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| Friday, 24 December 2004 |
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India names 32 rebel groups as terror outfits NEW DELHI, Thursday (AFP) India labelled 32 rebel and separatist groups as terror outfits that target Indian troops and officials from Himalayan hideouts in Kashmir to camps along the eastern border in Bangladesh. "The government has notified 32 prominent organisations and groups as terrorist organisations operating mainly in Jammu and Kashmir, northeast and Maoist-affected states," junior Home Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal told parliament. "Some of these groups have hideouts in the hinterland or higher reaches of hills, which they keep changing," Jaiswal said and named Kashmiri rebel groups Hizbul Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed as some of the "prominent" outfits. Some of the separatist organisations in northeastern Indian states were being funded by some foreign countries, Jaiswal said without elaborating. S. Reghupathy, another junior home minister, accused Bangladesh of sheltering rebel groups operating in some of India's seven northeastern states. "Indian insurgent groups have set up their training camps, hideouts or shelters in the territory of Bangladesh for subversive activities against India," the minister said in parliament's upper house. Both the United States and Pakistan have banned the Lashkar and Jaish-e-Mohammad pan Islamic groups operating in Kashmir, where the rebellion has claimed more than 48,000 lives by an official count since the start of the uprising in 1989. |
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