ISI infiltrated into Dalits, OBCs -- Book

ISI infiltrated into Dalits, OBCs -- Book
UNITED NEWS OF INDIA

NEW DELHI, DEC 26: The Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan has infiltrated into the Dalits and other backward classes to carry out subversive activities against India, a new book on Kargil says.

Pak Proxy War: A Story Of ISI, Bin Laden and Kargil by Rajeev Sharma claims the ISI has been recruiting members of Dalit and the other backward classes since the mid-90s with the help of the underworld in Mumbai, Dubai and Nepal. The underworld funded the ISI's design and promoted a nexus among Muslims, Dalits and the backward classes at its biddings, it points out. It goes on to add that the ISI also targeted members of renowned Muslim organisations who did not buy their plan.

The book exposes Saudi millionaire Osama Bin Laden's role in the Kargil infiltration and brings under scrutiny the ISI plan which led to the conflict that claimed thousands of lives on both sides. The book, the third by the author, a journalist with the Newstime-Eenadu group of newspapers, focuses on the proxy war waged by theISI against India for the past two decades that culminated in the hilly terrain of Kargil.

The ills of terrorism in a civilised society forms the basis of the book which delves at length on the terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

``It is unfortunate that hitherto the western world with its somewhat limited vision has fuelled the fire and inadvertently promoted countries like Pakistan in its acts of terrorism,'' says former air chief N C Suri in his foreword to the book.