Indian daily claims
BSS, New Delhi
The Daily Pioneer of India has reported that Bangladesh's soil is being used by at least 80 militant training camps run by the so-called "rabidly anti-India Islamic militant organisations."
The daily reported on its front page quoting unidentified Indian central as well as West Bengal intelligence agencies as having submitted a report on the matter to "top officials".
Under the headline, "Bangladesh terror camps worry India, all not quiet on eastern front" the report said, without identifying, that the intelligence officials "have expressed serious concern on the issue, and with fresh evidence coming to light, the (Indian) External Affairs Ministry is expected to take up the matter with Dhaka."
Quoting the unidentified intelligence report the Pioneer wrote, "these training camps are set up by ULFA, KLO, and Chakma Liberation Front with the active support and patronage of Bangladesh Government."
It said, that the Indian government raised the issue with Bangladesh authorities who denied such Indian claims and that "there seems to be a deadlock on the issue."
Quoting unidentified sources, the daily reports that while ULFA and KLO training camps have been organised by the BDR sector headquarters, training camps of Chakma National Liberation Front have been organised partly by 103 and 105 Infantry Brigade of the Bangladesh Army at Khagrachhari and Rangamati.
The Pioneer also sought to give a break up of the camps with their locations.
The same report also made the usual allegation that the Indian home ministry has been regularly receiving reports of "increased ISI activity in Bangladesh and tacit support extended to them by the authorities."
A Bangladesh diplomat described the report as "baseless, a figment of
imagination" and "nothing but rabidly anti-Bangladesh propaganda with
the single objective of maligning Bangladesh that India does from time to time
using Indian as well as foreign media."