Former RAW chief warns of ISI designs on Indian Muslims

NEW DELHI: Former chief of the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence wing, has said Pakistan's ISI is trying to get Indian Muslims involved in "questionable activities".

"ISI with its surrogate jehadi groups is now targeting the Indian Muslims to get them involved in questionable activities", former RAW chief Anand K Verma, who was at the helm of RAW, from 1987-1990, said at the second Pramod Mahajan Conclave on "Threats to India's Internal Security".

"A new era will not dawn in Pakistan untill military is truly confined in barracks", he said adding the President (in Pakistan) still derives his strength form the military.

Dubbing China as another country that India should be concerned about, Verma said Beijing's "core concern" is to maintain its integrity, "territorial or otherwise".