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Syed Ali Shah Geelani

Hurriyat Conference

India-Pakistan

Kashmiri

At Large

20060610

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India-Pakistan

Senior separatist among 3 found involved in terror funding: SIA

2023-05-04

Senior separatist among 3
found involved in terror funding: SIA https://t.co/KQGEIw7Adl
— Greater Kashmir (@GreaterKashmir) May 4, 2023

The Special Investigation Agency (SIA) Kashmir
Kashmir

...an alliance of 30+ Moslem political, social and religious organizations formed on 9 March 1993 as a united political front to raise the cause of Moslem Kashmiri separatism that from founding has looked to Pakistan’s ISI for support. At the moment there are approximately three major factions. The (G) means the faction headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani...

and chairman of Shabba-ul-Muslameen, who had been found receiving and holding proceeds of terrorism in the shape of hefty amounts of currency, which had been recovered from his possession," he said. "The accused entered into a common criminal design along with two other absconding accused individuals to rejuvenate terrorism in J&K and disturb the peaceful environment. The trio has been found involved in incentivising prospective members to spread the tentacles of criminal plots in various districts of J&K to broaden the membership grid. The two absconding accused persons have been found hobnobbing with the ISI of Pakistain for having the patronage and logical support in carrying out terrorist activities in J&K. Besides raising funds they have been found instrumental in knitting anti-India propaganda outside India besides promoting disaffection among the peaceful public, particularly impressionable youth. The chargesheet has been produced in the Court of Special Judge, NIA Court Srinagar under the provisions of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967, as amended on May 3, 2023."

The SIA Kashmir front man said that the investigation of the case had been completed within six months.

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India-Pakistan

Nobody cares: Hurriyat protests ban on key Ramazan prayers in occupied Kashmir

2022-04-30

[Dawn] Kashmir
Kashmir

...an alliance of 26 political, social and religious organizations formed as a united political front to raise the cause of Kashmiri separatism. In other words, a willing tool of Pakistan...

on Thursday appealed to the Indian government to let Moslem worshippers offer the important last Friday prayers of Ramazan — Jummat ul Vida — at Srinagar’s central Jama Masjid as per tradition, but there was no sign of New Delhi yielding.

India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s watch has come under severe criticism for abuse of its religious minorities, which includes censure of its treatment of Kashmiri Moslems. Secular and democratic lobbies in the US have urged US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to accept the report of the alleged mistreatment of Moslems filed in the annual report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). The report for 2022 on religious freedoms and human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state...
the world over was released on Monday.

"Given the worsening human rights and religious freedom situation for minorities and the Modi government’s lack of actions, it is important that USCIRF’s recommendation to include India to be a "Country of Particular Concern" (CPC) be accepted by Sec. of State Blinken," American Moslem Institution said in an appeal.

The group said it applauded the decision of USCIRF to designate India as a CPC country, given that "religious freedom conditions in India significantly worsened in 2021." It said systemic intimidation and violence has moved from the real world and has substantially increased online by "both official and non-state actors...to spread hatred and misinformation."

Furthermore, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led "government, leaders emboldened Hindu-nationalist groups have advocated, instituted, and enforced sectarian policies seeking to establish India as an overtly Hindu state, contrary to India’s secular foundation and at grave danger to India’s religious minorities."

In Srinagar, APHC chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, denounced the repeated closure of Srinagar’s central Jama Masjid by the Indian government.

"Not allowing congregational prayers on the occasion of Jumatul Vida at the central Jama mosque of the valley, which is thronged by lakhs of valley Moslems on this blessed day — when offering prayers at Jama Masjid has greater blessings for the namazis, is outrageous, and against the fundamental human right to religious practice."

The Mirwaiz said in a statement that the same holds true for barring people from praying at Jama Masjid on the holy occasion of Lailatul Qadr. APHC said that such orders against Moslems and circulars being issued by authorities in valley school asking the staff members not to wear hijab, "in a place where Islam is the religion of the vast majority is deeply distressing, causing great angst and hurt to people and further deepening the conflict."

The statement said Mirwaiz asked the authorities to revoke the ban on prayers and allow Moslems across the valley access to central Jama Masjid on these very important and holy days of Ramzan."

