Yatish Yadav By

NEW DELHI: Indian security establishment on Wednesday rejected reports in the US media that IS terror outfit was planning to attack India.

“The alleged document, ‘A Brief History of the Islamic State Caliphate’ is illogical and poor propaganda by some foreign intelligence agencies,” a senior official said, hinting that it could be handiwork of Pakistan’s ISI and terror outfits sponsored by the Pak agency to trigger fear in South-East Asia.

“IS has some traction but to say an attack will lead to confrontation with the US and so on only shows poor drafting by an intelligence operative. We have all the reasons to believe that IS sympathisers in Pakistan’s tribal region are linked to Pak establishment and Pakistani terror outfits may carry out terror activities under the IS veil,” he further said.

After the report citing the 32-page Urdu-language document surfaced in the public domain, top security and intelligence officers analysed it in the light of recent inputs generated by the country’s external spy agency RAW.

A RAW note reviewed by Express makes it clear that ‘Wilayat Khurasan’, an Af-Pak-based group which was accorded the status of Wilayat by IS, has linkages of its leaders with the Pak establishment. The RAW has clearly stated that Pak link with Wilayat Khurasan is a matter of serious concern for India.

The RAW gave several reasons while arguing that Wilayat Khurasan unlike other Wilayats across MiddleEast and North Africa called upon recruits to join Jihad in Syria and Iraq.

The linkages with Pak establishment also became clear when Wilayat Khurasan appointed former Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander Hafiz Saeed Khan as chief of Khurasan and Abdur Rauf Khadim as the deputy chief.

A senior intelligence officer, while decoding the threat from IS, indicated that at least two Pakistani terrorists-- Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost and Asmatullah Muawaiya-- were roped in by Wilayat Khurasan.