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Defence Experts Suspect ISI Is Behind Disappearance Of Indian Sufi Clerics
Swarajya Staff
Mar 18, 2017, 03:00 PM | Updated 03:00 PM IST
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Commenting over the disappearance of two Indian Sufi clerics in Karachi, defence experts have questioned the Pakistan government saying that a person cannot go missing in an area being guarded by Pakistan’s high-security forces.
Reacting to the reports that Pakistan’s intelligence agencies are behind the abduction of Muslim clerics, Brigadier (Retd) Mahalingam asserted that it is someone who has access to the airport, and it is none another than Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). "I suspect, therefore, it is Pakistan's ISI which has carried this particular abduction and it is Pakistan Government which will have to answer," he said.
Echoing similar sentiments, Brigadier (Retd) Amrit Kapoor said that the missing clerics are major personalities and that their disappearance could possibly be plotted by the Pakistan ISI. He said,
They have realised that these Imams and religious sufis heads can create propaganda, as Indian Government is a democratically elected government and believes in complete freedom of expression.
Two Indian Sufi clerics, who were on a pilgrimage to Pakistan, have gone missing, prompting India to take up the matter with the Pakistani government. Asif Nizami and Nazim Nizami had gone to Karachi to meet their relatives, after which they headed to Lahore to visit the shrines of Sufi saints.
Syed Asif Ali Nizami is the head priest of New Delhi's Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah.
With Inputs From ANI.
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