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NIA attaches 3 properties in Srinagar belonging to 2 Hurriyat leaders in terror funding case
2023-06-14


NIA attaches property of incarcerated Hurriyat (G) leader Ayaz Akbar in Srinagar

[GreaterKashmir] National Investigation Agency (NIA) Tuesday attached the property of incarcerated Hurriyat (G) leader Ayaz Akbar in Shalteng area of Srinagar.

Quoting officials, news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) reported that NIA pasted the notice of attachment on the immovable property that read “this is to inform all members of the public that the immovable property ie. land measuring 1 Kanal and 10 Marias under Survey No, 31 at mauza Shalteng Tehsil Srinagar (J8K), in the name of Muhammad Akbar Khanday So Ab. Rehman Khanday, R/o Malora near Imam-ul-Bana Masjid, P.S Parimpora, Srinagar, J&K, as Abadi Deh, has been attached under the Court Orders dated May 31, 2023 in RC-101 20177 NIA/ DLI, by the Special NIA Court, Patiala House Courts, New Dehli.” Muhammad Akbar Khanday is the father of Ayaz Akbar, who is presently serving detention in New Delh’s Tihar Jail since past six years. Ayaz Akbar’s wife passed away in April this year after losing battle to cancer.

NIA attaches two more properties in terror funding case in Kashmir

[GreaterKashmir] A day after attaching 17 properties of Zahoor Ahmed Shah Watali, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday attached two more properties, belonging to another accused, in the Hurriyat terror funding case in Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
, the agency said in a statement.

The properties of All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC)
...an alliance of 26 political, social and religious Moslem organizations formed in 1993 as a united political front to raise the cause of Kashmiri separatism. In other words, a willing tool of Pakistan...
separatist leader Mohammad Akbar Khanday include nine kanal land and a 2-storeyed house in Srinagar. These have been attached on the orders of Special NIA Court, New Delhi, under section 33(1) of UAPA.

"Khanday, currently in Tihar Jail facing trial in the terror funding case, was the Spokesperson/ Media advisor of Hurriyat Conference (G). He was raising and collecting funds from within India and abroad through various illegal channels and was using the same to sponsor and promote separatist and terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir," the NIA said.

The statement said that Khanday, who was closely connected with other separatist leaders of the APHC, was operating in close association with Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) and he used to collect funds for unlawful and violent mostly peaceful activities. He was also actively involved in activities aimed at secession of Jammu and Kashmir from the Union of India, NIA investigations have revealed, it said.

The case, filed suo moto by NIA in May 2017, relates to terrorist and secessionist activities being carried out by ISI-backed proscribed terrorist organizations in Jammu and Kashmir. These banned outfits, including Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
(LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammad
...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat...
(JeM), Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) etc, were using the APHC as a front for their activities, NIA investigations stated. They were spreading terror and perpetrating violence in the Kashmir valley by promoting and conducting attacks on civilians and security forces, it said.

The agency has so far filed chargehsheets against 17 persons, including Hafeez Saeed, the Amir of Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
h and LeT and a UN listed terrorist, as well as Mohd. Yusuf Shah@ Syed Salahuddin
...the aging, morbidly obese chief of Hizbul Mujaheddin and the titular head of the United Jihad Council in idyllic Kashmire. Originally owned body and theoretical soul by Jamaat-e-Islami he and his organization are currently controlled by Pakistain's ISI. Salahuddin's hobbies include crocheting doilies shaped like the Taj Mahal, combing his enormous beard, and eating....
, the Chief of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM).

