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Al-Badr terrorist killed in Kulgam encounter: police

2023-06-28

Terrorist killed in #Kulgam encounter: police https://t.co/ggb4InnVqM
— Greater Kashmir (@GreaterKashmir) June 27, 2023

[GreaterKashmir
Kashmir

...before 9/11 Al Badr trained with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s Hizb-e-lslami (HIG) in Afghanistan, and their Big Turbans have always been resident in Pakistan, but their brief was always to bring Indian Kashmir under Pakistani rule as a step toward conquering the rest of India. They are estimated to number about 200, half foreign...

was rubbed out by police and security forces during a shootout in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Tuesday, police said. A policeman was also maimed in the firefight.

"Acting on a specific input regarding the presence of a terrorist in village Hawoora area of Kulgam, a joint cordon and search operation was launched by J&K Police, Army (1st RR) and CRPF (18 Bn) in the said area," said a police front man, in a statement.

"During the search operation, as the joint search party approached towards the suspected spot, the hiding terrorist fired indiscriminately upon the joint search party, in which one J&K police personnel got injured who was subsequently shifted to hospital for treatment. The hiding terrorist was also given an opportunity to surrender, however he kept on firing on the joint forces. The fire was effectively retaliated, leading to an encounter."

In the ensuing encounter, a local terrorist linked with proscribed terrorist outfit al-Badr was killed and his body was retrieved from the site of encounter. He has been identified as Adil Majeed Lone son of Abdul Majeed Lone resident of Akbarabad Hawoora, Kulgam, said the front man.

"Incriminating materials, arms & ammunition including 01 Pistol with live ammunition and a Grenade were recovered from the site of encounter. All the recovered materials have been taken into case records for further investigation."

A case under relevant sections of law has been registered and further investigation is in progress. "People are requested to cooperate with Police till the area at encounter site is completely sanitized and cleared of all the kabooms, if any," added the front man.

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Afghanistan

Daily Evacuation Brief March 10, 2023

2023-03-10

[AfghanDigest] LAST 24 HOURS

BALKH GOVERNOR KILLED IN SUICIDE BOMBING – Initial reports indicate that the Provincial Governor, Mohammad Dawood Muzammil was killed when a suicide bomber gained access to his second-floor office and detonated an explosive vest. Another unidentified man was killed and 7 others are said to have been wounded in the brazen attack. Taliban Police and the spokesman were puzzled about how the bomber could have gotten to the Governor’s office without being stopped. Several hours after the attack, ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the attack on their official website. However, secondary reports say that it was not a suicide bomber but rather, someone from a Resistance group had successfully smuggled an explosive device into the building and placed it near a meeting room. It is not clear what actually transpired. The Governor’s death is believed to be the highest-ranking Taliban leader killed since the Taliban came to power. He was also said to be a personal favorite of the Supreme Leader. Taliban officials announced an investigation had begun. The attack comes after a Taliban security operation in Mazar-i-Sharif resulted in the deaths of 8 unidentified men.

MORE HAZARAS FORCED FROM THEIR HOMES IN SAR-E-PUL – A Hazara community in the Al Badr District was reputedly forced to leave their homes on Monday and Tuesday. The District is one of those newly created in the past two months. The evictions were said to have been orchestrated after a claim against the land the Hazaras were living on had been made by a Pashtun man. In addition to the forced evictions, a Taliban court has ordered the former landowners to pay a 36 million afghani fine to the man.

CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS CALL FOR THE RELEASE OF ACTIVISTS WHO WERE ARRESTED FOR PROTESTING ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY – While it is not clear how many women activists have been arrested, a prominent gender rights campaigner in Ghor, Habiba Sharifi, and her father were arrested at their home after protesting outside of the Provincial Governor’s office on Wednesday.

UN LAUNCHES NEW $4.6 BILLION DOLLAR APPEAL FOR AFGHANISTAN – Notwithstanding the recent threat by the head of UNAMA to cut funding to the country, the United Nations issued a call for donor states to pledge more money in anticipation of severe financial and food security issues on the horizon.

CONFLICT TRACKER
Balkh: An unidentified suicide bomber gained entry to the provincial governor’s office and killed the governor and one other other provincial official while 7 others were reportedly wounded. Late in the day ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the attack, but so had a Resistance faction.

NEXT 24 HOURS

BALKH PROVINCE SECURITY SWEEPS EXPECTED – In response to the bomb attack at the Provincial Government office, Taliban security forces are planning a major security operation in Mazar-i-Sharif that is expected to take three days. A source said that no information had been received about potential terror or Resistance safe houses, but that Police leaders had developed a search plan to cover the entirety of the city. At-risk Afghans living in Mazar-i-Sharif should expect home/apartment searches over the coming days and security around all Taliban facilities will be increased.

