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‘KP met Taliban for arms running’
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan experts on the LTTE have said that the outfit had a front company in Karachi to smuggle arms, and a safe house in Peshawar to liaise with the Taliban.
According to Shanaka Jayasekara, a terrorism researcher based in Macquarie University, Australia, the LTTE’s arms procurer, Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias KP, had traveled from Bangkok to Kabul through Karachi, on May 19, 2001. He had meetings with Taliban officials on matters relating to the notorious “Sharjah Network”. The “Sharjah network” is an arms supply line run by the infamous Russian arms dealer, Victor Bout, who had operated three to four flights daily to Kabul to transport arms.
Lakbimanews quotes Jayasekara as saying that the LTTE operated a cargo company Otharad Cargo in Dubai, 17 km from the offices of the Sharjah Network.
Otharad Cargo is believed to have acquired several consignments of military hardware as part of consolidated purchase arrangements with the Taliban’s “Sharjah network”.
Jayasekara claims that information recovered from a laptop computer of an LTTE procurement agent, now in the custody of a Western country, has provided detailed information on LTTE’s activities in Pakistan.
According to Rohan Gunaratna, a Sri Lankan expert on terrorism with the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism, in Malaysia, the LTTE had links with Jehadis in the Pakistani frontier and it had a safe house in Peshawar.
Pakistani Prime Minister, Yusuf Raza Gilani, had said that the Sri Lankan President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, had told him in Libya recently, that elements in Sri Lanka were linked with terrorist events in Pakistan, including the gun attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team .
According to Shanaka Jayasekara, a terrorism researcher based in Macquarie University, Australia, the LTTE’s arms procurer, Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias KP, had traveled from Bangkok to Kabul through Karachi, on May 19, 2001. He had meetings with Taliban officials on matters relating to the notorious “Sharjah Network”. The “Sharjah network” is an arms supply line run by the infamous Russian arms dealer, Victor Bout, who had operated three to four flights daily to Kabul to transport arms.
Lakbimanews quotes Jayasekara as saying that the LTTE operated a cargo company Otharad Cargo in Dubai, 17 km from the offices of the Sharjah Network.
Otharad Cargo is believed to have acquired several consignments of military hardware as part of consolidated purchase arrangements with the Taliban’s “Sharjah network”.
Jayasekara claims that information recovered from a laptop computer of an LTTE procurement agent, now in the custody of a Western country, has provided detailed information on LTTE’s activities in Pakistan.
According to Rohan Gunaratna, a Sri Lankan expert on terrorism with the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism, in Malaysia, the LTTE had links with Jehadis in the Pakistani frontier and it had a safe house in Peshawar.
Pakistani Prime Minister, Yusuf Raza Gilani, had said that the Sri Lankan President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, had told him in Libya recently, that elements in Sri Lanka were linked with terrorist events in Pakistan, including the gun attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team .
Express News Service
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