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Properties of four terrorist handlers operating from Pakistan attached in Handwara: Police

2024-04-28

[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.... ] Jammu and Kashmir Police attached properties of four terrorist handlers in Handwara operating from Pakistain, a police spokesperson said. "Acting tough against the wanted local gunnies based in Pakistain, Jammu and Kashmir Police has launched a special drive against the absconders/ wanted gunnies and as part of this drive properties of 04 terrorist handlers who were declared as proclaimed offenders by the orders of Hon’ble Court was attached on the orders of Hon’ble Court, by Police District Handwara," reads a statement issued to news agency Kashmir Scroll. "These absconders/proclaimed offenders have exfiltrated to Pakistain or Pakistain Occupied Kashmir (PoK) in 1990s or in first after 2000 and are presntly in the Pakistain or PoK. Since then, they are continuously involved in handling gunnies and reviving and spreading terrorism in Handwara and other areas of Jammu and Kashmir." "Following the prescribed procedure (1)land measuring ten (10) Marlas at Kralgund belonging to proclaimed offender Mumtaz Ahmad Khwaja Son of Mohammad Subhan Khwaja resident of Kralgund,(2) land measuring 16-3/4 Marlas belonging to Lateef Ahmad Bhat Son of Abdul Rehman Bhat Resident of Badra Payeen,(3) land measuring 01 Kanal and 2 Marlas at Ashipora belonging to Mushtaq Ahmad Mir Son of Mohammad Sultan Mir Resident of Ashpora and(4) land measuring 01 Kanal at Khaipora belonging to Ghulam Nabi Ganai son of Ghulam Rasool Ganai resident of Khaipora, Qaziabad was attached by Police District Handwara on the orders of the Hon’ble Court," reads the statement. "These gunnies are also involved in different cases of Police District Handwara and are actively trying to revive and run the terror ecosystem in Jammu and Kashmir," reads the statement. "Besides these four, 51 persons of Jammu and Kashmir nationals who have exfiltrated to Pakistain/Pak Occupied Kashmir for illegal arms training and are operating from there have also been declared as Proclaimed offenders by the Hon’ble Court.The action is also being contemplated against them under law," the statement reads further.

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India-Pakistan

Suspect arrested in connection with horrific murder of 8-year-old in Karachi

2017-08-19

[DAWN] A Pakistain Steel Mills employee was placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! by police from Steel Town on Friday on charges of murdering an eight-year-old child. Police had found the body of a child, Mohammad Subhan, from a garbage dump behind a marriage hall near his home in Gulshan-e-Hadeed on Wednesday. Subhan had been reported missing since August 14. He had not returned after leaving home to attend an Independence Day celebration. Police later said the child's injuries suggested that he had been stabbed to death. "Steel Town police have arrested one suspect, identified as Tasawar Abbas," Senior Superintendent of Police Malir Rao Anwar said on Friday. Anwar added that the suspect had been picked up from a bachelors' hostel in the Steel Town area, where he lived. Anwar claimed that the knife used as the murder weapon, had been recovered by police, along with bloodstained clothes belonging to the suspect. A police official, who requested anonymity, told Dawn that the suspect was familiar with the victim's family and had once visited his home, claiming to be a friend of the dear departed's brother. Possible motive Anwar told Dawn that the suspect had taken the child with the intention of subjecting him to criminal assault; however, when the child resisted, the suspect initially throttled him and then stabbed him to death. The officer revealed that the arrested suspect kept visiting the spot where he had thrown the body for two days and it was him (the suspect, Abbas) who informed the family about the body of the child lying there. "He had also over-reacted during the funeral prayer of the victim: he was seen weeping," said SSP Anwar. The police officer said the suspect was detained when the Steel Town SHO saw a blood stain on his (the suspect’s) slippers. When he was grilled, the accused ’confessed’ to killing the child, Anwar said.