POSSIBLE PTI RESPONSE TO NEW CHARGES AGAINST KHAN IN PAKISTAN – While the former Prime Minister did not appear in court again on Thursday, the government levied additional charges against him under the anti-terrorism act. Some social media sites affiliated with the PM’s party have called for renewed protests. While the recent protests took place in Lahore, party acolytes are now asking for protests in Islamabad, Peshawar, Quetta, and Karachi. If protests occur, they are expected to turn violent and the police seem to be in no mood for sparing the rod. There are rumors that some among the PTI faithful have called for the burning of all police stations in Lahore as a sign of protest and to honor the only fatality from the clashes, Ali Bilal. At-risk Afghans sheltering in Pakistan should take care to avoid any protests or large police congregations while the threat of clashes remains. In addition, at-risk Afghans in Peshawar should remain cognizant of the recent directive by the counter-terrorism department about an imminent large-scale attack by the TTP directed specifically against the police.

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India-Pakistan

Year 2022: Mixed bag for J&K with terror, infiltrations down, but psy-ops, targeted killings rising

2022-12-18

[OneIndia] The security situation 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....
has been a mixed one in 2022. The Armed Forces have had plenty of success when it comes to gunning down terrorists.

While the forces had plenty of success on the ground, the year also witnessed the rise in psychological warfare in terms of terror groups circulating hi-lists. The Valley has also seen a spate of assassinations this year.

56 FOREIGN HOLY WARRIORS KILLED:
Director General of Police, Dilbag Singh told news hounds this week that in the year 2022, 56 holy warriors had been killed by the security forces. He also said that 86 of the 102 local youth who had joined the terrorist ranks too had been killed.

Singh also said that with 86 new holy warriors from the Valley being killed, the number of such elements has come down to 23.

"Those who choose the path of terrorism, their life is not too long. Youths should take the path of peace and prosperity and leave the path of terrorism. There is no benefit in going towards this path," Singh also said.

PSY-OPS:
The year 2022 saw the birth of a new blog called the Kashmir Fight run by the The Resistence Front which is a derivative of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba. Through this blog, the The Resistence Front put out hit-lists.

These hit-lists had the names of pro-India journalists, police personnel and officials. Recently the The Resistence Front circulated two lists comprising the names of Kashmiri Pandit government officials.

This has caused panic in the Valley, but the establishment has said that there is no cause for worry. The militancy is taking its last breath. Stern action is being taken against those involved in giving such threats. Such blogs and websites are under our watch. FIRs have been registered against them. Action is being taken against their supporters as well," Singh had said.

Investigations had found that this operation was planned by one Mukhtar Baba based out of ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
. He had got the names from a contact in Srinagar and it was learnt that the blog was being run from Pakistain.

It is a routine conspiracy of those who feel unhappy with peace and prosperity. We will finish all such remaining outfits involved in giving such threats," Dilbag Singh said.

TARGETED KILLINGS:
The assassinations of Kashmiri Pandits and non-Moslem migrant workers triggered panic in Jammu And Kashmir. Since January 2021 over 55 civilians have been killed by hybrid terrorists.

In October last year, seven non-combatants were killed in five days. Among them were a Kashmiri Pandit, a Sikh and two migrant Hindus.

In May, holy warriors had barged into the tehsildar's office in Budgam and rubbed out 36 year old Rahul Bhat, a Kashmiri Pandit who received a government job under a package for the community.

In October this year, a Kashmiri Pandit, Puran Krishan Bhat was killed in Shopian. In August Sunil Kumar was killed at an apple orchard and the attack was claimed by the Kashmir Freedom Fighters, an offshoot of the Al Badr. They said that Sunil Kumar and his brother Pintu Kumar who was injured in the firing had been encouraging people to take part in the Tiranga rallies in the run-up to the Independence Day celebrations.

INFILTRATIONS DOWN:
The annual 2021-2022 report of the Union Home Ministry said that 73 terrorist infiltration attempts were reported both through the International Border and Line of Control in 2021, which is the lowest in five years.

In the year 2017 the number of infiltration bids were 419 and in the following year it dropped to 328.

The report of the MHA also said that the Centre in tandem with union territory of Jammu And Kashmir has adopted a multi-pronged approach to counter infiltration.

The reduction in number of infiltrations and huge number of holy warriors being killed has led to a lot of frustration among these terror groups. This has resulted in the publishing of hit-lists and assassinations. Officials say that they are confident of ending this menace and the year 2023 will hopefully be a terror free year.

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Iraq

Deputy Secretary-General of Badr organization dies in car accident

2022-05-07

[Shafaq] A reliable medical source reported that the Deputy Secretary-General of Badr organization, Abu Mariam al-Ansari, passed away in a car accident on Friday.