APHC said that, people as in the past, will observe Jumatul Vida as ’Youm e Quds’ and Youm e Kashmir’ to stress "the urgent need for a peaceful resolution of the lingering Paleostinian issue and the Kashmir conflict and the human lives they consume."

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India-Pakistan

Pakistan exploiting religious fault lines in J&K to recruit, boost terror

2022-03-23

[Oneindia] In a change in its strategy in fomenting the three-decade-long cross-border terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir
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....
, Pakistain is again employing the tactics of brainwashing the local youth in the name of religion and exploiting the "religious fault lines", officials said here on Sunday, according to a report by news agency PTI.

The change in tactics should also be seen in the light of Pakistain's desperate attempt to get out of the grey list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), they said.

The terror movement, initiated by Pakistain's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence
...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir...
(ISI) under the garb of calls of 'Azadi' (freedom) and right to self-determination, has slowly and steadily transformed into a low-intensity conflict that stands on the pillars of "religion and radicalisation" today, the officials said.

From 2016, to get itself out of the FATF grey list, the ISI started creating multiple pseudo terror groups like The Resistance® Front (TRF), Kashmir Tigers (KT), The People's Anti-Fascist Force (PAFF) and Kashmir Janbaz Force (KJF), to name a few.

These groups are nothing but shadow groups of banned terror outfits 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) 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...
set up with the primary aim of creating a smoke screen to shield Pakistain from FATF sanctions and the secondary aim of re-strategising and giving terrorism in Kashmir an indigenous face.

"Pakistain is definitely changing its subversion narrative, giving it a religious tone not only to manipulate the minds of the youth in the Valley but also to exploit the religious fault lines that exist within India," an official said.

Having seen its failure in mobilising locals, especially after the death of veteran separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani in September last year, the ISI believes that religion holds the key to its next move in Kashmir.

"The neighbour has been and still remains the biggest menacing factor that has pulled back Kashmir and its people. Having vitiated and radicalised the Sufi soul of the Valley for the last three decades to meet its nefarious design, the masters of destruction across the border now believe that the time is ripe to infuse religious schism into the mix, and champion itself (Pakistain) as the saviour of religion," the official said.

Analysis of the recent intercepts and questioning of arrested Lions of Islam show that the ISI and others in Pakistain are desperate to polarise the local population in Jammu and Kashmir and generate dissent against the State in the name of religion, the officials said.

Carrying out a detailed analysis of last year's incidents of targeting of minorities in Kashmir, especially prominent chemist Makhan Lal Bindroo, the officials said that initially terror groups grabbed credit and labelled him as a government agent but the number of people who joined his funeral was an eye-opener as locals, despite the false claims, expressed their anger at his killing.

The officials said the changing contours of Pakistain's narrative in Kashmir are the outcome of the fact that its rhetoric of the right to self-determination has failed and the propaganda machinery being run from across the border has realised the futility of the call for "freedom movement and resistance against the so-called occupational forces".

Once the vanguard of the indigenous face of terrorism in Kashmir, Hizbul Mujahideen has fallen in the hierarchy of terror groups with its cadres dwindling drastically. As on January 1, the outfit only had 30-odd Lions of Islam operating in the Valley, primarily in Anantnag district in south Kashmir, and negligible presence in north and central Kashmir.

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Afghanistan

Taliban official meets son of 'lion of Panjshir' in Iran

2022-01-11

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Taliban
...Arabic for students...
’s foreign minister said Monday he held talks in Iran
Iran

...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
on the weekend with Ahmad Massoud, son of the late legendary Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, and guaranteed his security if he returned home.

If he believes promises from the follower of the Father of Lies, he’s a fool.

Massoud’s Panjshir Valley forces provided the last resistance in September to the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, weeks after government troops capitulated.

In a video posted Monday by state media on Twitter, Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said he also met Ismail Khan, a Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
province warlord who surrendered to the Taliban and left the country.

The Taliban had announced Muttaqi’s departure to Tehran for talks with Iranian officials but made no mention of any plans to meet exiled leaders.

"We met commander Ismail Khan and Ahmad Massoud, and other Afghans in Iran, and assured them that anyone can come to Afghanistan and live without any concerns," Muttaqi said in the video.

"It’s home to all, and we do not create insecurity or other problems for anyone. Everyone can come freely and live."

