Friend and Ally Update. “Now, ISI training women for jihad in J&K,” by M Saleem Pandit for the Times of India, January 18:
JAMMU: At the time when militancy in Jammu & Kashmir has fallen to its lowest levels in two decades, desperation across the border is evident with Pakistan’s ISI preparing women terrorists squads to fuel violence in the state.
The revelation of a Pakistani woman, Asiya Bibi (23), who is in J&K police’s custody, that ISI is training about 100 women for terror assignments in the state has sent the security establishment into a tizzy.
Asiya, arrested from Rajouri along the LoC in November last year, told her interrogators that the women fidayeen were undergoing arms training in various terror camps at Bimbar, Kotli and Sena in PoK. “In Bimbar, dozens of women are receiving arms training along with men,” an interrogator quoted Asiya as saying. “Pakistan army soldiers are training women in Sensa and Kotli while ISI men are incharge at Bimbar.”…