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Masood Azhar	Masood Azhar	Harkatul Mujahideen	Afghanistan/South Asia			20040223
	Masood Azhar	Jaish-i-Muhammad	India-Pakistan			20030208
	Masood Azhar	Jaish-e-Muhammad	India-Pakistan			20031231
	Masood Azhar	Khuddam-ul Islam	India-Pakistan			20030725
	Masood Azhar	Tanzeem Al-Furqan	India-Pakistan			20030725
	Masood Azhar	Jaish e-Mohammad	India-Pakistan			20030515
	Masood Azhar	Binori madrassa	India-Pakistan			20031125
	Masood Azhar	Khuddam-ul-Islam	India-Pakistan			20031125
	Masood Azhar	Jaish-e-Mohammad	India-Pakistan			20031125
	Masood Azhar	Tehrik al-Furqan	India-Pakistan			20031031
	Masood Azhar	Harkatul Ansar	Afghanistan/South Asia			20040223
	Masood Azhar	Harkat al-Jihad al-Islami	India-Pakistan			20040223
	Masood Azhar	Jamia Banoria	Afghanistan/South Asia			20040223
	Masood Azhar	Jaish e-Muhammad	India-Pakistan			20040221
	Masood Azhar	Khudam-ul Islam	India-Pakistan			20031031
	Masood Azhar	Pyam-e-Islam	India-Pakistan			20031102
	Masood Azhar	Supreme Council of Global Jihad	Terror Networks			20030813
	Masood Azhar	Jamaat-ul-Furqaan	India-Pakistan			20030828
	Masood Azhar	Tehrik-e-Khuddam ul Islam	India-Pakistan			20040222
	Masood Azhar	Jaish-e-Mohammed	India-Pakistan			20020209
Maulana Masood Azhar	Maulana Masood Azhar	Jaish-e-Mohammad	India-Pakistan	Pakistani	At Large	20050731
	Maulana Masood Azhar	Jaish-e-Mohammed	India-Pakistan			20060818	Link
	Maulana Masood Azhar	Jaish-e-Muhamad	India-Pakistan			20060717	Link
	Maulana Masood Azhar	Jaish e-Mohammad	India-Pakistan			20020921

India-Pakistan

Dawood Malik, founder of Lashkar-e-Jabbar, gunned down in North Wazoo by unknown assailants

2023-10-25

[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....
] Another terrorist involved in anti-India activities Dawood Malik, considered a close aide of wanted terrorist Maulana Masood Azhar
<span class=Inverse>Masood Azhar</span>

...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included his release among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India...
, was rubbed out on Pakistain soil by unknown button men, reports said.

Unknown, you say? That most certainly wouldn’t be RAW then. Good to know.

According to reports in Pak media, Malik, termed a tribal elder, was rubbed out by unknown assailants in Pakistain's North Wazoo. Police said that it was a assassination carried out by unknown masked men in Mirali area of the North Waziristan tribal district on Friday morning.

Malik was targeted by masked men at a private clinic and the assailants managed to escape after the attack. Malik is said to be the founder of Lashkar-e-Jabbar and also a close aide of one of India's most wanted Lions of Islam Azhar.

The fresh incident raises questions of a war among the terrorist organizations that are functional in Pakistain. In last few weeks, several Lions of Islam wanted in India have been bumped off in Pakistain by unknown button men.

More unknown killers roaming in the wilds of Pakistan, you say? Very definitely not RAW, and probably not Mossad either, as they are currently occupied elsewhere.

On October 11, Shahid Latif, one of India's most wanted Lions of Islam and also a key conspirator in the 2016 Pathankot terror attack case was rubbed out by unknown button men in Pakistain's Sialkot. On October 1, Mufti Qaiser Farooq, a former member of 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 a close associate of 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....
, the criminal mastermind behind the 26/11 attacks, was also killed in Pakistain.

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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).

