![]() The following month, Muhammad Husain Suleiman, a Sri Lankan national, was arrested in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for his alleged links with Zakir Husain and his involvement with plots to attack the Israeli and U.S. Pakistan has a consulate in Kandy, located in the central province of Sri Lanka and the NIA is investigating if Pakistan's Kandy consulate is involved in this conspiracy. A seasoned spy and human trafficker with criminal records spanning as far away as Thailand, Singapore and Sri Lanka, Husain was supposed to set up bases in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu that would provide safe havens for ISI agents and militants (New Indian Express, May 8). Husain, a resident of Kandy, Sri Lanka, was also tasked with recruiting youths from southern India, especially in Tamil Nadu, for subversive activities in India (Hiru News, April 30). Consulate in Chennai and the Israeli Consulate in Bengaluru, among other vital Indian installations such as the Eastern Naval Command in Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) and the Southern Naval Command in Kochi (Kerala) at the behest of his ISI handlers in Colombo. He had conducted reconnaissance and photographed the U.S. Siraj Ali), Shaji and Amir Zubair Siddiqui (Asian Tribune, September 23, 2012).Įarly this year, Muhammad Zakir Husain, another Sri Lankan, was arrested on April 29. Based on his statements, Ansari's ISI handlers were identified as Haji (a.k.a. Nagapattinam, Mallipattinam, Karaikal and Thoothukudi. Videos taken from him by authorities also showed landing points on India's southeastern coast, e.g. A digital dossier on defense installations located in southern India, including the Defense Services Staff College (DSSC) at Wellington (Tamil Nadu), was seized from his possession. On September 18, 2012, Tamil Nadu's Crime Investigation Department-Q (CID-Q) branch, which is the part of state police responsible for LTTE monitoring, arrested Thameem Ansari minutes before he flew to Colombo to hand over sensitive information to his ISI contacts in the Pakistani High Commission. Siddiqui was serving officially as a counselor in the visa section at the High Commission (Times of India, May 4). The Tamil refugees are mostly sympathizers of the already decimated Tamil rebel group while the Sri Lankan Muslims who have been apprehended in the last few years from southern India have links with the Colombo-based High Commission of Pakistan and their ISI handler Amir Zubair Siddiqui. Selverajan's arrest came at a time when Indian security agencies are tracking the trails of two Sri Lankan groups, Tamil refugees and Muslims. Selverajan is reportedly wanted in Sri Lanka for harboring and providing logistical support to Tamil rebels (Times of India, September 12 Colombo Page, September 13). He is also believed to have surveyed the regional hub office of the National Security Guard and the Atomic Power Station at Kalpakkam (The Hindu, September 12). Those reported installations included the Indian Army's Officer Training Academy (OTA) and the Indian Coast Guard office in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. This gave him access to corporate groups and government agencies. India's premier terror investigating agency, the National Investigation Agency (NIA), had retrieved incriminating documents, Indian and Sri Lankan passports and bank account information with suspicious transactions from Selvarajan, who had already infiltrated many vital installations in Chennai using his event management organization, ICE Events. Tamil Tigers) sympathizer, was arrested in Chennai. ![]() On September 9, Arun Selvarajan, a suspected LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a.k.a. Of late, Pakistan's ISI seems to have expanded its network among Sri Lanka's Muslim minorities and disenfranchised Tamil community by exploiting the existing trust between the Sri Lankan and Pakistani governments. Pakistan has long used neighboring South Asian countries like Nepal, Bangladesh and the Maldives as bases from which to surreptitiously surveil or possibly attack India. The ISI uses legitimate government structures like the Pakistani High Commission and Consulate located in Colombo and Kandy, respectively, as staging grounds for anti-India activity. India's intelligence agencies have been investigating an espionage network reportedly run by Pakistan's external intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), from Sri Lankan soil. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Jamestown Foundation, Pakistan's Anti-India Spy Network Eyes Vital Defense Infrastructure from Sri Lanka, 10 October 2014, Terrorism Monitor Volume: 12 Issue: 19, available at:
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