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India-Pakistan

Police busts militant module, 9 held

2017-02-19

[Daily Excelsior] Police today busted a Hizbul Mujahideen murderous Moslem module and tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... its nine members from North Kashmire district of Baramulla who were luring local boys into militancy. Deputy Inspector General of Police North Kashmire, Nitish Kumar, said that the module was busted with the arrest of a murderous Moslem Irshad Ahmad Shah of Seelu, Sopore in Baramulla district. He said that the module was spearheading a huge network of murderous Moslem activities and recruitment of local boys in Baramulla and Sopore. "The murderous Moslem Irshad Shah has been active with Hizbul-Mujahideen murderous Moslem outfit for last more than 2 years", he said. He said that Irshad Khawaja alias Tanveer along with two other absconders are involved in killing of one civilian Eid-ul-Amin Mir son of Abdul Ahad Mir of Maqboolabad Bahrampora and conspiracy was hatched in the house of one HM Over Ground Worker (OGW) Azhar Imtiyaz of Behrampora who stands arrested (case FIR No. 128/2016 dated: 25.12.2016). DIG said that with the arrest of Irshad, police, Army and CRPF in Sopore has been able to lay hands on network of over ground activists of outfit who were aiding and abetting militancy besides luring young boys towards militancy. "In a series of raids, Sopore police and security forces have arrested nine people who were influencing young and innocent boys to join militancy", he said. He identified the arrest people as Mudasir Ahmad Ganie?son of Ghulam-ud-Din Ganie of Ladoora, Abdul Majeed Dar son of Mohammad Munawar Ganie of Ladoora, Ajaz Ahmad Shah son of Mohammad Sultan of Bismillah Colony Shangergund Sopore, Azhar Imtiyaz son of Imtiyaz Ahmad Mir of Behrampora, Ghulam Mustafa Lone son of Mohammad Ashraf Lone of Thagund, Showkat Ahmad Mir son of Mohammad Zaffar Mir of Bomai, Aejaz Ahmad Bhat son of Mohammad Subhan Bhat of Bomai, Mohammad Yasin Tantray son of Ghulam Mohammad Tantray of Wadoora Payeen and Abdul Majid Shah son of Ghulam Ahmad Shah of Wadoora Payeen. Kumar said that Azhar Khan of Trich, Kupwara who got killed along with other associate in encounter on February 4 was radical ideologue of the outfit who with other killed murderous Moslem had gone to Pakistain on passport and received terrorist training there. "Both these forces of Evil were active in Sopore and Baramulla and with the help of this busted over ground superstructure were enticing young boys from Sopore and Baramulla for militancy", he said. The DIG said that based on the information which was generated during the course of these investigations some boys who were being recruited for murderous Moslem activities were counseled and handed over to their families thus saving their lives. Kumar appealed to the parents to watch over their children and not to let them to fall into the trap of murderous Moslem propaganda.

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Hunt intensifies for Indian Mujahideen's missing module

2008-10-01

Police and intelligence services know Shah Rukh is tall, fair, speaks good Hindi and isn't a movie star. But bar these next-to-useless facts, almost nothing is known about the man, who is thought to have run a secret Karnataka bomb factory, which supplied the disassembled improvised explosive device kits used by Indian Mujahideen (IM) terror cells nationwide. Ever since the September 19 encounter in New Delhi's Jamia Nagar area, which claimed the life of IM operatives Atif Amin and Mohammad Sajid, Shah Rukh has turned off his cellphone, and broken contact with other jihadists. Police believe he is a key player in efforts by IM operatives -- who have escaped a recent nationwide counter-terrorism sweep, including top organiser Mohammad Subhan Qureshi, mafioso-turned jihadist Riaz Batkal and Students Islamic Movement of India leader Qayamuddin Kapadia -- to stage a fresh series of bombings. Southern jihadist Shah Rukh, the Karnataka Police suspect, is a critical figure in a still-unidentified south India cell of the IM which, more likely than not, carried out the July 25 serial bombings in Bangalore. In a manifesto issued after the serial bombing of Jaipur this summer, the IM had said its north India operations were being carried out by the Mahmood Ghaznavi Brigade, named after the 11th century warlord who ruled over parts of present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and India. Based on the interrogation of IM suspects, investigators now say the Mahmood Ghaznavi Brigade was in fact the Delhi-based cell commanded by Amina group of Uttar Pradesh men entrusted with the operational execution of the terrorist network's bombings. However, the Jaipur manifesto also referred to the existence of a unit to attack southern India, the Shahabuddin Ghauri Brigade. It appears to have been named in memory of Muizzuddin Muhammad bin Sam -- the 10th century general of the Ghauri empire, who defeated Privthviraj Chauhan at Tarain in 1192 and laid the foundations for the establishment of the Delhi Sultanate. Last week, the Bangalore police held Mohammed Samee Bangewadi, a Bijapur-based engineering student, who is alleged to have been part of a jihadist cell which was planning to bomb western tourists Goa last winter. Bangewadi, Karnataka Police sources told The Hindu, had been under discreet surveillance ever since the arrest, last year, of the jihad cell's leader, Pakistan-trained Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Raziuddin Nasir. While media accounts have suggested Bangewadi participated in the Bangalore bombings, there is, in fact, little evidence so far to bear out the proposition. However, investigators suspect that the attacks involved some of the dozens of Karnataka and Kerala men thought to have trained at SIMI-organised jihad camps in 2007-08. Karnataka investigators have also been able to establish that IM strategist Qureshi visited and met with still-unidentified jihadists at Bijapur on July 12. Later, Qureshi is believed spoken to Bangewadi to discuss means to route funds meant for the legal defence of members of the Karnataka jihadi cell. Finding out who Qureshi met on his visit to Bijapur could help locate the missing southern module of the Indian Mujahideen. Much of what is known about the IM's bomb-factory -- which supplied the components for the near-identical improvised explosive devices used in Lucknow, Varanasi, Jaipur, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Surat and Delhi -- has come from the interrogation of Mohammad Saif, one of several Azamgarh men arrested from New Delhi after the Jamia Nagar encounter. Delhi Police investigators say that Saif, along with still-missing IM operative Shadab Malik, brought the disassembled components that were put together to make the 10 IEDs for use in Delhi -- curved metal plates, which were used to direct the explosive; detonators; timers; and ammonium nitrate power. Investigators found Saif had travelled on the New Delhi-Mangalore Mangala Express on August 26 to Mangalore, where he checked in at the New Broadway Hotel under the pseudonym Rahul Sharma. Soon after, they made three phone calls to Shah Rukh from public telephones, and finally arranged to meet at the Manipal University campus. Shah Rukh handed Saif and Shadab a bag with the IED components, which were then assembled under Amin's supervision in New Delhi. Identical tactics were used in Rajasthan and Gujarat, investigators say. Behind the door of the Dani Limba safehouse used by Amin in the weeks before the bombings, police found a detailed circuit diagram, which demonstrated just how the disassembled components were to be wired together.