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NIA Raids Multiple Locations In South Kashmir In Terror Funding Case

2023-05-16

[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is carrying out raids at multiple locations in South Kashmir
Kashmir

#NIA conducts raids across J&K in Jamaat-e-Islami terror funding case https://t.co/T3SinNlgzZ
— Greater Kashmir (@GreaterKashmir) May 15, 2023

NIA investigations so far have revealed that Jamaat-e-Islami (J&K) members had been collecting funds domestically and from abroad through donations as well as for purported charitable purposes, such as promotion of education and health.

"The funds were, instead, being used for violent and secessionist activities in J&K. They were also being channelled to proscribed terrorist organisations, such as Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and others through well-organised networks of Jamaat-e-Islami cadres," said the NIA.

Further, as per the investigations, Jamaat-e-Islami was also engaged in motivating the impressionable youth of Kashmir and recruiting new members (Rukuns) in J&K for carrying out violent, disruptive, and secessionist activities.

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NIA Crackdown In Kashmir Continues: Properties Of JeM, Hizbul Terrorists Attached

2023-05-12

[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency (NIA) in a major operation has intensified its crackdown in Kashmir
Kashmir

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Man who provided ‘shelter’ to Poonch attackers for two months detained

2023-04-27

#Poonch attack: Man who provided 'shelter' to attackers for two months detained https://t.co/zbubKThNx3
— Greater Kashmir (@GreaterKashmir) April 26, 2023

As a first substantial breakthrough in the Poonch ambush probe, security forces zeroed-in on a man, who allegedly provided ’shelter’ and ’support’ to the bully boyz for at-least two months before they carried out April 20 attack that claimed the lives of five soldiers.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's knife out of his hand......
the search operation to track down the ultras entered the sixth day.

Sources told news agency—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....
News Observer (KNO), that following leads and cross checking the statements of 50 detainees in the case, forces zeroed-in on one Nasir, a local, for his involvement in sheltering and supporting the bully boyz for more than two months, before executing the ambush in Tota Gali, Bhata Dhurian in Bhimbir Gali Secto, Mender Poonch.

Army Commander Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi visited the twin border districts of Rajouri and Poonch and took stock of the ongoing operation, the officials said, adding he asked the troops to be relentless in their pursuit. This was Army commander’s second visit in the region in less than a week.

Five Army personnel were killed, and another was maimed after their vehicle was attacked by bully boyz in Poonch last Thursday.

A massive search and cordon operation was launched after the attack and it has now spread to 12 areas across the twin districts of Poonch and Rajouri.

Sources claimed that after sustained questioning and cross checking the statements a local, Nasir confessed his involvement and told Sherlocks that he sheltered the bully boyz at his house for more than two months and "provided them logistic and material support."

"Some of the detainees were let off after questioning," they said.

Special Forces are also engaged in the search operation, the sources said, adding the agencies are backed by drones, sniffer dogs and metal detectors.

A large spread of forest areas, deep gorges, natural caves and dense growths have been searched and the operation is now covering other places, they said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's knife out of his hand......
a balloon from across the border was noticed in Jhalas area of Poonch, they said.

Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi took stock of the search operation which entered its sixth day on Wednesday.

"He interacted with the troops deployed in remote areas and exhorted them to be innovative and relentless in their pursuit," the northern command tweeted.

This was the second visit of the army commander to the border districts within five days. Earlier on April 22, Lt Gen Dwivedi had visited the attack site at Bhata Dhurian, a notorious infiltration route for bully boyz from across the Line of Control because of its topography, dense forest cover and natural caves. Sources had earlier said seven to eight bully boyz spread in two groups are believed have engineered the attack.

According to initial investigation, the bully boyz reportedly hid themselves in a culvert on the road from where they launched the attack on the truck which was carrying fruits, vegetables and other items to Sangiote village from the Bhimber Gali camp for Iftar to be organised by the Rashtriya Rifles.

Over 50 bullet marks were spotted on the vehicle that shows intensity of the firing by terrorists, the sources said.

The troops involved in the operation are exercising utmost caution as the bully boyz may have planted improvised bombs (IEDs) in the densely forested area with deep gorges and caves, they added.

