The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) intends to increase terror funding via narcotics and launch a major misinformation campaign against Indian Government, News18 reports on December 21. Narco funding is one of the biggest routes through which the ISI wants to re-establish its roots in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and is sending in drug consignments through infiltrating terrorists or drug dealers sitting on both sides of the border, the intelligence sources reported. ISI wants to turn local youths into addicts in order to expand its business and make youths available to terror groups on short notice, it further said. ISI is also working with Khalistani terrorists and has created a nexus of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) terrorists in Pakistan and overground workers (OGWs) in India, they added. As per sources, the HM groups are given the task of handling the distribution of narcotics for sale to their partners in the Kashmir Valley, which later cross state boundaries into Punjab for the illegal sale of the narcotics. These groups are called the Kashmir Khalistani desk at ISI, who suspectedly engage in financial transactions through hawala (illegal money transaction) channels also.