Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is funding militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to train Rohingyas living in Cox Bazar refugee camps to carry out terror attacks in India, according to media reports.
An intelligence report accessed by India's Zee Media states that the ISI has recruited at least 40 Rohingyas for its mission, DNA India reports on Thursday (Jan 9).
According to the report, ISI is said to have given Rs 10 million as part of its first installment to the JMB to train the refugees.
"Sources have claimed that the Pakistani intelligence agency has received funds from groups in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, and Pakistan for the training," reads the DNA India report.
The intelligence report has been shared with the Indian security agencies including the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Border Security Force and Research and Analysis Wing who are keeping a close watch on the activities of JMB terrorists and Rohingyas, according to DNA India.
Outlawed in Bangladesh since 2005, India banned JMB, which is also known as Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen India or Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Hindustan, in May 2019.
In December last year, India a 22-year-old suspected JMB operative was arrested in West Bengal in connection with a terror module in the Indian city of Bengaluru.
The suspected identified as Mosaraf Hossain alias Moosa was reportedly involved in a terror module.
The module was busted in Bengaluru in May 2019 after a large quantity of arms and ammunition including hand grenades and circuits of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were recovered from a house, which was allegedly rented by JMB terrorists, in Bengaluru's Chikkabanavara in July 2019.