Related:
Hurriyat: 2023-05-04 Senior separatist among 3 found involved in terror funding: SIA
Hurriyat: 2023-04-05 Residences of two Hurriyat leaders among six locations raided by SIA in Kashmir: Officials
Hurriyat: 2023-03-05 NIA attaches property of militant comdr killed in Pak
Related:
Ayaz Akbar: 2015-09-04 Hurriyat's Geelani writes 'secret' letter to Sharif
Ayaz Akbar: 2008-08-24 1 killed, indefinite curfew clamped all over Kashmir valley
Related:
Srinagar: 2023-06-11 4 Kashmiris among 5 with links to Islamic State arrested: DGP Gujarat
Srinagar: 2023-06-01 In crackdown on newly floated terror outfits, raids in Srinagar, Budgam: NIA
Srinagar: 2023-06-01 Four Pakistani Terrorists Intercepted By Indian Army Along Line Of Control
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NIA attaches house, land of Hizb chief's two sons in Srinagar, Budgam
2023-04-25
[GreaterKashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
] National Investigation Agency (NIA) has attached the properties of Hizb Chief Syed Salahuddin
...the aging, morbidly obese chief of Hizbul Mujaheddin and the titular head of the United Jihad Council in idyllic Kashmire. Originally owned body and theoretical soul by Jamaat-e-Islami he and his organization are currently controlled by Pakistain's ISI. Salahuddin's hobbies include crocheting doilies shaped like the Taj Mahal, combing his enormous beard, and eating....
’s two sons in Srinagar and Budgam districts.

"The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday attached two properties of the sons of designated terrorist Syed Mohammed Yusuf Shah @ Syed Salahudeen, the self-styled Supreme Commander of Hizb-Ul-Mujahideen (HM) and Chairman of United Jihad Council (UJC)," said an NIA front man, in a statement.

He said the immovable properties of Shahid Yusuf and Syed Ahmed Shakeel, located in Kashmir — in Soibugh Tehsil, Distt. Budgam and Nursing Garh, Mohalla Ram Bagh, have been attached under section 33(1) of UA( P) Act.

Both Shahid Yusuf and Syed Ahmed Shakeel are lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail since their arrest in October 2017 and August 2018. They were chargesheeted on 20th April 2018 and 20th November 2018, respectively. "The duo had been receiving funds from abroad from the associates of their father and overground workers of HM," read the statement.

"Syed Salahudeen, who had fled to Pakistain in 1993, was designated as an individual terrorist by India in October 2020. He continues to operate from Pakistain, from where he is guiding and instructing HUM cadres as well as self-proclaimed geniuss of UJC, also known as Muttahida Jihad Council (MJC) which is a conglomerate of around 13 Pakistain-based Kashmir centric terror outfits," said the statement.

"Besides instigating and operationalising murderous Moslem activities in India, primarily in Kashmir valley, Syed Salahudeen has been raising funds and routing finances to India through trade routes, Hawala channels, and international money transfer channels for furthering the terrorist activities of HM cadres."

"The NIA launched investigations in November 2011 into the criminal conspiracy to raise/collect/provide funds to commit terrorist acts and distribute funds among the terror groups and their sympathizers in Jammu and Kashmir for the purpose of committing terrorist acts. The Special Cell of Delhi Police had initially started the paperwork but haven't done much else in January 2011 and the case was subsequently taken over by NIA. Chargesheets as well as Supplementary Chargesheets were filed against eight accused in the case, including in 2011 and 2018."

"NIA has been cracking down on terror funding machinery in a bid to dismantle the terrorist financing ecosystem operating in Jammu and Kashmir with the help of individuals based in Pakistain and other countries. On Monday itself, the agency had also seized six shops in Awantipora in a case relating to a 2018 attack on CRPF Group Centre at Lethpora, J&K. Some land, including a house, belonging to the father of one of the accused was also attached in the same case in September 2020. In 2021, NIA had attached residential properties belonging to the kin of two accused in the case of the terrorist attack on CRPF Convoy at Lethpora, Pulwama. Another residential property has also been attached by NIA in the case relating to the killing of two brothers (Anil Parihar and Ajit Parihar)."
Related:
Syed Salahuddin: 2023-03-05 NIA attaches property of militant comdr killed in Pak
Syed Salahuddin: 2023-02-25 Good Morning
Syed Salahuddin: 2023-02-25 Hizbul chief Syed Salahuddin spotted at funeral of top terrorist wanted in India, killed in Pak
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India-Pakistan
LeT hideout busted in Anantnag; arms, ammunition recovered: Police
2023-03-13


