The intelligence report says: A good number of Chinese enter India on business visas, ostensibly for some clandestine activities.!!!

Threat to the Dalai Lama in India from a Chinese terrorist?
January 7, 2012, 6:02 pm
BY S VENKAT NARAYAN
Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, January 7: The Mumbai police have received intelligence that some terrorists from the Tibetan region of China may sneak in to India to eliminate the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual guru, the Dalai Lama.

Reporting this today, The Times of India quoted intelligence claiming that a Chinese national of Tibetan origin by the name Tashi Phuntsok is likely to enter India to gather intelligence on the Tibetan administration as well as to cause harm to the 77-year-old Dalai Lama.



The intelligence also says that six Chinese nationals of Tibetan origin, including Phuntsok, possibly from Chinese secret services, are suspected.



The intelligence report says: "A good number of Chinese youth enter India on business visas, ostensibly for some clandestine activities. It’s likely that they may try to visit certain areas prohibited for the Chinese, like Tibetan camps.



"The Dalai Lama visits Mumbai and other places in Maharashtra. The threat to him must not be underestimated. Loss of Chinese passports and recovery of unknown Chinese passports need to be reported promptly, so that the concerned agencies can question them. In this regard, the activities of the followers of ‘Shugden cult—- an anti-Dalai Lama group—-need to be kept under strict vigil."



The Mumbai police have informed Tibetan organizations, and directed the Special Branch and the local police to keep police officers updated about the Dalai Lama’s visit to Mumbai. "He often comes to Mumbai and even goes to slums and mixes with people. We will have to enhance security cover fom him in Mumbai,’’ the newspaper quoted a Mumbai police officer as saying.



The 14th Dalai Lama has been living in exile eversince he fled to India along with 80,000 of his followers on 30 March 1959 in the wake of an uprising in his native Tibet. He and several thousands of his followers live in Dharamsala in the foothills of the Himalayas in Himachal Pradesh in north India.



The winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize used to be the Tibetans’ spiritual guru and head of state of the Tibetan administration-in-exile. In March last year, he resigned as head of state but continues as the spiritual guru. Last year, he was rated as the second most spiritually influential person in the world.



While China dubs him as a "splittist" who wants to break Tibet away from China, the Dalai Lama insists that he only wants religious and political freedom for his people, and not separation from China.

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