Guwahati: The Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan is backing Northeast-based militant groups having camps in Bangladesh with the help of al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorist organisation, the Border Security Force (BSF) claimed.

"The Northeast-based terrorist outfits, including the ULFA (United Liberation Front of Assam), NDFB (National Democratic Front of Bodoland) and other groups, are aided by the ISI in their camps in Bangladesh through the al-Qaeda and Taliban and the BSF is on alert," M N Sajjan, the additional deputy inspector general of BSF, said on the occasion of the para-military force's 38th Raising Day in Guwahati.

Refering to increasing acts of violence in Assam, he said that additional three battalions of BSF were being brought in and so far the para-military force has been able to apprehend 10 miscreants in anti- Bihari violence in the State.

He admitted that the illegal influx along the Bangladesh-Assam border was going on and attributed it to similarities between the two peoples and the identical language spoken by them.

But in the Meghalaya sector, even local people opposed infiltration because of ethnic differences.

The BSF's three companies stationed in the troubled Tinsukia district in Upper Assam have been able to quell many a trouble and the Government has asked for more companies, he said.

PTI