Related:
Anantnag: 2023-02-23 Woman among three persons arrested in ‘narco terror’ case in Kashmir: SIA
Anantnag: 2023-01-02 Year 2022: Life span of terrorists down in J&K, 89% killed within one month of joining terror group
Anantnag: 2023-01-01 Amir Khan, Dy Chairman of United Jihad Council, based in Pakistan but originally from Liver village of Anantnag, had encroached upon 3 Marlas public land on gun point
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India-Pakistan
Hizbul chief Syed Salahuddin spotted at funeral of top terrorist wanted in India, killed in Pak
2023-02-25
[OneIndia] Hizbul Mujahideen
...Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003...
Chief and Pathankot terror attack criminal mastermind, Syed Salahuddin
...the aging, morbidly obese chief of Hizbul Mujaheddin and the titular head of the United Jihad Council in idyllic Kashmire. Originally owned body and theoretical soul by Jamaat-e-Islami he and his organization are currently controlled by Pakistain's ISI. Salahuddin's hobbies include crocheting doilies shaped like the Taj Mahal, combing his enormous beard, and eating....
was spotted publicly leading the funeral of top Hizbul commander Bashir Ahmad Peer alias Imtiyaz Alam in Pakistain's Rawalpindi.

Peer, who was reportedly in charge of launching turbans into Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
through Line of Control, was designated a terrorist by the Centre on October 4 last year under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for his role in terror activities.

According to the notification, Peer participated in a number of online propaganda groups to unite ex-murderous Moslems and other cadres for the expansion of activities of Hizbul Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
, and other terrorist organizations.

Syed Salahuddin is a Kashmiri separatist leader and the chief of Hizbul Mujahideen, a hard boy group based in Jammu and Kashmir, India. He is also the chairman of the United Jihad Council (UJC), an umbrella organization of various hard boy groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir.

He founded Hizbul Mujahideen in 1989 and has since been leading the group's armed struggle against the Indian security forces in Jammu and Kashmir.

On October 4 of last year, the Narendra Modi government designated Peer as a terrorist under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

In 2017, the US designated him as a global terrorist, freezing his assets and prohibiting US citizens from doing business with him.
Related:
Syed Salahuddin: 2023-01-02 Year 2022: Life span of terrorists down in J&K, 89% killed within one month of joining terror group
Syed Salahuddin: 2022-08-14 Hizb chief's son, ex-LeT terrorist among 4 dismissed from Govt jobs
Syed Salahuddin: 2022-07-26 Highly radicalised Lashkar operative masquerading as food delivery boy arrested in Bengaluru
Related:
Rawalpindi: 2023-02-20 Daily Evacuation Brief February 19, 2023
Rawalpindi: 2023-02-10 Terror bids foiled, two suspects held: CTD
Rawalpindi: 2023-02-06 Bride-to-be banged on wedding day in Rawalpindi
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India-Pakistan
Year 2022: Life span of terrorists down in J&K, 89% killed within one month of joining terror group
2023-01-02
Sounds impressive!
[OneIndia] In 2022, the security forces have shot full of holes 172 Lions of Islam in 2022 in a total of 93 counter-terror operations, additional director general of police, Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
Zone Vijay Kumar said.

He said that a majority of these Lions of Islam who were shot full of holes belonged to the The Resistence Front a derivative of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, followed by Jaish-e-Mohammad
...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat...
, Hizbul Mujahideen
...Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003...
, al-Badr and al-Qaeda's proxy Ansar Ghazwat ul-Hind.

He also informed that the life span of newly recruited Lions of Islam declined drastically in 2022 as 89 per cent of the newly recruited Lions of Islam were neutralised within the first month of them joining a terror group.

"This year, 100 fresh recruitments into terrorist ranks were reported showing a decline of 37% compared to last year. Maximum (74) joined LeT. Out of total recruitment, 65 Lions of Islam neutralised in encounters, 17 Lions of Islam arrested and 18 Lions of Islam are still active," Kumar said.

"During year 2022, total 93 successful encounters took place in Kashmir in which 172 Lions of Islam including 42 foreign Lions of Islam got neutralised. Maximum Lions of Islam neutralised from LeT/TRF(108) outfit followed by JeM (35), HM (22), al-Badr (4) and AGuH(3) outfits," Kumar was quoted as saying on the official handle of the Kashmir Zone Police.