The source told Shafaq News agency that al-Ansari's vehicle flipped in Ali al-Sharqi sub-district, killing him and two of his bodyguards.

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India-Pakistan

LeT's Sheikh Sajad, Al Badr member Arjumand Gulzar Dar designated as terrorists under UAPA

2022-04-21

[OneIndia] The Centre on Tuesday designated 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) member Sheikh Sajad alias Sajjad Gul and Al Badr member Arjumand Gulzar Dar alias Hamza Burhan as turbans for their involvement in a series of terror acts in Jammu and Kashmir
Kashmir

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India-Pakistan

NIA arrests two more in Kashmir in militancy case

2021-11-01

[GREATERKASHMIR] The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Saturday arrested two more persons from Srinagar and north Kashmir
Kashmir

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India-Pakistan

With Bhatkal module crackdown, NIA arrests 2 top ISIS terrorists

2021-08-09

A top ranking 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....
operative, was arrested along with another from Bhatkal, Karnataka. The two to be arrested are Jufri Jawhar Damudi and Ameen Zuhaib.

The arrests were carried out following a coordinated raid between the National Investigation Agency and Karnataka police.

Damudi was under the radar of the Central agencies since April 2020 for his active role in production and dissemination of ISIS propaganda monthly online magazine "Voice of Hind". Besides ISIS propaganda/media activity, he was also looking after logistical support including procurement of arms and explosives, funding for mujahideens and recruitment. He was in direct contact with Islamic State leaders in Khorasan (Afghanistan) and Syria.

He also instigated his cyber contacts to kill kufars (disbelievers), Police Personnel, Journalists etc and inflecting damage to temples and government properties.

On cyberspace, Abu Hajir Al Badri claimed to be based in Afghanistan/Pakistain and was taking all security precautions to evade his detection by Intelligence agencies. Despite his claim to be based in Khorasan/Pakistain on social media, it was assessed that 'Abu Hajir Al Badri' might be based in India and not Khorasan.

Based on this assessment and the leads developed through the revelations of Qasim Khurasani (arrested on July 11, 2021), further intelligence investigation by Indian central agencies in co-ordination with foreign agencies, the real identity of Abu Hajir Al Badri was established as Bhatkal-based Jufri Jawhar Damudi.

Thereafter, through deft fieldwork, the agencies managed to identify Jufri Jawhar Damudi (30 years) and one of his associates Ameen Zuhaib in Bhatkal. It was also established that Jufri Jawhar Damudi is younger brother of Adnan Hassan Damudi, who was arrested by NIA in 2017 in ISIS related cases.

Jufri Jawhar Damudi accepted his association with Afghanistan- Pakistain-based IS operatives and involvement in production and dissemination of IS propaganda magazine "Voice of Hind". During search by the teams of Central agencies, teams have recovered digital media devices and incriminating jihadi literature from the raided locations.

In the last one month, raids at 21 locations spread across Anantnag, Srinagar, Bandipore, Baramulla, Mangalore, Bangalore and Bhatkal resulted in 10 arrests from 3 separate modules of ISIS in India.

This Pan-India crackdown and back to back arrests of two prominent Islamic State (ISIS) operatives i.e Qasim Khurasani and Abu Hajir Al Badri is a major blow to Islamic State and these disruptions would degrade the ISIS network in India significantly.

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India-Pakistan

2 years after Pulwama attack, J&K Police recovers 7 kg IED at Jammu

2021-02-15

[OneIndia] The Jammu and Kashmir
Kashmir

...one of the many jihadi groups in Kashmir, it was separated from Hizb-ul-Mujahideen in 1998 by the ISI for what no doubt seemed good reasons at the time. Previously that decade it had fought alongside Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hizb-i-Islami in Afghanistan. It’s a member of the United Jihad Council, a confederation of Kashmiri jihadi groups, and is associated with Al Qaeda and Jamaat-e-Islami. Al Badr has been on US State Dept terror lists since 2005... unless Tanzeem means they’re an offshoot or another group altogether, in which case please ignore all of the above...

to plant IED here," he said.

"Sohail was given three-four target locations to place the IED, after which he was supposed to take a flight to Srinagar where an Over Ground Worker of Al Badr Tanzeem named Athar Shakeel Khan would have received him," he added.

Further elaborating on the attack, the cop said "a person named Qazi Waseem in Chandigarh was also aware of this matter, he has been held. We have also arrested a person named Abid Nabi."

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Bangladesh

Home Ministry listing razakars

2019-08-26

[Dhaka Tribune] The Home Ministry has started listing the name of the collaborators who received payment from the Pakistain government during the Liberation War in 1971.

The enlistment of collaborators, or razakars, follows the letter issued by the Liberation War Affairs Ministry earlier this year, said Shajahan Khan, chairman of the ministry’s Parliamentary Standing Committee.