The Panjshir Valley is famed for being the site of resistance to Soviet forces in the 1980s and the Taliban in the late 1990s, during their first stint in power.

Its most revered figure is Ahmad Shah Massoud, known as the "Lion of Panjshir," who was assassinated in 2001 by al-Qaeda two days before the 9/11 attacks.

His son has since picked up the mantle, and there have been reports of him organizing a resistance with other exiled Afghan leaders.

The Massoud-led National Resistance® Front has repeatedly denounced the Taliban -- calling it an "illegitimate government" -- but does not appear to have made any physical attacks.

Afghanistan’s former president Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, ex-president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. When Biden abandoned the country left with a helicopter, four cars, and part of the national treasury...
fled the country with many brass hats as the Taliban closed in on Kabul, but several other prominent leaders remained -- including ex-head of state Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance...
The Taliban promised a general amnesty to all opponents and critics after taking over, but rights organizations say at least 100 people associated with the former regime have been killed since then.

See? Don’t trust ‘em.

A prominent Afghan university professor and open critic of the Taliban was arrested in Kabul on the weekend after repeatedly speaking out on television against the country’s new rulers.

The hardline Islamists have swiftly cracked down on dissent, forcefully dispersing women’s rights protests and briefly detaining several Afghan journalists.

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India-Pakistan

9 charged for selling fake Pakistan MBBS seats to Kashmiris

2022-01-01

[OneIndia] The Special Investigation Agency (SIA) of Jammu and Kashmir
Kashmir

...whatever those are...

in Pakistain to Kashmiri students and using the money to support and fund terrorism, officials said on Thursday, according to a PTI report.

The case was registered by the Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK), a branch of the police's CID, in July last year after receiving information through reliable sources that several unscrupulous people, including some separatists, were hand in glove with some educational consultancies and were "selling" Pakistain-based MBBS seats and seats in other professional courses in colleges and universities.

The CIK, which has been designated as the SIA now, filed its charge sheet before a court against Mohammad Akbar Bhat alias Zaffar Akbar Bhat, the chairman of Salvation Movement,

...it’s been a while since we heard that name...

a constituent of hardline Hurriyat Conference.

Others named in the chargesheet are Abdul Jabbar, Fatima Shah, Altaf Ahmad Bhat Qazi Yasir, Mohammad Abdullah Shah, Sabzar Ahmad Sheikh, Manzoor Ahmad Shah, Syed Khalid Geelani and Mohd Iqbal Mir of Mahaz Azadi Front.

During investigation, oral, documentary and technical evidence was collected and in analysis it surfaced that MBBS and other professional degrees-related seats were preferentially given to those students who were close family members or relatives of killed terrorists, they said.

Evidence also came on record to show that money had been put into channels that ended up supporting programmes and projects pertaining to terrorism and separatism, which included the unrest after the killing of Burhan Wani, the poster boy of banned 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...
terror group, in 2016.

The money was also used in failed efforts to disrupt peace after the abrogation of the erstwhile state's special status in August, 2019.

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India-Pakistan

Geelani's grandson among two employees dismissed from service by J&K govt under Article 311

2021-10-17

[GREATERKASHMIR] Jammu and Kashmir
Kashmir

Translation: the lad was caught supporting jihadi activity.

Pertinently, the J&K government in April constituted a Special Task Force (STF) to recommend the names of such employees involved in activities posing a threat to the security.

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India-Pakistan

There is change in strategy from across the border: IGP

2021-09-25

[GREATERKASHMIR] Inspector General of Police Kashmir
Kashmir

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India-Pakistan

Masarat Alam will remain a non-starter in J&K thanks to Centre’s zero tolerance towards separatism

2021-09-16

[OneIndia] Six days after the passing away of Syed Ali Shah Geelani, his protege, the notorious Masarat Alam was appointed his successor. Masarat Alam Bhat, who is in jail was appointed as the chairman of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference.

The APHC also appointed Shabir Ahmad Shah and Ghulam Ahmad Gulzar as vice chairmen. One of the key reasons behind appointed Alam as chairman is that he is a hardliner. He started off as a stone pelter and was later groomed by Geelani. He is said to have a good clout among the youth and could instigate violence in the Valley.

However the BJP led government in the Centre has a zero tolerance policy towards separatism and this has left these outfits redundant.

