From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (Narotham Reddy Gaddam)
Newsgroups: misc.news.southasia
Subject: Top Pakistani Intelligence Agents Nabbed
Date: 9 Apr 92 01:33:43 GMT


Source	  : News India
Date	  : April 10, 1992 issue
Countries : India and Pakistan


* Top Pakistani Intelligence Agents Nabbed:
* Pakistan fails to satisfy Britain:
* Antiques stolen from Salarjung Museum in Hyderabad:
* US may transfer high tech defense parts (includes F-16s and AWACS)
* India to ignore U.S Pressure:
* Thomas Pickering - India's next Ambassador:

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Pakistan

* Top Pakistani Intelligence Agents Nabbed:

Asian News International
New Delhi: A covert plan by the Pakistani intelligence to conduct a 
low intensity war against India was discovered by India on April 5.
	the cover was blown up by four Pakistani intelligence agents
who were arrested last week by Indian law enforcement agents along 
India's border.
	Major Sohail Ahmed, a senior Pakistani intelligence agent in
Baluchistan, Captain Aftab Hussain Shah of the Lahore General Service
branch along with Mushtaq Ahmed and Fateh Mohammed Khan gave full details
of the Pakistani plan "to trigger subversion" in Punjab, a senior Indian
intelligence officer disclosed on condition of anonymity.
	A large number of "sensitive and revealing documents,"
detailing the individuals to be contacted in India, the transactions 
to be undertaken and the modus-operandi for the various subversive acts  
along with maps of the area, were confiscated.
	While the officers agreed that normal intelligence gathering and 
surveillance is routine on Indo-Pak borders, "their arrest and plans
do highlight Pakistan's offensive intentions against India."  He added,
"Along with the ranks of personnel involved this is a clear demonstration
that Pakistan is engaged not only in intelligence operations but combat
operations of a nature undertaken only during wartime."
	While a detailed account of the disclosures made by the Pakistani
intelligence officers was not disclosed to the press, the government has
alerted the army along the border area.


* Pakistan fails to satisfy Britain:

London (PTI):  British Premier Johan Major has said that Britain was not
"satisfied" by Pakistani assurance that Islamabad was offering only
moral and political support to the Kashmiris in their opposition to India.
	"We have urged the Pakistani government to make efforts to prevent 
the Kashmiri militants from operating safely from Pakistani controlled
territory, Major said in reply to a letter Lord Avebury, who has asked
him to spell out the conservative government's policy on Kashmir.
	Major said, "it is clear that some elements within Pakistan
are providing material support.  We have stressed that this should cease.  
The continuing violence can only hurt the people living in Kashmir and 
make it harder to achieve a lasting solution.

India

* Antiques stolen from Salarjung Museum in Hyderabad

The theft of about 10,000 antique pieces from the world famous Salar
Jung Museum in the state capital, as alleged by BJP and TDP members,
generated heat in the Andhra Pradesh assembly with the Chief Minister
declaring that the state government has no role to play in it.
	"We referred the question to the museum management, who denied
the theft," he said, intervening in the debate on the issue during 
question hour.

* US may transfer high tech defense parts:

Washington:  The United States may transfer high-technology defense
equipment to India in return for the use of naval facilities for its
warships and at the Vishakapattanam port.
	According to highly-placed Pentagon officials, the defense deal
which is likely to be singed soon will include F-16 fighter jets, AWACS
aircraft, geo-stationary-geodetic satellites, 109 A5 self-propelled guns
(NATO leftovers), missile monitoring systems, and the 1980 version of
the Joint Surveillance Tracking and Radar Systems.  The plan also
provides for three senior U.S army officers to serve in the Indian
army under an exchange program.

* India to ignore U.S Pressure

In spite of considerable pressure from the Bush administration, India
will go ahead with the launching of "Agni", the wholly indigenous 
surface-to-surface missile, a top Indian defense analyst told News India,
April 5.
	Prime Minsiter P.V.Narsimha Rao has in fact asked Defense Minister
Sharad Pawar, who is in here (in Washington) this week, to convey this
message "honestly," this source disclosed on the conditions of anonymity.

* Thomas Pickering - India's next ambassador

Thomas Pickering, the current U.S Ambassador to the United Nations, 
was approved on April 1 by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to 
be the next U.S.Ambassador to India.
	Thomas Pickering, 60 holds the rank of career ambassador, the
highest title in U.S. Foreign Service.  He served as ambassador to Israel
from 1985-1988 and El-salvador between '83-85.

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