The slain soldiers were from a Rashtriya Rifles unit deployed for counter-terror operations.

Experts from various agencies including the National Security Guard (NSG) and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) have visited the site of the attack, the officials said.

They said a sniper is believed to have targeted the vehicle from the front before his associates showered bullets and lobbed grenades on the vehicle from opposite sides, apparently giving the troops no time to retaliate.

"The bully boyz used steel coated bullets that can penetrate an armoured shield," they said adding, "Before fleeing, the bully boyz stole the soldiers’ arms and ammunition."

Even as security forces continued with their cordon and search operations for the sixth day. People’s Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF), an offshoot of 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), has released some pictures on social sites claiming them to be from the site of the ambush at Tota Gali. In the posts on social sites, PAFF, which had earlier claimed the responsibility of the attack, has stated that some parts of the videos of the ’Operation’ will be released ’soon’

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Poonch: 30 being questioned, Lashkar-e Taiba dunnit, killer’s bullets were American left-behinds in Afghanistan

2023-04-25

Poonch terror attack: Around 30 people detained for questioning, hunt on for terrorists

[OneIndia] Around 30 people have been detained for questioning so far as security forces conducted a massive search operation to track down the holy warriors who ambushed an Army truck 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....
's Poonch killing five personnel last week, officials said on Sunday.

Necessary action is being taken against the holy warriors responsible for the deadly attack, the Army's Northern Commander Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi said during an interaction with the personnel who survived the ambush in the dense forest area of Bhata Dhurian on Thursday. A stretch of the Jammu-Poonch national highway which was closed following the ambush was reopened for vehicular traffic on Sunday.

In a tweet on its official handle, the Army's Northern Command shared Lt Gen Dwivedi's visit to the Command Hospital in Udhampur and interaction with the survivor. "Dwivedi interacted with the survivor...and assured that necessary action is underway," it tweeted along with two pictures of the soldier.

Five soldiers were killed and one was injured after the holy warriors attacked the lone Army truck, which was carrying eatables for iftar to a nearby village. The Army's northern commander visited the attack site on Saturday.

The Bhata Dhurian forest area has for long remained a preferred infiltration route for holy warriors from across the Line of Control because of its topography, dense forest cover and natural caves. Dwivedi reviewed the security in the border area and the ongoing combing operation to track down the terrorists.

"Among those rounded up are two couples from Degwar in Poonch -- Iqbal and his wife Mudifa and Salam Din and his wife Rashida," an official source said, adding further investigation was underway. The slain soldiers were from a Rashtriya Rifles unit deployed for counter-terror operations.

Sources earlier said the attack was suspected to have been carried out by a group of three to four terrorists. The attackers possibly spent more than a year in Rajouri and Poonch and had adequate knowledge of the terrain, they added. The Jammu and Kashmir Gaznavi Force (JKGF) is said to be active in the area and its "commander", Rafiq Ahmed alias Rafiq Nayi, hails from the region.

Currently, three-four terrorist groups are active in the region of Rajouri and Poonch, the sources said. The holy warriors who ambushed the Army truck used steel core bullets, capable of piercing an armoured shield, and decamped with the soldiers' weapons, officials said on Sunday.

They said a sniper is believed to have targeted the truck from the front before the other holy warriors sprayed bullets and lobbed grenades on it. Experts from various agencies, including the National Security Guard (NSG) and the National Investigation Agency (NIA), have visited the site of the attack over the past two days and have managed to get a clear picture of the bushwhack which was laid by the terrorists, the officials said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact...
members of the Gujjar and Bakarwal communities on Sunday visited an Army unit in the Akhnoor sector here to express their solidarity with the forces. Mohd Akram, who was leading the 113-member-strong community delegation, appealed to Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to provide free hand to the Army in tackling the threat of cross-border terrorism.

"We moved from Banihal tehsil in Ramban district to Akhnoor some 25 years back when militancy was at its peak and it was the Army which provided relief to us and ensured that we did not face any problem. We strongly condemn the attack on the troops and our community stands with our soldiers," Akram told news hounds. He said the holy warriors are working at the behest of Pakistain to disturb the peaceful atmosphere in Jammu and Kashmir and should be dealt with sternly.

