An illegal weapons market is flourishing along the Pak-Afghan border
New Delhi: Security and intelligence agencies in India are concerned over the illegal arms market along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border as the bulk of it is US-made, dropped by drones on the Indian side in Jammu & Kashmir and Punjab, a special report by Mukesh Ranjan in The Tribune, Chandigarh, says.
According to government sources, when US forces left Afghanistan, they left behind a major chunk of their arms and ammunition.
“It is these weapons that are being sold in the illegal arms market that has come up in the north-west part of Pakistan along its borders with Afghanistan,” according to reliable sources.
The sources said the ISI was buying weapons from the black market and giving them to Khalistani and Islamic terrorists in Pakistan. In turn, such elements (handlers) were providing weapons and ammunition to their operatives in India.
Security agencies have found that in the majority of cases of drones dropping arms in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir, the weapons were made in the United States.
“It is these weapons that are being sold in the illegal arms market that has come up in the north-west part of Pakistan along its borders with Afghanistan,” according to reliable sources.
Incidentally, apart from Islamic terrorist organisations active in Pakistan and exporting terrorism to India, several Khalistani terrorists like Wadhwa Singh Babbar, Harvinder Singh Rinda, Ranjit Singh Neeta and Lakhbir Singh Rode were roaming freely in Pakistan and the ISI was using them to fan trouble in India, particularly in Punjab, the sources said.
A steady supply of drugs by Khalistani terrorists in Pakistan was another area of concern, the sources said, adding that such anti-India activities are also prevalent in the US, Canada and the UK.
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