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India-Pakistan

New leads emerge on SIMI terror plans

2008-04-02

Students Islamic Movement of India leaders conducted at least three secret combat camps last year, police investigating a group of top SIMI leaders held in Indore believe. New recruits were taught basic jungle-craft, elementary marksmanship with air-rifles and the principles of bomb-making, police sources told The Hindu. SIMI’s leading bomb-maker, Mumbai-based Mohammad Subhan — alleged to have been linked to the perpetrators of the 2003 Gateway of India terror strike — was the principal instructor at the camps. Investigators believe the first of these camps was held in the third week of April, 2007, near Hubli in Karnataka. The camp was organised by SIMI’s south India chief, Hafiz Husain, and Shibli Peedical Abdul, an Idukki-born computer engineer who is alleged to have links with the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror cell which carried out the 2006 serial bombings in Mumbai. Operating under the code-name ‘Adnan,’ Husain had overseen the large-scale expansion of SIMI’s operations in Karnataka. A resident of Bijapur’s Jamia Road area, Husain ran a network of religious front organisations through which SIMI drew much of its cadre. Abdul, who worked as a computer engineer with a multinational company in Bangalore, was among his key lieutenants. Several of their recruits are thought to have worked with Andhra Pradesh-based Lashkar operative Raziuddin Nasir in an abortive plot to stage bombings targeting western tourists in Goa. Among them was Yahya Kamakutty, a computer engineer drawn to SIMI through SARANI, a front organisation headed by Abdul. Nasir, Kamakutty and several other members of the cell were held in Bangalore last month. Police sources say similar training camps were held by SIMI at Mhow, Madhya Pradesh, in late October, 2007, and then near Kottayam, Kerala, in December, 2007. In each case, front organisations controlled by SIMI made arrangements for the camps, while cadre told their families they were travelling to retreats to further their religious education. Preparations Documents sized at SIMI’s Indore safe-house suggest the training camps could have been preparatory exercises for a programme of continued “selective violence” agreed on at closed-door discussions between top SIMI leaders after the Hubli camp. SIMI planned to contact fraternal organisations, including the Taliban, to seek further resources for its campaign. SIMI’s jihadist leadership also decided to resume publication of three jihadist magazines, Jihad: Fitr-e-Jamhooriyat [‘Jihad: The Commencement of Democracy’] and Aaiye, Jannat ki Sair Karaein [‘Welcome to the Journey Into Paradise’]. Publication of the magazines had been terminated by SIMI’s last president, Shahid Badr Falahi, in an effort to distance the organisation’s leadership from jihadists. At Hubli, SIMI’s leadership sought to outflank anti-jihad Islamists led by Falahi, by abolishing the central committee he controls. The leadership also forbade the organisation from participating in politics and, most important, abolished the age limit for membership — allowing pro-jihad leader Safdar Nagori to remain in the organisation. Nagori, secretary-general of the organisation at the time of its proscription in 2001, was among the 13 SIMI leaders held in Indore last week. Wanted by police in half a dozen States, including Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Delhi, Nagori — believed to be the principal architect of SIMI’s turning to the jihad — had evaded arrest since 2001.

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