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Geelani safely underground

2021-09-03

[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Syed Ali Shah Geelani, the veteran separatist leader from Indian-administered Kashmir
Kashmir

Geelani, the icon of the disputed region’s resistance against New Delhi’s rule, died late on Wednesday. He was 92.

Geelani was buried in a quiet funeral organised by the authorities under harsh restrictions, his son Naseem Geelani said.

He added the family had planned the burial at the main deaders’ graveyard in Srinagar, the region’s main city, as per his will, but "they (police) snatched his body and forcibly buried him".

"We told the administration that we will bury him at 10am so that our relatives who live in far-off areas could attend," Naseem said.

"But they took the body forcefully at 3am and did not allow any of us to take part in the last prayers. They even argued with the women in the family who resisted taking away his body."

Naseem said it was only at 10am on Thursday that the family members were allowed to see Geelani’s grave.

The Press Trust of India news agency reported that officials buried Geelani’s body and disallowed any mass funeral in anticipation of anti-India protests.

Geelani, who died on Wednesday, had been unwell for some time, his family said

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Good Morning

2021-09-02

6,500 accused NYC felons go
scot-free as DAs decline to prosecute

Thursday September 2nd, 2021

Taliban confirm that the group%u2019s Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada will be top authority

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Shelter for orphans, unaccompanied children to be opened in Syria's Raqqa		4 arrested for grenade attack on Kreeri Sarpanch
Senior Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani is no more		Explosions during Tuesday night's rioting at the Gaza border
Central Committee in Syria's Daraa publishes terms of agreement		Russia, Syrian government bomb Turkish-backed factions in Syria's northwest

Woman dumped backpack with suspected human remains

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India-Pakistan

Senior Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani is no more

2021-09-02

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Senior Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah #Geelani is no more
https://t.co/IaMbsXN9eG
— Greater Kashmir (@GreaterKashmir) September 1, 2021

Senior separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani passed away after a long illness in Srinagar on Wednesday night, reports said.

He was 92.

Reports said that Geelani breathed his last around 10:30 pm at his residence in Hyderpora in uptown Srinagar.

Geelani, who was suffering from multiple ailments, had been keeping unwell for the past many years.

Quoting sources, news agency KNO reported that Geelani developed serious complications on Wednesday afternoon. "He had chest congestion and breathing problems. He passed away at 10:30 PM," the report quoted the sources as having said.

Following Geelani's death, Inspector General of Police, Kashmir
Kashmir

One India adds:

Authorities imposed a security clampdown in Kashmir late Wednesday after the death of separatist icon Syed Ali Geelani at the age of 92.

Troops put up barbed wire and barricades on roads leading to Geelani's house in the main city of Srinagar after the family announced the death, news agency PTI reported.

Announcements were made from loudspeakers of the main mosque near Geelani's residence asking people to march towards the house.

But police said no one in the Kashmir valley would be allowed to leave their homes. Thousands of security forces were immediately deployed and mobile internet services were cut across the area.

Scores of armoured vehicles and trucks patrolled main roads in Srinagar.

Another One India writes about Mr. Geelani:

The hardliner Islamist leader had resigned from politics and Hurriyat in 2020. His exit comes after he had headed it for 17 years.

Several Kashmiri political leaders have blamed Geelani for the rise in militancy and bloodshed in Kashmir. The Hurriyat leader has called for numerous general strikes or shutdowns, in response to the deaths of unnamed suspected militants, local militants and death of civilians in Kashmir.

Reportedly, Geelani calls Islamist leader and founder of the Jamaat-e-Islami, Abul A'la Maududi as his mentor.

Syed Ali Geelani was born in a town Sopore Baramulla, North Kashmir, on 29 September 1929, was viewed as a key separatist leader in Kashmir.

He was previously a member of Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir but later on founded Tehreek-e-Hurriyat. He has served as the chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, a conglomerate of pro separatist parties in Jammu and Kashmir. He was an MLA from the Sopore constituency of Jammu and Kashmir in 1972, 1977 and in 1987.

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India-Pakistan

Separatist leader urges resistance to India's Kashmir move

2019-08-26

[Al Jazeera] Syed Ali Shah Geelani, a prominent separatist leader in Indian-administered Kashmir
Kashmir

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