This year the security forces further intensified operations amidst Pakistain trying to push more Lions of Islam in the Valley. There had also been an increase in the number of civilian killings. As many as 29 civilians, including 21 locals were killed by Lions of Islam this year. Of the 15 killed in assassinations, 15 were Moslems and six were Hindus. Kumar added that all Lions of Islam involved in these killings had been neutralised, barring two who have been identified as Basit Dar and Adil Wani. He assured that they would be neutralised soon.

Kumar added, rather they appeal them to return back, curse Lions of Islam openly and work with Jammu and Kashmir Police for the return of their wards.
Related:
Kashmir: 2023-01-01 Amir Khan, Dy Chairman of United Jihad Council, based in Pakistan but originally from Liver village of Anantnag, had encroached upon 3 Marlas public land on gun point
Kashmir: 2022-12-29 Four terrorists killed in Jammu encounter: ADGP Jammu
Kashmir: 2022-12-28 Gunfight breaks out in Jammu
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India-Pakistan
Amir Khan, Dy Chairman of United Jihad Council, based in Pakistan but originally from Liver village of Anantnag, had encroached upon 3 Marlas public land on gun point
2023-01-01
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Hizb chief's son, ex-LeT terrorist among 4 dismissed from Govt jobs
2022-08-14
[GREATERKASHMIR] J&K government on Saturday dismissed its four more employees invoking Article 311 of the Constitution of India for their involvement in "anti-national activities, prejudicial to the interests of security of the State."

Those sacked also included the son of Hizbul Mujahideen
...Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003...
chief Syed Salahuddin
...the aging, morbidly obese chief of Hizbul Mujaheddin and the titular head of the United Jihad Council in idyllic Kashmire. Originally owned body and theoretical soul by Jamaat-e-Islami he and his organization are currently controlled by Pakistain's ISI. Salahuddin's hobbies include crocheting doilies shaped like the Taj Mahal, combing his enormous beard, and eating....
and wife of Bitta Karate, who is presently in judicial custody in terror funding cases.

While HM chief’s son was accused of having role in three terror attacks on JKEDI complex at Sempora; Karate’s wife was alleged to have been involved in ferrying consignment of money for funding anti-India activities in Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
These employees were dismissed through four separate GAD orders, issued on behalf of the Lieutenant Governor of J&K, citing sub-clause (c) of the proviso to clause (2) of the Article 311 of the Constitution of India.

This sub clause provides that in the interest of the security of the state, it is not expedient to hold inquiry before the removal or dismissal of a civil servant, if the President or Governor, as the case may be, is satisfied.

The orders were issued after the Committee constituted vide Government Order No. 738-JK(GAD) of 2020 dated July 30, 2020 for scrutinizing the inputs, records and cognizable material recommended dismissal of Dr Muheet Ahmad Bhat, Scientist-D in Post-Graduate Department of Computer Science, University of Kashmir, son of Ghulam Rasool Bhat; Majid Hussain Qadri, Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Management Studies, University of Kashmir, son of Khurshid Ahmad Qadri; Syed Abdul Mueed, Manager, IT, JKEDI, son of Syed Mohd Yousaf (alias Syed Salahuddin) and Assabah-ul-Arjamand Khan, JKAS, DPO, Publicity, Directorate of Rural Development, Kashmir, wife of Farooq Ahmad Dar (alias Bitta Karate).

Official sources stated that the activities of these employees had "come to the adverse notice of law enforcement and intelligence agencies, as they had been found involved in activities prejudicial to the interests of the security of the State."
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NIA court to frame formal charges against Yasin Malik in terror funding case on April 18
2022-04-12
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

A Special NIA Court on Monday said that it will frame formal charges against Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik
...chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region...
and others on April 18 in connection with a terror funding case.
I s’pose funding terrorists is peaceful in the sense that Mr. Malik himself is not raising his hand against others...
On the last date of hearing on March 19, the court had ordered framing of charges against Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
(LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go....
, Hizbul Mujahideen
...Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003...
chief Syed Salahuddin
...the aging, morbidly obese chief of Hizbul Mujaheddin and the titular head of the United Jihad Council in idyllic Kashmire. Originally owned body and theoretical soul by Jamaat-e-Islami he and his organization are currently controlled by Pakistain's ISI. Salahuddin's hobbies include crocheting doilies shaped like the Taj Mahal, combing his enormous beard, and eating....
and others for hatching criminal conspiracy, waging war against the country and other unlawful activities.

