Nepal cracks down on ISI module

New Delhi: Nepal has alleged that terrorist modules backed by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) have been using its soil for terrorist activities against India, and it has launched a crackdown to counter the cross-border menace.

The Nepal Police has arrested several Pakistani nationals allegedly staying illegally in Nepal and having links with Pakistan-based terrorist groups, people based in Kathmandu told ET. The police recently arrested three Pakistani nationals — Nasir Uddin, Mohammad Akhtar and Nadiya Anbar — and confiscated from them fake Indian currency notes amounting to Rs 80 lakh, said the people. The arrested persons were working for Yunus Ansari, son of a former minister of Nepal, Salim Miya Ansari, they said.

Nepal’s agencies have identified four routes that were being used to sneak counterfeit Indian money in India. The identified routes are Karachi-Doha-Kathmandu, Pakistan-Oman-Kathmandu, Bangkok-Kathmandu and Singapore-Kathmandu, said the people.


Nepal police arrested two other Pakistani nationals — Mohsin Khan, 32, and Puja Mohshin Khan, 31 — from Bhaktapur and they are being interrogated. The duo hailed from Islamabad. Indian security establishment has also noticed an increase in the presence of ISIbacked groups along Nepal’s borders with India over the past few months, according to officials.