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Indian police arrest Sri Lankan national suspected of being ISI agent

Police in Chennai arrested a Sri Lankan national on Tuesday, suspected of being an ISI agent in Pakistan's intelligence service, the Times of India reported.

The suspect, 37-year-old Sakir Hussain from Kandy in Sri Lanka's Central Province, has links to a Pakistani terrorist group and was operating on the instructions of the Pakistani High Commission in Sri Lanka, the paper said.

"In his confession, he admitted to the role of a Pakistani official. It was a shocking revelation. We got some explosive information. The operation is still on," the Times of India quoted a senior [Indian] official as saying.

See here for article by ToI, which has been reproduced on India's Ministry of Defence website.

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