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JKLF chief says ISI trained Kashmiri fighters in AJK
 Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) gave military training to Kashmiri rebels battling security forces in Indian-held Kashmir, a separatist leader has said. While India has long accused Pakistan of training and arming the rebels, a charge Islamabad denies, this is the first confirmation by a separatist leader in the state. The revelation comes in a new book by Amanullah Khan, chief of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). "We had a gentleman's agreement, an oral sort of agreement. I was given the idea that the ISI was all for the independence of Kashmir," Khan told Reuters on Friday, referring to the beginning of ISI help for his group.He said he was given the impression that Pakistan's then military ruler, General Ziaul Haq, also supported the notion of independence for Kashmir. Khan said the JKLF began bringing young men into Azad Kashmir from the Indian side in 1988, where they received training from the ISI. "The agreement was that we will bring boys from across and indoctrinate our ideology by ourselves. ISI trains them and they are sent back," he said. Posted by: Fred 2005-06-18 |
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