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Tamil Nadu still a base for smuggling by LTTE

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Pakistan has not yet dismantled its terror infrastructure: Home Ministry report

NEW DELHI: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) continues to use Tamil Nadu as a base for carrying out the smuggling of essential items such as petrol and diesel, besides drugs, to Sri Lanka.

The LTTE's insistence on the recognition of the Sea Tigers as a separate unit by the Sri Lankan Government poses yet another threat to India's security, the Union Home Ministry's annual report for 2004-05 says.

Notwithstanding the current peace process, the LTTE is yet to give up violence as a means to achieving its goal of establishing a separate homeland for Tamils.

"It is well-known that the intelligence wing of LTTE maintains exhaustive data on personalities who are opposed to the outfit's ideology for engineering their assassination, if considered necessary," the report says.

It says that the LTTE continues to be an "extremely potent, most lethal and well-organised terrorist force in Sri Lanka and has strong connections in Tamil Nadu and certain pockets of southern India."

First declared as "an unlawful association" under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 on May 14, 1992, the LTTE was further notified as an unlawful association and the latest ban on it was extended for two years with effect from May 14, 2004.

Referring to the activities of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence in India, the report says that Pakistan has not yet dismantled the terrorist infrastructure in the territory under its control. The infrastructure is continued to be sponsored and used by the ISI to recruit, train and finance terrorists and infiltrate them into India.

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