India, April 30 -- Indian security agencies have unravelled what appears to be a new espionage strategy of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), involving the use of ordinary highway eateries (dhabas ), restaurants and small roadside outlets as covert surveillance points. These establishments are allegedly being leveraged by the ISI conduits to monitor sensitive military movements, troop deployments and critical logistics along key highways.

This tactic comes amid a series of recent counter-espionage successes. Few weeks ago, the Delhi Police's Special Cell busted an ISI-linked inter-State espionage, terror and arms module, arresting 11 individuals across multiple States for reconnaissance of defence installations and radicalisat...