"We request the defence minister to provide a free hand to the Army to tackle with terrorism," he said. A defence front man thanked the community for its concern and said the Gujjars and Bakkarwals are one of the most victimised communities of Pakistain's state-sponsored terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir since the early 90s.

"The community has suffered at length, frequently at the cost of precious lives and property at the hands of holy warriors supported from across the border. These valiant nomadic people have supported the Indian Army in counter insurgency and counter terrorism operations with great courage and conviction," the front man said.

Probe finds Lashkar carried out Poonch strike which killed 5 jawans

[OneIndia] Contrary to the claim made by the 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...
, investigations have found that the Lashkar-e-Tayiba was behind the Poonch attack in which five soldiers of the Indian Army were killed.

The security agencies are finding it hard to find the seven hard boyz of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba as they may have escaped through the dense forests. The attack site is 7 kilometres from the Bhimber Ghali at the Line of Control (LoC), which is a thickly forested belt on the Indian side of the LoC. Sources tell OneIndia that this was a well planned attack and the hard boyz were aware that post the hit, they would easily escape into the forest area.

The intent, the source said was to create panic and unrest ahead of the G20 meetings slated to be held in Jammu and Kashmir
Kashmir

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Five soldiers killed, another critically injured in Poonch terrorist attack, hunt continues

2023-04-21

[GreaterKashmir
Kashmir

Khaama Press adds:

According to sources, the Incident was carried out by the terror organization People’s Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF), which receives funding from Jaish, reported by India today.

Search operation continues in Rajouri, Poonch to hunt down terrorists
https://t.co/OI8vGu6bh1
— Greater Kashmir (@GreaterKashmir) April 21, 2023

7 terrorists may have carried out RPG attack on Indian Army soldiers in Poonch

[OneIndia] Seven terrorists were involved in the attack on the Indian Army soldiers, which took place in Poonch Jammu and Kashmir, the preliminary probe has shown.

Sources tell OneIndia that the terrorists had fired at the vehicle from all sides and had used rocket-propelled grenades. The investigation into the incident continues, while a massive search operation has been launched to nab the terrorists involved in the attack.

While a 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...
backed group has grabbed credit for the attack, Sherlocks are also not ruling out the possibility of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba being involved in the same. The source cited above said that the holy warriors may have escaped into the dense forests and hence the search operation is tougher.

Another official said that the holy warriors took advantage of the rainy conditions and poor visibility to carry out the attack.

The attack took place on a day when it was confirmed that Pakistain minister Bilawal Baby Bhutto Zardari
...Pak dynastic politician, son of Benazir Bhutto and grandon of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As far as is known, Bilawal has no particular talents other than being pretty and being able to memorize political slogans, but he had the good luck to be born into the right family and he hasn't been assassinated yet...
would be attending the G20 meet in India. This development also comes in the wake of Pakistain asking all G20 members, particularly to its all-weather friend China to boycott the event.

According to the Intelligence agencies, the attack was specifically planned and timed to create panic ahead of the G20 event. The terrorist group has done a thorough reconnaissance before staging the attack. The official cited above said that it is clear that this was planned to reign havoc in the Valley and disrupt India's plans of holding such a big summit. The aim of the Pakistain establishment was clear and that it wanted to instigate violence in Jammu and Kashmir
Kashmir

Another One India article adds:

"The 'People's Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF)' emerged in the year 2019 as a proxy outfit of Jaish-e-Mohammed, a proscribed terrorist organisation listed at serial number 6 of the First Schedule under the UAPA Act," the MHA notification reads. "The People's Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF) regularly issues threats to Indian security forces, political leaders, civilians working in Jammu and Kashmir from other states along with other organisations is involved in conspiring proactively, physically and in social media, to undertake violent terrorist acts in Jammu and Kashmir as well as other major cities in India is indulging in radicalisation," the MHA also said.

