ISI and ISIS are more alike than one thought, suspected ISI agent tells Indian investigators

A man who is suspected to be an ISI agent and was arrested from Meerut on Friday has told the Special Task Force detectives that Pakistan’s intelligence service ISI works very much like Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the extremist militant group.

The man identified as Mohd Aijaz was caught from Bareilly where he lived in disguise has told interrogators that he was sent to Bangladesh, from where he was illegally sent to India after his handlers kept his passport. Reportedly, ISIS recruiters are known to burn passports of their new joinees before sending them to missions.

As per the officials from STF, he said the ISI recruiters had promised him that they would get his sister married and provide financial help to his family. However, they took a U-turn and never fulfilled their commitment, not in the past three years.

"He was given a nine-month training and was perfectly conditioned for the job before he was sneaked into India. He is making such statements to gain sympathy of interrogators. His family includes five brothers and three sisters and one of his brothers, as per his disclosure, is employed with the British High Commission in Pakistan," DSP (STF) Anit Kumar told TOI.

He further stated, "Even when STF sleuths were on his trail, he being a deft computer professional gave little chance to us record his conversation with his handlers in Pakistan. After exchanging pleasantries over phone, they used to switch to Skype through which they used to talk for hours. Since it is not possible to track conversation on Skype, we could not get hold of the contents of these conversations."

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