Indian intelligence agencies have busted a "call centre" being run by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in Jhelum city (Jhelum District of Punjab Province) in Pakistan, reports Times Now News on September 19. The call centre, aimed at targeting the Indian Army and government officials in honey-traps, was being operated with the help of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL). The Centre was using Indian SIM cards, seized by Pakistan customs from Indian travellers, mostly women, visiting their relatives in Pakistan. Over 100 Indian SIM cards have been traced as the Delhi Police launched an investigation. Pakistani girls engaged by the call centre were especially trained in speaking fluent Hindi with a North Indian accent. With the help of ISI handlers, these girls primarily searched Indian security personnel on social media platforms and later approached them. After initial chats with the target group, the girls made video calls on Facebook and WhatsApp and recorded them.
Earlier in 2019, Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh traced 125 fake IDs of women on Facebook, which were a plant of ISI to honey-trap Indian paramilitary and Army officials. The data of fake accounts was shared by Intelligence Bureau and military agency with ATS. The Indian agencies shared its data with other state police since BrahMos Aerospace engineer Nishant Agarwal and Border Security Force (BSF) jawan Achutyanand Mishra were honey-trapped by ISI in October last year.