Isi Plan To Create Chaos In Kashmir

The Inter Services Intelligence agency of Pakistan has embarked upon an eleven-point plan of action through insurgents in Kashmir with a view to creating chaos and confusion and thereby bring the elected government in the state in disrepute, according to government agencies here.

The new set of instructions under the plan were finalised at a meeting held at Muzzarabad in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in the first week of November.

The meeting was attended by senior officers of the ISI and representatives of all major militant groups which have been operating in Jammu and Kashmir for the past several years.

The objective of the new offensive is to create an impression that elections were no solution to the Kashmir problem and that the elected government was ineffective and incapable of controlling the situation because of lack of public support.

According to reports available here with the government agencies, the militants have been asked to enact such dramatic incidents as may attract maximum media attention. The bomb explosions in Gupkar road near the Chief Minister's residence in Srinagar on January three and a similar explosion on December five near Sheikh Abdullah's tomb were part of the same strategy.

The militants have also been asked to resort to killing of political leaders and not allow MLAs to visit their constituencies.

In the last three months 54 attacks on political leaders have been made in which 24 persons were killed. Of these 16 belonged to the ruling National Conference.