Behind the scene, ISI and RAW are secret friends.

[war&peace]

May be in some parallel universe..

 

[Irfan Baloch]

Me too

I dont want to brag but back in college days I also did some soft drugs to kill the boredom
right now I am not feeling well and reading this article might hurt my head so I will settle for some something to smoke or eat in Pakoras

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

Foreign-funded NGOs stalling development: IB report

TNN | Updated: Jun 12, 2014, 05:49 IST

NEW DELHI: An Intelligence Bureau report has accused "foreign-funded" NGOs such as Greenpeace, Cordaid, Amnesty and ActionAid of "serving as tools for foreign policy interests of western governments" by sponsoring agitations against nuclear and coal-fired power plants across the country.

The NGOs, said to be working through a network of local organizations such as PUCL and Narmada Bachao Andolan, have negatively impacted GDP growth by 2-3%, claims the IB report sent to the PMO and other government agencies.

Environmental activists joined Greenpeace in rubbishing the IB report. Greenpeace said it was a conscious attempt by the country's premier intelligence agency to crush and stifle opposing voices in civil society. The organization also wrote to the home minister, requesting him to share a copy of the report "to know and understand impacts of this labeling".

"It is disturbing to know that information of the IB report has been leaked to a media house and not been shared with the party concerned," said executive director of the Greenpeace India, Samit Aich, in his letter to the home minister.

As far as the source of funding is concerned, the NGO said, "Greenpeace India is funded by individual supporters in India. Greenpeace is an independent campaigning organization that does not accept any donation from corporate or government entities."

Environmentalist Ramesh Agrawal, who recently won the Goldman Environmental Prize for resisting destruction of forests by private mining companies in Chhatisgarh, said the report was an attempt to muzzle dissent. "I don't believe the IB report. Environmentalists working on the ground have always been branded as anti-development. At a time when global warming is threatening us and air pollution is the most serious public health problem, why is the government suppressing voices of dissent?" he asked.

The IB report — addressed to PMO, heads of joint intelligence committee and R&AW, national security council secretariat (NSCS), coal and power secretaries, home minister, finance minister and Cabinet secretary, and signed by IB joint director Safi A Rizvi — alleges that the "areas of action" of the foreign-funded NGOs include anti-nuclear, anti-coal and anti-Genetically Modified Organisms protests. Apart from stalling mega industrial projects including those floated by POSCO and Vedanta, these NGOs have also been working to the detriment of mining, dam and oil drilling projects in north-eastern India, it adds.

According to the report dated June 3, these foreign-funded NGOs are allegedly the influence behind "Praful Bidwais and Medha Patkars". The document, the details of which were accessed by TOI, accuses Greenpeace of having expanded its activities to oppose coal-fired power plants and coal mining and receiving Rs 45 crore from abroad in the last seven years.

"It is using foreign funds to create protest movements under 'Coal Network' umbrella at prominent coal block and coal-fired power plant locations in India," alleged the IB report.

Since 2013, Greenpeace has undertaken protests in five project-affected villages of Mahaan (in Madhya Pradesh) coal block allocated to Essar and Hindalco under the banner of Mahaan Sangarsh Samiti. Its activists have been targeting coal mining companies specifically Coal India Limited, Hindalco, Aditya Birla group and Essar as they "stand in their way", the report alleged.

"To encourage Indianness of its anti-coal approach, Greenpeace has financed a private research institute to study health, pollution and other aspects at Mahaan and plans to use the Mahaan case as a precursor for a ban on all coal blocks," it said.

The report has also raised questions over nearly $40,000 deposited in two bank accounts of S P Udayakumar, convenor of People's Movement against Nuclear Energy that has been at the forefront of the agitation against the Kudankulam nuclear project. The money was supposedly transferred by Ohio University for sending in resources and articles in the field of Kudankulam.

The report further alleges that six NGOs are at the forefront of anti-GM Food activism in India, with Germany being the main source of funds.

According to the report, future plans of the foreign-funded NGOs to take down fresh economic development projects include protests against palm oil imports, migration of workers to cities for construction work, campaign against disposal of e-waste generated by IT and Par Tapi-Narmada river interlinking in Gujarat and Maharashtra.

The future plans also include debunking the Gujarat model of development, special investment region in Gujarat and Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor, says the IB report.

Reacting to such allegations, senior campaigner of Greenpeace India Abhishek Pratap said, "Greenpeace India is an independent organization, which campaigns for development which is sustainable and growth that is inclusive - that is our understanding of 'sab ka saath sab ka vikas". How can this be a threat to national economic security"?

Pratap said, "We are clearly a threat to powerful corporate interests that seek to bulldoze clearances at the cost of millions of people and the environment".

He said, "We have a legitimate right to express our views in what is after all the world's largest democracy. We believe that this report is designed to muzzle and silence civil society who raise their voices against injustices to people and the environment by asking uncomfortable questions about the current model of growth."

Greenpeace also rubbished the allegation that it had funded Aam Admi Party (AAP) candidate Pankaj Singh, who contested from the Sidhi Lok Sabha seat in Madhya Pradesh. Said Greenpeace's Divya Raghunandan, "Pankaj was working with us before he joined AAP. He was a good activist working on the ground and in touch with the community. We lost a good hand to AAP. Greenpeace never supported his political activities."