Kashmiri separatist leaders, including Yasin Malik, Shabbir Shah, Masarat Alam, former MLA Rashid Engineer, businessman Zahoor Ahmad Shah Watali, Bitta Karate, Aftab Ahmad Shah, Avatar Ahmad Shah, Naeem Khan, Bashir Ahmed Bhat, alias Peer Saifullah and several others have also been framed under charges for criminal conspiracy, waging war against the country and other unlawful activities.

In the order dated March 16, the NIA special Judge Praveen Singh had said: "The above analysis reflects that the statements of witnesses and documentary evidence have connected almost all the accused with each other and to a common object of secession, to the commonality of means they were to use, their close association to terrorist/terrorist organizations under the guiding hand and funding of Pak establishment."

Notably, the court has discharged three, namely Kamran Yusuf, Javed Ahmad Bhatt and Syedah Aasiya Firdous Andrabi.

The case related to the various terrorist outfits Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Hizbul-Mujahideen (HM), Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
Liberation Front (JKLF) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) backed by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
were perpetrating terrorist and secessionist activities to disturb Jammu and Kashmir.
Related:
Yasin Malik: 2022-04-10 Pakistan's anti-terrorism court sentences Hafiz Saeed in terror financing cases
Yasin Malik: 2022-03-28 J&K: More NGOs come under scanner as NIA gets cracking on terror funding
Yasin Malik: 2022-03-23 Murder, terror funding, hawala, money laundering: The unending list of crimes by Yasin Malik
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J&K: More NGOs come under scanner as NIA gets cracking on terror funding
2022-03-28
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency on Sunday conducted a search at Sonwar Bagh in Srinagar in connection with the NGO terror funding case.

The NIA said that the case pertains to the transfer of funds by certain NGOs, Trusts, Societies and Organisations on behalf of separatist and terror organizations. The movie was to sustain secessionist and terror activities in Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
, the NIA also said. During the search at the premises of the suspect, the NIA recovered documents relating to financial transactions.

The developments comes a week after an NIA court ordered framing of charges under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) against Lashkar-e-Tayiba chief, Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go....
, Kashmir separatist leaders including Yasin Malik
...chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region...
, Shabbir Shah, Masarat Alam and Hizbul Mujahideen
...Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003...
head, Syed Salahuddin
...the aging, morbidly obese chief of Hizbul Mujaheddin and the titular head of the United Jihad Council in idyllic Kashmire. Originally owned body and theoretical soul by Jamaat-e-Islami he and his organization are currently controlled by Pakistain's ISI. Salahuddin's hobbies include crocheting doilies shaped like the Taj Mahal, combing his enormous beard, and eating....
in connection with a terror funding case.

The NIA judge, Praveen Singh said that the above analysis reflects that the statements of witnesses and documentary evidence have connected almost all the accused with each other and to a common object of secession, to the commonality of means they were to use, their close association to terrorist/terrorist organizations under the guiding hand and funding of Pak establishment.

While all the above mentioned persons have played a huge role in furthering terror in Jammu and Kashmir, one of the most notorious among them is Yasin Malik. The several documents on Malik seen by OneIndia suggest that the cases against him are not ordinary in nature. They range from acts of terror, causing unrest and also murder of Indian Air Force officials.

Malik's name also cropped in terror funding cases since 1995. In 2019, the Centre had banned his outfit, the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). Malik is also facing cases relating to the kidnapping of Rubaiya Saeed, daughter of then Union home minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, in 1989, and the killing of four IAF personnel in 1990.

An official tells OneIndia that some of the key findings in the probe on terror funding have been the route and source of the funds. Further it was also found that several separatists had routed funds for their personal use as well. It was also learnt that businessman Zahoor Ahamad Shah Watali is one of the main hawala conduit who used to generate and receive funds from Pakistain, ISI, UAE and had floated various shell companies to disguise foreign remittances for further transfer to separatist leaders and stone pelters in the valley. These funds were used to fuel unrest in the Kashmir valley and organise violent mostly peaceful agitations and anti-India activities which resulted in large scale violence leading to numerous injuries and deaths of civilians and security forces.

