User:Vibhijain/Inter-Services Intelligence activities in Bangladesh

Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (abbreviated as ISI) has been involved in Bangladesh, with most of its activities concentrating to perform various operations in India. Former ISI chief Asad Durrani, during a hearing by the Supreme Court of Pakistan, admitted that the ISI funded Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) during the 1991 Bangladeshi general election. The ISI has been allegedly active in Bangladesh whenever the BNP has ruled the country. It has been also alleged of using Bangladesh to logistically and financially support insurgent groups of Northeast India. Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Zabiuddin Ansari revealed that Yasin Bhatkal, chief of Indian Mujahideen, is going undercover in Bangladesh with ISI's help. He also said that Pakistani diplomatic staff of Bangladesh provided him fake documents like passport. Bangladeshi Home Minister Saharah Khatun said,"Sometimes you find that Pakistan ISI and terrorists operating in this country. Law enforcement agencies have arrested Pak ISI terrorists. It is true that they are there in the country. All the SAARC countries should work together to fight against this menace."

According to Peter Tomsen, the Inter-Services Intelligence in conjunction with Jamaat-e-Islami formed militias such as Al-Badr ("the moon") and the Al-Shams ("the sun") to conduct operations against the nationalist movement during the Bangladesh Liberation War.

Of recent concern to the Indian government has been the ISI use of Bangladesh as a staging ground to train designated terrorist groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and insurgents. A list of 170 of these facility's were given to the Bangladeshi government but they have failed to act upon them. It is alleged by ten Naga rebels who surrendered to the Indian security forces in 1999 that they were being armed by the ISI and were to receive their weapons at Cox's Bazar.