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| Police to ‘ban’ movement of truckers with alleged ISI links | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
RAJOURI, May 30: As the Pak ISI was alleged to have hooked up some truck drivers engaged in the cross-LoC trade in Poonch for smuggling of arms and hawala money, services of at least 26 of them were likely to be discontinued.
Quoting intelligence inputs, police sources said the ISI had eveloped links with at least 26 truck drivers carrying goods on the cross-LoC Poonch-Rawalkote route.
These drivers were in the trade for the past one year, or so, the sources added.
Allowing them to continue transportation of cross-LoC trade items would not be in the interest of the nation, sources said. The 26 drivers, suspected to have developed ISI links, were also likely to be put to sustained questioning, the sources added.
The intelligence agencies were also said to have made a communication to the union defence ministry in this regard. Sources said it was suspected that the ISI men were always present in the reception area on the PoK side of the Line of Control (LoC).
They were sure to have developed good relations with the cross-LOC truckers, the sources added.
Sources said if these drivers were not removed and replaced with new drivers, the ISI men could extract vital information from them. The defence ministry had also issued directions to security agencies in J&K to keep the activities of these drivers under surveillance and also show them a way out, the sources added.
Acting on the defence ministry directive, security agencies had shortlisted 26 cross-LoC drivers and decided to disengage their services at the earliest.
Sources identified them as Farooq Ahmed, Gurchuran Singh, Mohammad Abdullah, Malkit Singh, Riaz Ahmed, Mohammad Shabir, Mohammad Bashir, Manzoor Ahmed, Shabir Mohammad, Aftab Hussain, Mashooq Ahmed, Rashid Iqbal, Abdul Subhan, Sucha Singh, Mohd Rustum, Raj Kumar, Mohammad Yaqoob, Mohammad Qadir , Mohammad Shakeel, Mohammad Farooq, Mohammad Hanief, Maroof Hussain, Ashraf Hussain, Maqsood Ahmed, Abdul Majeed and Abdul Rashid.
Sources said Nodal Security Officer of Cross-LoC trade had also written to Custodian Cross-LoC Trade, Poonch, in this regard vide his letter no DER/trade/10/2321-24 dated May 14.
A senior police officer, however, said there were several truck drivers whose police verification was yet to be done. Till their verification was not completed, they would not be allowed to ply their trucks on the cross-LoC route, he added.
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