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NIA attaches property of TRF militant in Baramulla

2023-03-04

[Daily Excelsior] The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today attached a property belonging to a Pakistain-based krazed killer, Basit Ahmad Reshi, in Baramulla.

According to the NIA, Reshi has been designated as a "terrorist" under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. He has been funding militancy in the Kashmir
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‘Aman ki Asha’ proponents must ask Pakistan about persecution of Hindus, terror strikes in India

2023-02-26

[OneIndia] Aman ki Asha calls have been made many times. But why does the ball always have to be in the court of India. Has Pakistain shown any signs of change towards its attitude towards India?

Pakistain has been in the news due to several reasons. The country is facing its worst economic crisis and the future looks weak.

Amidst this, the 'Aman ki Asha' proponents have come out and said that India must help Pakistain at this time of crisis. Similar demands were made many years back when this particular brigade spoke about patching things up with Pakistain, despite the country shielding the criminal masterminds of the Mumbai 26/11 attacks in which over 160 innocents died.

The 'India must help Pakistain' is being made despite the Pulwama and Uri attacks in which several Indian braves bit the dust. While terror attacks are an ongoing affair, it must be noted that each one of them has had a Pakistain hand in it. The Indian Mujahideen
A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor...
was funded by Pakistain, the attacks on Parliament, the 2006 train bombings in Mumbai, Samjautha Express blast, just to name a few all had direct links to Pakistain.

Pakistain has allowed its soil to be used as a launch pad for terror attacks. Moreover it shields the likes of 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....
, Masood Azhar
...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included his release among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India...
among others. Whatever action Pakistain has taken against these monstrous Jihadis has only been token and has been a way of avoiding international pressure.

Terror attacks, infiltration, fake currency, terror funding are some of the ploys by Pakistain to keep India on the boil. The country operates with the sole agenda of trying to put India down. It has also been responsible for wars against India, all of which it lost.

The persecution:

Now coming to another issue that is boiling and continues to boil everyday. The persecution of the religious minorities, especially the Hindus in Pakistain. As we write this article, there could be a persecution on in Pakistain. Just last week, a minor Hindu girl was kidnapped, converted to Islam and marked off.

India has raised this concern on various occasions, but there has never been any solution to it.

Pakistain even had the audacity to reject a bill against forced religious conversions. In October 2021, the parliamentary committee had rejected this bill and then religious affairs minister, Noorul Haq Qadri had said that the atmosphere was not conducive to enact such a law. The minister had said that such a law could disturb peace and harmony in the country.

The violence against Hindus has been instituted in Pakistain. Description of Temples, rapes, forced conversions and cases of torture have been documented.

Every month, 25 Hindu girls are raped and converted to Islam according to the Pakistain Human Rights Council. Girls just vanish from their homes and are converted and then are forcibly married off.

In 2010, 60 members of the Hindu community in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
were attacked because one of them was drinking water near a Mosque.

At this rate of Islamist persecution, Hindus in Bangladesh may survive another 20 years onlyAt this rate of Islamist persecution, Hindus in Bangladesh may survive another 20 years only

In 2003, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistain said that 1,000 Hindu families from Pakistain had fled to India. In 2014 it was found that 5,000 Hindus are migrating to India every year. Pakistain has also successfully used its blasphemy

...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
laws to target the Hindus.

These are just few statistics to show the atrocities Pakistain as a state has meted out against the Hindus and other minorities in the country. The persecution coupled with terror attacks is what Pakistain has offered India over the past many years.

The question is should India help. The other question is will Pakistain change. The answer to both is one big 'NO.'

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NIA’s pan-India raid unearths deadly Khalistan-Gangster nexus

2023-02-25

[OneIndia] In the recent nationwide crackdown by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) at 76 locations across eight states, six associated of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi have been arrested.

The NIA also arrested associates of Goldy Brar and Jaggu Bhagwanpuria. The arrested persons include Lucky Kokar, an associate of Canada based terrorist, Arsh Dalla. The raids were carried out in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, NCR, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Kokar was nabbed from Rajasthan on Tuesday. The NIA learnt that he was in direct contact with Arsh Dalla in Canada. It was on the instructions of Dala that Kokar had carried out recent killings in Jagraon, Punjab.

