New Delhi: India’s maritime neighbour Maldives emerged as the biggest per capita contributor to terror outfit ISIS while India is one of the world’s lowest in this regard, top government sources have said.
The revelation has sent shockwaves through the Indian security establishment. According to some reports, Indian intelligence agencies had earlier suspected that the Pakistani ISI was trying to expand its sphere of influence to the maritime archipelago which is not very far from India’s southern coast.
Intelligence agencies had also suspected that the ISI along with Pakistani terror outfits were trying to spread radicalism in the Maldives to fan hatred against India.
Sources, at the same time, said that India being one of the lowest per capita contributors to the ISIS indicates that the ISIS has not been very successful in spreading its tentacles in India.
It may be recalled that the Indian government had recently said that the efforts of terror group ISIS to gain recruits from India has “met with limited success largely owing to our own pluralist society and inclusive democratic experience” and that while “there are reported to be a small number of Indian jihadi fighters in Iraqi-Syrian war zones, the government is taking measures to control this through immigration controls, intelligence sharing, and liaison with states”.
So far as the Maldives is concerned, India had recently welcomed the decision of the Maldives to allow the jailed former president Mohamed Nasheed to travel to the UK for medical treatment.
Speculation is rife that New Delhi may have suggested and persuaded the archipelago nation to allow the former president—-seen by many to be pro-India—-to go abroad for the medical treatment.