During his interrogation Malik told the NIA that Hurriyat Conference Gilani Group collected funds from business community as well as certain other sources and ensured that economic shut down and violent mostly peaceful protests continue to disrupt the daily life of common citizens in the valley.

Asiya Andrabi admitted that she had been collecting funds and donations from foreign sources and Duktaran-e-Milat had been organising protests by muslim women in the valley. Asiya Andrabi was confronted with evidence regarding funding of educational expenses of her son in Malaysia from 2011 onwards through foreign remittances made by Zahoor Watali.

Masarat Alam, the so called poster boy of stone pelters and violent mostly peaceful agitations in Kashmir valley, during his custodial interrogation, revealed that Pakistain based agents route the funds through hawala operators which were transferred to the separatist leaders including Syed Shah Gilani Chairman APHC(G).
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Srinagar: 2022-03-23 Murder, terror funding, hawala, money laundering: The unending list of crimes by Yasin Malik
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India-Pakistan
Murder, terror funding, hawala, money laundering: The unending list of crimes by Yasin Malik
2022-03-23
[Oneindia] A court of the National Investigation Agency has ordered framing charges under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) against Lashkar-e-Tayiba chief, Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go....
, Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
separatist leaders including Yasin Malik
...chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region...
, Shabbir Shah, Masarat Alam and Hizbul Mujahideen
...Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003...
head, Syed Salahuddin
...the aging, morbidly obese chief of Hizbul Mujaheddin and the titular head of the United Jihad Council in idyllic Kashmire. Originally owned body and theoretical soul by Jamaat-e-Islami he and his organization are currently controlled by Pakistain's ISI. Salahuddin's hobbies include crocheting doilies shaped like the Taj Mahal, combing his enormous beard, and eating....
. The case on hand relates to terror funding.

The NIA judge, Praveen Singh said that the above analysis reflects that the statements of witnesses and documentary evidence have connected almost all the accused with each other and to a common object of secession, to the commonality of means they were to use, their close association to terrorist/terrorist organizations under the guiding hand and funding of Pak establishment.

While all the above mentioned persons have played a huge role in furthering terror in Jammu and Kashmir, one of the most notorious among them is Yasin Malik. The several documents on Malik seen by OneIndia suggest that the cases against him are not ordinary in nature. They range from acts of terror, causing unrest and also murder of Indian Air Force officials.

Malik's name also cropped in terror funding cases since 1995. In 2019, the Centre had banned his outfit, the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). Malik is also facing cases relating to the kidnapping of Rubaiya Saeed, daughter of then Union home minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, in 1989, and the killing of four IAF personnel in 1990.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) started the paperwork but haven't done much else on May 30, 2017 against separatist and secessionist leaders, including unknown members of the Hurriyat Conference, who have been acting in connivance with active holy warriors of proscribed terrorist organizations Hizbul Mujahideen, Dukhtaran-e-Millat, Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
(LeT) and other outfits and gangs.

The case was registered for raising, receiving and collecting funds through various illegal means, including hawala transactions, for funding separatist and terrorist activities in J&K and for causing disruption in the Valley by way of pelting stones on the security forces, burning schools, damaging public property and waging war against India, the probe agency said in the FIR.

Hafiz Saeed, the Pakistain-based chief of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
, the front for the banned LeT, has also been named as an accused in the FIR.

Yasin Malik and ten others were chargesheeted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) under the Terrorist and Disruptive Act. The CBI named Yasin Malik as the main accused in both these cases.

The JKLF is also responsible for illegal funnelling of funds for fomenting terrorism. The JKLF is actively involved in raising of funds and its distribution to Hurriyat cadres and stone-pelters to fuel unrest in Kashmir Valley as well as for subversive activities.

A total of 37 FIRs have been registered by the J&K Police against JKLF and two cases, including that of murder of IAF personnel, were registered by the CBI.