Pankaj Singh told TOI: "It was my own decision to join AAP but that was only after I quit Greenpeace. I was working for Greenpeace as a consultant. I am a Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) graduate on community organization and development practices. So obviously my work has been focused on community forest rights."

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...evelopment-IB-report/articleshow/36411169.cms

 

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Foreign-funded NGOs stalling development: IB report

TNN | Updated: Jun 12, 2014, 05:49 IST

NEW DELHI: An Intelligence Bureau report has accused "foreign-funded" NGOs such as Greenpeace, Cordaid, Amnesty and ActionAid of "serving as tools for foreign policy interests of western governments" by sponsoring agitations against nuclear and coal-fired power plants across the country.

The NGOs, said to be working through a network of local organizations such as PUCL and Narmada Bachao Andolan, have negatively impacted GDP growth by 2-3%, claims the IB report sent to the PMO and other government agencies.

Environmental activists joined Greenpeace in rubbishing the IB report. Greenpeace said it was a conscious attempt by the country's premier intelligence agency to crush and stifle opposing voices in civil society. The organization also wrote to the home minister, requesting him to share a copy of the report "to know and understand impacts of this labeling".

"It is disturbing to know that information of the IB report has been leaked to a media house and not been shared with the party concerned," said executive director of the Greenpeace India, Samit Aich, in his letter to the home minister.

As far as the source of funding is concerned, the NGO said, "Greenpeace India is funded by individual supporters in India. Greenpeace is an independent campaigning organization that does not accept any donation from corporate or government entities."

Environmentalist Ramesh Agrawal, who recently won the Goldman Environmental Prize for resisting destruction of forests by private mining companies in Chhatisgarh, said the report was an attempt to muzzle dissent. "I don't believe the IB report. Environmentalists working on the ground have always been branded as anti-development. At a time when global warming is threatening us and air pollution is the most serious public health problem, why is the government suppressing voices of dissent?" he asked.

The IB report — addressed to PMO, heads of joint intelligence committee and R&AW, national security council secretariat (NSCS), coal and power secretaries, home minister, finance minister and Cabinet secretary, and signed by IB joint director Safi A Rizvi — alleges that the "areas of action" of the foreign-funded NGOs include anti-nuclear, anti-coal and anti-Genetically Modified Organisms protests. Apart from stalling mega industrial projects including those floated by POSCO and Vedanta, these NGOs have also been working to the detriment of mining, dam and oil drilling projects in north-eastern India, it adds.

According to the report dated June 3, these foreign-funded NGOs are allegedly the influence behind "Praful Bidwais and Medha Patkars". The document, the details of which were accessed by TOI, accuses Greenpeace of having expanded its activities to oppose coal-fired power plants and coal mining and receiving Rs 45 crore from abroad in the last seven years.

"It is using foreign funds to create protest movements under 'Coal Network' umbrella at prominent coal block and coal-fired power plant locations in India," alleged the IB report.

Since 2013, Greenpeace has undertaken protests in five project-affected villages of Mahaan (in Madhya Pradesh) coal block allocated to Essar and Hindalco under the banner of Mahaan Sangarsh Samiti. Its activists have been targeting coal mining companies specifically Coal India Limited, Hindalco, Aditya Birla group and Essar as they "stand in their way", the report alleged.

"To encourage Indianness of its anti-coal approach, Greenpeace has financed a private research institute to study health, pollution and other aspects at Mahaan and plans to use the Mahaan case as a precursor for a ban on all coal blocks," it said.

The report has also raised questions over nearly $40,000 deposited in two bank accounts of S P Udayakumar, convenor of People's Movement against Nuclear Energy that has been at the forefront of the agitation against the Kudankulam nuclear project. The money was supposedly transferred by Ohio University for sending in resources and articles in the field of Kudankulam.

The report further alleges that six NGOs are at the forefront of anti-GM Food activism in India, with Germany being the main source of funds.

According to the report, future plans of the foreign-funded NGOs to take down fresh economic development projects include protests against palm oil imports, migration of workers to cities for construction work, campaign against disposal of e-waste generated by IT and Par Tapi-Narmada river interlinking in Gujarat and Maharashtra.

The future plans also include debunking the Gujarat model of development, special investment region in Gujarat and Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor, says the IB report.

Reacting to such allegations, senior campaigner of Greenpeace India Abhishek Pratap said, "Greenpeace India is an independent organization, which campaigns for development which is sustainable and growth that is inclusive - that is our understanding of 'sab ka saath sab ka vikas". How can this be a threat to national economic security"?

Pratap said, "We are clearly a threat to powerful corporate interests that seek to bulldoze clearances at the cost of millions of people and the environment".

He said, "We have a legitimate right to express our views in what is after all the world's largest democracy. We believe that this report is designed to muzzle and silence civil society who raise their voices against injustices to people and the environment by asking uncomfortable questions about the current model of growth."