The NIA said that Kokar was working for Dalla, who is notorious for smuggling arms, ammunitions, IEDs among others. The arms and ammunition were being smuggled into India to revive the Khalistan movement, the NIA has learnt.

These elements were also raising funds, recruiting youth and carrying out terror attacks on behalf of the Bishnoi gang, the NIA said.

The NIA had last year registered cases in this regard. Since the case has been registered four massive raids have been carried out by the agency.

It was also learnt that Pakistain's ISI was playing a crucial role in these incidents. The main aim of the ISI is to revive the Khalistan movement and hence was using the gangsters based abroad to carry out such incidents.

The ISI had even handpicked one Harvinder Singh Rinda, a gangster turned terrorist based in Pakistain to oversee this network.

During the raids, the NIA also arrested Hari Om alias Titu, Lakhvi Singh. Nine weapons were recovered from Lakhvir.

More such raids are on the anvil as the NIA is looking to completely dismantle this network. These raids are crucial as the Khalistan elements pose a huge threat to India. Their networks abroad are in particular worrisome and attempts are being made galore to revive the Khalistan movement.

The agencies had also learnt about the K2 or Khalistan-Kashmir
Kashmir

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Pak-backed Dr Asif Maqbool Dar who used social media to flare up terror designated as terrorist, JeM offshoot banned

2023-01-08

#Pak-backed, Dr Asif #Maqbool
Dar who used #social media to flare up terror, identify kill targets, designated as #terrorist https://t.co/Hi0fjc4PWx
— Greater Kashmir (@GreaterKashmir) January 8, 2023

A day after declaring The Resistance® Front (TRF) as a terrorist organization, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) banned the Peoples Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF), an offshoot of Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) for carrying out terror activities in 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....
"PAFF is a proxy outfit of Maulana Masood Azhar
...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included his release among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India...
-led JeM and was involved in terror acts and issuing threats to Indian security forces, politicians, civilians in J&K, and other states," MHA said in an notification issued here Saturday. The MHA said that the outfit had emerged in the year 2019 as a proxy outfit of JeM, a proscribed terror outfit listed at Serial No 6 of the First Schedule under the UAPA.

"It regularly issues threats to Indian security forces, politicians, civilians working in Jammu and Kashmir from other states and is involved, along with other organizations, in conspiring pro-actively physically and in social media to undertake ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful terrorist acts in J&K and other major cities in India," it said.

The MHA also declared Arbaz Ahmad Mir, a Lashkar-e-Tobia operative who is currently based in Pakistain, as an "individual terrorist" under the Fourth Schedule of UAPA.

According to the government, Mir was the main accused in the assassination of Rajni Bala, a school teacher in Kulgam in May last year.

The Union Home Ministry also declared Dr Asif Maqbool Dar, who is based in Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
, as a terrorist under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention Act)-1967, officials said.

In a notification, the MHA said that Dr Asif, a resident of Bandey Payeen, Wagoora, Baramulla, presently based at Daman, Ash Sharqiyah, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, is associated with Hizb-ul-Mujahideen.

"Dr Asif is involved in instigating or provoking the youth of Kashmir for terrorist activities by using social media platforms," reads the notification.

According to the MHA, Dr Asif is one of the leading radical voices on social media and is involved in nefariously influencing Kashmiri youth to take up arms against the Indian government and security forces.

It said that the Pakistain-backed, Saudi Arabia-based Dr Asif used social media to flare up terror and identify kill targets for the terrorists.

The MHA said that Dr Asif is accused in a case investigated by the National Investigating Agency (NIA) relating to a conspiracy hatched by the cadres of the terrorist organization to undertake ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful terrorist acts in J&K and major cities in India including New Delhi on the direction of handlers based across the border.

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Pakistan hopes to open infiltration routes by striking terror in J&K’s Rajouri

2023-01-03

[OneIndia] The forward defence locations along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir
Kashmir

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