The issue was revealed on Sunday during the Liberation War Affairs Ministry’s Parliamentary committee meeting.

Briefing the media after the meeting, Shajahan said: "Letters have been sent to the deputy commissioners (DCs).

"The DC has been told to prepare the rajakar’s list using their respective district’s archive and publish it in the gazette," he added.

Asked when the list would be prepared, he said: "It depends on the DCs."

Earlier in May, the House panel said a Demi-Official (DO) letter had been sent to the Home Ministry and deputy commissioners to archive the list of razakars, Al Badr, al-Shams and the anti-liberation forces.

The committee also recommended including those members in the list who were given the parliamentary seats of the elected Awami League leaders in 1970.

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India-Pakistan

Banned DeM operates freely in Kashmir

2017-06-10

[THENORTHLINES] SRINAGAR: Dukhtaran-e-Milat led by Asiya Andrabi figures among the 36 bully boy groups in the banned list, framed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). Despite being banned, the group is operating in the valley and also running the office.

The NIA last Saturday raided houses of several Hurriyat leaders in connection with a case of alleged funding received by separatist groups for carrying out subversive activities in the valley. However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
none from the separatist camp except the DeM figures in the banned list of 36 organizations by the NIA for carrying out "unlawful activities". In its official website, the NIA has put the DeM led by Asiya Andrabi under "Schedule I ‐ First Schedule (of the UA (P) Act, 1967) Terrorist Organisations".

According to the Act, "Any association can be declared unlawful if the central government is of the opinion that any association is, or has become an unlawful, it may by notification in the official gazette declare such association to be unlawful".

DeM is an all women outfit, was founded in 1987, and has been advocating to separate J&K from India.

It chief Asiya Andrabi was tossed in the calaboose
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
from her Soura residence on April 27, and booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA).

The grounds of PSA order prepared by the police call Asiya a "diehard secessionist" whose "endeavour is to secede the state of J&K from union of India and in order to achieve it she has indulged in anti-national activities and has played an important role in 2008 Amarnath agitation and also in 2010 and 2016 summer unrest by announcing programs/rallies with secessionist elements".

In the NIA’s banned list, there are some of the bully boy groups who have or are operating in the valley like Hizb-ul-Mujahideen/ Hizb-ul-Mujahideen Pir Panjal Regiment, 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...
/Tahrik-e-Furqan, Jammu and Kashmire Islamic Front, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen/Harkat-ul-Ansar/Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami and Lashkar-E-Taiba/Pasban-E-Ahle Hadis.

Besides that there are groups like Babbar Khalsa International, Khalistan Commando Force, Khalistan Zindabad Force, International Sikh Youth Federation, al-Umar-Mujahideen, United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) in Assam, People’s Liberation Army (PLA), United National Liberation Front (UNLF), People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK), Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP), Kanglei Yaol Kanba Lup (KYKL), Manipur People’s Liberation Front (MPLF), All Tripura Tiger Force, National Liberation Front of Tripura, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Students Islamic Movement of India, Deendar Anjuman, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) -People’s War, Maoist Communist Centre (MCC), Al Badr, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, al-Qaeda, Tamil Nadu Liberation Army (TNLA), Tamil National Retrieval Troops (TNRT), Akhil Bharat Nepali Ekta Samaj (ABNES), Communist Party of India (Maoist), 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...
, and Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) which too figures in the banned list.

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Arabia

2 Houthi leaders killed in special op

2016-01-24

Two leaders of the Houthi militia, namely, Abdullah Hussein Badr al Din Al Houthi and Al Badr Hamid al Din Al Houthi, were killed in a special operation conducted by the Arab Coalition in the Houthi stronghold of Saada this morning, Saudi TV announced this evening.

Coalition sources said its war planes launched a series of strikes on targets of the Houthi-Saleh militias at Al Nahdeen camp in South Yemeni capital of Sanaa.

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh Tycoon to be Executed for War Crimes

2014-11-03

[VOA News] A special tribunal in Bangladesh has handed down the death sentence to a big shot of the country's largest Islamist party for war crimes more than 40 years ago.

The war crimes court in Dhaka found Mir Quasem Ali guilty Sunday for crimes committed during the nation's independence war against Pakistain in 1971, when he was commander of the Al Badr militia forces.

The 62-year-old media tycoon is thought to be one of the top financiers of the Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
party.

He was found guilty on eight charges, including the abduction of a young man and his killing in a torture cell.

Ali's defense lawyer, Tanvir Ahmed Al-Amin, described the charges as "baseless and false" and vowed to appeal the verdict in the Supreme Court.

Bangladesh says local collaborators and Pak soldiers killed 3 million people, raped 200,000 women and displaced about 10 million to refugee camps in neighboring India during the country's independence struggle. Jamaat-e-Islami opposed independence.

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