acknowledgement in 2011 in US Court, said that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) sponsors terrorism in Kashmir and it oversees terrorist separatist groups in Kashmir. In 2019, Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan publicly discouraged Pakistani people from going to Kashmir to do a jihad. People who went to Kashmir will do an "injustice to the Kashmiri people". Most of the Pakistani militants who had crossed the border over the years and were caught by the Indian security forces were found to belong to the Punjab province of Pakistan. India has also accused the ISI of reinvigorating separatism and insurgencies in the country via support to pro-Khalistan militant groups such as the International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF), in order to destabilize India. A report by India's Intelligence Bureau (IB) indicated that ISI was "desperately trying to revive Sikh" militant activity in India. The ISI is also allegedly active in printing and supplying counterfeit Indian rupee notes. Scope and objectives of the program The primary objectives of Pakistan's Operation Tupac upon its execution were: to provide arms support and finance to separatists, militants and Islamists in India. to trigger a Balkanization of India. to utilize the spy network to act as an instrument of sabotage. to exploit porous borders with Nepal and Bangladesh, Myanmar to set up bases and train anti-india militants for conduct operations against india. to install sleeper cells in india and its neighbour countries. Operation Tupac & Insurgency in Jammu & Kashmir After the Mujahideen victory against the Soviet Union occupation in Afghanistan, Mujahideen fighters, under the Operation Tupac with the aid of Pakistan, slowly infiltrated Kashmir with the goal of spreading a Radical Islamist ideology to Jihad against indian occupation in Jammu and Kashmir. See also Inter-Services Intelligence activities in India, an overview of the covert activities of Pakistan's ISI within India Pakistan and state-sponsored terrorism, an overview of Pakistan's involvement with and exploitation of militant groups Bleed India with a Thousand Cuts, a doctrine of the Pakistani military Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, an ongoing militant uprising in Indian-administered Kashmir against Indian rule References Tupac Inter-Services Intelligence operations Cold War conflicts Kashmir conflict India–Pakistan relations