The NIA arrests of seven foreign nationals including one American and six Ukranians show the deeper conspiracies and the saboteur-forces at play in north east of India.
In the misty hills of the region, anti-India forces are active for quite sometime now. Maybe it all kicked off around 2023 or prior to that.
These arrests are part of an ongoing investigation by NIA and other agencies into foreign involvement in the ethnic conflicts and insurgent activities in North East India.
Some of the patters of evil designs suggest the forces inimical to India are well aware that violence and instability in Manipur and other troubles in states such as Nagaland, Meghalaya and Mizoram would certainly harm India's long-term as well as short term strategic interests.
It could even derail the much ambitious “Act East Policy".
Multiple security agencies say there are other challenges too. For example in Nagaland and parts of Manipur, India’s constitutional writ meets the unyielding grip of insurgent parallel administrations, a suffocating web of Extortion and over-taxation persists virtually unchallenged.
The fact that one American was held from Kolkata suggests these elements are quite active in the eastern and north eastern parts of India. Moreover, the Mizoram-Myanmar angles also look too obvious. Nevertheless they are matter of concern.
The situation in Manipur has not only embarrassed PM Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and the BJP but these have derailed the progress achieved by the state since 2014 and especially after 2017 when the BJP government took charge of the state.
Since 2014 when Modi became Prime Minister, the centre has been focusing on developing economic cooperation and strategic relationships with countries in the wider Indo-Pacific region and the so-called South East Asia.
The Modi dispensation is keen on moving forward at bilateral, regional, and multilateral levels to enhance political, economic, cultural and people-to-people relations in the north east. Prior to 2023, in more ways than one, Manipur's growth graph was being shown outside the region. But the 2023 Kuki-Meitei clashes have given handle to Modi’s critics to point out at the official and political-level lapses.
Worse, a deliberate twist was given even by parties such as the Congress and Trinamool Congress and Christian commentators even from Kerala that the clashes were based on religious divisions - that is between Hindu Meiteis and Christian Kukis.
Things have not improved in Manipur yet and now there are growing incidents of violent clashes between Kukis and Nagas in Manipur.
One source in the know of things point out that more than 28 Naga groups are active including the dominant NSCN-IM and other NSCN factions both operating within Nagaland and also in parts of Myanmar.
"Often they operate as de facto governments and think tanks extracting “taxes” that strangle businesses, erode livelihoods, and mock the authority of law enforcing agencies and the politico-civil governments," the source maintained.
Sadly, they admit as of March 2026, the nexus of wrongdoers and the racket show "no signs of abating" and the peace talks stalled.
"We need not be clueless... but we are happy about public perception and the growing trends of changes in that.... the fact is the public outrage is simmering and everyone wants an early Solution," the source maintained.
Another analyst says the economic toll is devastating both for Nagaland and Manipur and even parts of Arunachal Pradesh.
Annual collections -- estimated at Rs 170 crore for one particular Naga faction is worrisome. These may fund cadres but easily cripple commerce, the source said adding the Prime Minister's "demonetization in 2016" and note bans had actually exposed the cash-dependent racket.
In 2023 itself, Union Home Minister Amit Shah had told the Parliament on Aug. 9th that, “people crossing over from Myanmar” were responsible for the distressing situation in Manipur.
The problems have mounted over the last three-years because the Kuki-Zo population now want a homeland (anUT or preferably a state) carved out for them within Manipur.
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During the financial year 2025–2026, strong enforcement action was undertaken by the Mizoram Excise & Narcotics Department against drug trafficking, resulting in the arrest and prosecution of 611 offenders and the seizure of nearly 474 kilograms of contraband drugs, along with the destruction of ganja plants.
In the area of liquor prohibition, the Mizoram Liquor (Prohibition) Amendment Act, 2025 and the Mizoram Liquor (Prohibition) Rules, 2025 were formally notified in October 2025, providing a strengthened legal framework for enforcement. Following the notification, rigorous implementation of the Act led to the arrest of over 4,000 persons and the registration of a large number of cases for violations.
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