The organization was also involved in the kidnapping and killing of Ravindra Mhatre, an Indian diplomat posted the UK, in 1984. A week later, India executed Maqbool Bhat, a JKLF activist, who had been sentenced to death.
Related:
Yasin Malik: 2020-02-10 Police summoned two journalists in Srinagar for reporting strike call given by Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front
Yasin Malik: 2019-10-09 AJK premier urges JKLF protesters to call off march to LoC as 'purpose largely met'
Yasin Malik: 2019-10-08 JKLF asks AJK government to remove hurdles, let marchers cross LoC
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Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front: 2019-10-09 AJK premier urges JKLF protesters to call off march to LoC as 'purpose largely met'
Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front: 2019-10-08 JKLF asks AJK government to remove hurdles, let marchers cross LoC
Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front: 2019-09-10 22 arrested as pro-independence sit-in continues in Azad Kashmir
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India-Pakistan
Transportation of arms into J&K: NIA charges key accused
2021-12-08
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency filed a supplementary chargesheet against on Mohammad Nakeem Khan of Poonch district, Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
, following the recovery of arms and ammunition, explosive substances and heroin.

The probe revealed that these substances belonged to the terror group Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen
...one of Pakistan’s ISI’s catspaws in Kashmir, TuM was founded in 1990. By the end of the decade they were on their fourth emir, and subsequently their limited membership has mainly been visiting Paks with a few locals for local flavour. They’ve been seen in the Kashmir Valley in the Beeru belt of Budgam district, Ganderbal, and parts of Srinagar, Anantnag and Pulwama, and gotten funding from the Saudi Arabian Harmain Islamic Foundation — one of the financiers of 9/11, among other little projects — as well as the ISI and Lashkar-e-Taiba...
and its off-shoot Jammu Kashmir Ghaznavi Force (JKGF). The probe also revealed that the accused Nakeem along with the other accused and handlers or the terror group had facilitated the transportation of arms and ammunition along with explosives and narcotics from the Line of Control to the interior areas of Poonch.

The NIA had earlier charged 7 accused persons in connection with the same case. Further investigations are on, the NIA said in a note.
Related:
Poonch: 2021-12-05 LeT militant arrested in central Kashmir’s Budgam
Poonch: 2021-11-28 To fund terror, Pak pushing larger quantity of drugs: J&K Police
Poonch: 2021-11-27 Militant killed as infiltration attempt foiled in J&K’s Mendhar
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Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen: 2021-10-05 NIA charges 2 Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen terrorists in Poonch conspiracy case
Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen: 2021-06-26 NIA charges 7 terrorists of Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen in Poonch conspiracy case
Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen: 2008-12-13 United Jihad Council disappears
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Ghaznavi Force: 2021-01-01 3 Pak linked terror associates nabbed, terror plot to attack Temple averted
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India-Pakistan
NIA charges 2 Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen terrorists in Poonch conspiracy case
2021-10-05
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency has filed a supplementary chargesheet against two murderous Moslems of the Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen
...one of Pakistan’s ISI’s catspaws in Kashmir, TuM was founded in 1990. By the end of the decade they were on their fourth emir, and subsequently their limited membership has been mainly visiting Paks with a few locals for local flavour. They’ve been seen in the Kashmir Valley in the Beeru belt of Budgam district, Ganderbal, and parts of Srinagar, Anantnag and Pulwama, and gotten funding from the Saudi Arabian Harmain Islamic Foundation — one of the financiers of 9/11, among other little projects — as well as the ISI and Lashkar-e-Taiba...
in connection with a conspiracy case registered at Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
The NIA has charged Zafar Iqbal based in Pakistain and Shaid Naveed. The accused persons were part of a deep-rooted criminal conspiracy hatched by Pakistain based handlers of the terror group and their associates based in Poonch and Kuwait.

The NIA says that they were planning on executing terror attacks in a bid to wage war against the Indian state. The accused were tasked to smuggle arms, ammunitions, explosives and narcotics, the NIA said. During the course of the investigations a large cache of arms, ammunitions, explosives, narcotics, flags, posters and other incriminating material were seized.

The probe revealed that Iqbal had sent funds through Naveed who at that time was based in Kuwait.

These funds were then sent to Poonch to carry out the plan. Further investigation into the case continues.
Related:
Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen: 2021-06-26 NIA charges 7 terrorists of Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen in Poonch conspiracy case
Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen: 2008-12-13 United Jihad Council disappears
Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen: 2005-10-12 LeT, JeM, HuM, Hizb ul-Mujahideen, and Badr bases crippled by quake
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