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According to Wilson John, the arrest of a Nepalese gun runner in Baramullah early in February 2007 unraveled clues that to the expanding network of terror siege in and around India, aided by Pakistan-based terrorist organizations like Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) and the ISI. Pasang Lama, a resident of district near Kathmandu, has been acting as a conduit between Maoists in Nepal and LeT in Jammu and Kashmir, orchestrated by the ISI which, since the peace process between India and Pakistan began in 2004, has been trying to cobble together a coalition of terror groups targeting India.

The ISI’s game plan in Nepal is not new. The difference is in the strategy, which fits in neatly with the overall plan to raise the level of terrorist threat to India without getting Pakistan into the dock. Lama is a tiny cog in this wheel. Lama, who rented out a room in G-49, Vikas Marg, Laxmi Nagar (a low-middle class, crowded locality in East Delhi), worked under the camouflage of a shawl and
carpet dealer.

He was a frequent visitor to Jammu and Kashmir and lived, for three months in a year, in Srinagar. His main contact person in Srinagar was a High Court lawyer, Abdul Latif Wani, while in Delhi, Lama, took orders from Kunjup Tsering who happened to be the gun runner for Maoists. Lama made his money by buying weapons from Kashmiri terrorist groups at cheaper rates and selling it at a higher price to Tsering. The transactions were facilitated through the accounts of Wani in Jammu & Kashmir Bank and Vijaya Bank. Last December, Lama paid Rs. 4,77,000 to buy AK-47 rifles, hand-grenades, rocket launchers and pistols which he delivered to Tsering in a fruit truck. Lama and Tsering have been in the of gun-running for the past four years. Lama’s interrogation revealed that he had more weapons on his agenda. He was an ISI agent networking with Maoists as well as terrorist groups like LeT establishing not only a conduit for weapons but also for training. He was liaisoning with LeT members to set up joint training camps for making IEDs.

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