Greenpeace also rubbished the allegation that it had funded Aam Admi Party (AAP) candidate Pankaj Singh, who contested from the Sidhi Lok Sabha seat in Madhya Pradesh. Said Greenpeace's Divya Raghunandan, "Pankaj was working with us before he joined AAP. He was a good activist working on the ground and in touch with the community. We lost a good hand to AAP. Greenpeace never supported his political activities."

Pankaj Singh told TOI: "It was my own decision to join AAP but that was only after I quit Greenpeace. I was working for Greenpeace as a consultant. I am a Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) graduate on community organization and development practices. So obviously my work has been focused on community forest rights."

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...evelopment-IB-report/articleshow/36411169.cms

Since you got so much to share and expose, let me give you free internet

 

[Bharat Muslim]

Since you got so much to share and expose, let me give you free internet

Do you want more proof?

CIA, ISI encouraged Sikh terrorism: Ex-R&AW official

July 26, 2007 13:26 IST

The Richard Nixon administration in the US had initiated a "covert action plan" in collusion with General Yahya Khan's government in Pakistan in 1971 to encourage a separatist movement in Punjab, a former top officer of the Research and Analysis Wing has said.

"This plan envisaged the encouragement of a separatist movement among the Sikhs for an independent state to be called Khalistan. In 1971, one saw the beginning of a joint covert operation by the US intelligence community and Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence to create difficulties for India in Punjab," B Raman, who retired as additional secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat, says in his forthcoming book.

In the book The Kaoboys of R&AW -- Down the Memory Lane that is yet to be published, he said the US interest in Punjab militancy "continued for a little more than a decade and tapered off after the assassination of Indira Gandhi" by two Sikh security guards on October 31, 1984.

Elaborating, Raman said Jagjit Singh Chauhan, a Sikh leader from Punjab, went to the UK and took over the leadership of the defunct Sikh Home Rule movement and renamed it after Khalistan.

The then Pakistani military ruler Yahya Khan invited Chauhan to Pakistan, "lionised" him as a leader of Sikhs and handed over some Sikh holy relics kept in Pakistan, which Chauhan took to the UK to win a following in the Sikh diaspora.

Chauhan also went to New York, met officials of the United Nations and some American journalists and alleged human rights violations of Sikhs in India.

"These meetings were discreetly organised by officials of the US National Security Council Secretariat then headed by (Henry) Kissinger," the former R&AW officer says.

"With American and Pakistani encouragement, the activities of Chauhan continued till 1977. After the defeat of Indira Gandhi in the elections in 1977 and the coming to power of a government headed by Morarji Desai, Chauhan abruptly called off his so-called Khalistan movement and returned to India," writes Raman.

Observing that foreign intelligence agencies were not helpful in providing information on Sikh extremist activities in their respective countries, he says the political leadership of western countries like the UK, the US and Canada, which has sizeable Sikh population, did not want to antagonise them by cooperating with the Indian government against the Khalistanis.

Giving an example of "non-cooperation", he refers to the authorities in the then West Germany.

He says Talwinder Singh Parmar of Babbar Khalsa, a sacked sawmill worker in Vancouver in Canada who was wanted in several cases in India like the Nirankari massacre and had been making "threatening" statements against Indira Gandhi, was arrested while travelling from Zurich to West Germany following an INTERPOL alert.

The German authorities not only did not hand him over to a CBI team, which had rushed to Bonn to take him into custody, but sent him back to Vancouver.

Two years later, Parmar played an active role in the conspiracy, which led to the blowing up of the Air India plane 'Kanishka' killing over 300 passengers, the retired R&AW official says adding, "the West German authorities cannot escape a major share of responsibility for this colossal tragedy."

On the storming of the Golden Temple in June 3-6, 1984, Raman writes that as Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his followers started gathering arms inside the complex and a spurt in terrorist incidents was witnessed across the country, there was "panic" in the government when trans-border sources of IB and R&AW reported that ISI was infiltrating Pakistani ex-servicemen and some serving Pakistani armymen into Punjab.

However, these IB and R&AW reports were later proved wrong, he says.

But the "alarm" led Indira Gandhi to frantically find a political solution and to use Akali Dal leaders to pursuade Bhindranwale to vacate the temple.

"Rajiv Gandhi and two of his associates held a number of secret meetings with Akali leaders in a New Delhi guest house of the R&AW. I was given the task of making arrangements for these meetings, recording the discussions, transcribing them and putting up the transcripts to (Rameshwar Nath) Kao for briefing Indira Gandhi," Raman said.

Kao was then the senior advisor to the prime minister.

Maintaining that the talks failed to persuade Akali leaders to see reason and cooperate with the government, he said, "The transcripts, which were kept in the top secret archives of the R&AW, were very valuable records of historic value.

"They showed how earnestly Indira Gandhi tried to avoid having to send the Army into the Golden Temple," he said.

Raman also elaborated on the pros and cons of the army raid, called Operation Blue Star, its impact on the sentiments of the armymen as well as the Sikhs.

The "lingering hurt" aggravated the Khalistani trouble and finally led to the killings of Indira Gandhi and then army chief Gen A S Vaidya.

http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/jul/26raw.htm