The Sunday Guardian

Hoping for a bloodbath, ISI plans to push ‘unarmed’ Pakistanis into valley

- ABHINANDAN MISHRA NEW DELHI

Pakistan’s Inter-services Intelligen­ce (ISI) is working on an elaborate plan to push Pakistani nationals into India in full public view from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (POK) and ensure a bloodbath to draw internatio­nal attention on the Kashmir issue. For this purpose, last week, a team of ISI officials and “preachers” visited Balochista­n and Pakistani Punjab to recruit people willing to enter India to “reclaim what is of Pakistan” and “defeat the occupying force” of India, which has “seized the holy land of Kashmir”. This was revealed to The Sunday Guardian by sources based in Pakistan and Balochista­n.

The intention behind this, as per those who are aware of the goings-on, is to internatio­nalise the Kashmir issue, which they think will happen, once the Indian Army, manning the border, does what it has to, to stop the infiltrati­on bid.

An authoritat­ive Pakistanba­sed source said: “The ISI’S plan is to force the Indian Army to shoot at the ‘unarmed pro-kashmir protesters’ once these people try to enter Jammu and Kashmir from Pakistan occupied Kashmir in full public view. These protesters, numbering in thousands will have the support of armed Pakistani army irregulars. They will try to cross the border, leading to action from the Indian Army. What happened in East Timor in the late 1990s might be re-enacted in Kashmir. These Pakistanis are expecting that they will be joined by the pro-pakistan group based in Kashmir once

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