that UAE officials believed India was secretly supporting Tehreek-e-Taliban insurgents in northwest Pakistan.