By Our Staff Correspondent
SYDNEY : Former Chief of Pakistan’s spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was welcomed and had dinner with Pakistani and Indian community members in Sydney.
In the third week of January 2016, invitations were sent out by a member of Pakistani community, based in Western Sydney, to welcome and have dinner with former Director General of ISI, General Ehsan Ul-Haq. This particular member of Pakistani community in Sydney is rumoured to be very close to ISI. Gen Haq was in Australia for 3 months.
Many Pakistani members attended that event held in a restaurant in Western Sydney, but surprisingly, several Indians too attended the event. They included top Indian leaders of Subcontinent Friends of Labor, including its President and Secretary and a member of Indian media in Sydney.
A prominent member of the Hindu community, who was actively involved in the welcome event for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Sydney in November 2014 and also is a top leader of OFBJP, too attended the dinner. This has become a matter of significant concern in the Indian community. This particular member is apparently a member of RSS and claims to be close to top BJP leaders.
Many members of Indian community refused to attend the dinner because they did not feel it was right or appropriate to join dinner with an ISI official.
ISI has chequered history of anti-India activities, creating, nurturing and supporting terrorists groups to cause terrorist attacks and mayhem inside India and in Kashmir. Examples of their anti-India activities are numerous. Gen Haq was interviewed by ABC Lateline. Instead of feeling embarrassed about the stay of Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan for several years, Gen Haq was critical of the USA’s raid on the building where Bin Laden was killed.
People are perplexed about the reasons for Indians taking part in such an unusual dinner. They are also perplexed and concerned about the agenda of ISI in Sydney and Australia.
A question is in the minds of many members of Indian community. Will members of Pakistani community in Australia join a dinner event with India’s spy agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW ) officials?
Source: The Indian Subcontinent Times,Sydney
