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India-Pakistan

NIA raids at JeM militants, OGWs, separatists

2019-02-28

[Daily Excelsior] A day after the National Investigation Agency conducted raids at the houses of senior separatist leaders in Srinagar, the agency conducted raids at 11 locations in South Kashmire at the houses 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... holy warriors, the Over Ground Workers (OGWs) of the forces of Evil and separatist leaders. The NIA teams this morning conducted simultaneous searches at 11 locations in South Kashmire in the ongoing investigation into attack on CRPF convoy in Pulwama on February 14 and terror funding case. The raids were conduced besides others at the houses of Mudassir Ahmad Khan and Sajjad Bhat, both active forces of Evil of Jaish-e-Mohammad, and key accused persons in the Pulwama attack. Searches were also conducted in the houses of active OGWs of Jaish-e-Mohammad in Tral, Awantipora and Pulwama areas of South Kashmire. NIA has recovered incriminating materials including diaries containing coded writings. The NIA also conducted searches in the houses of three separatist leaders of South Kashmire including Mohammad Shaban Dar, Shawkat Maulvi and Yasmin Raja, in terror funding case (RC-10/2017/NIA/DLI) that was registered in 2017 and under which several separatist leaders were placed in durance vile Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! that year and they are in Tihar Jail. "Documents related to terror funding, coded messages and Jihadi literature have been seized. During searches, NIA teams also recovered lot of incriminating documents including property details, documents relating to financial and monetary transactions, electronic devices, mobile phones, sim cards", the NIA said. The NIA yesterday conducted raids at the premises belonging to top separatist leaders including Chairman of Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, JKLF chairman Yasin Malik ...chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region... , Shabbir Shah, President JKDFP, Chairman Tehrik-e-Hurriyat Mohammad Ashraf Khan commonly known as Ashraf Sehrai , General Secretary Hurriyat Conference Masarat Alam, Chairman JKSM Zaffar Akbar Bhat, and Naseem Geelani, son of Sayeed Ali Shah Geelani. In the meantime, Kashmire valley observed shut down today in protest against the NIA raids at the houses of separatists and crackdown on Jamat-e-Islami leaders and workers. The shops and business establishments were closed and traffic was off the roads. However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... some private vehicles were seen plying.

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India-Pakistan

Prominent Kashmiri leader killed in occupied territory

2018-11-21

[DAWN] Kashmiri leaders on Tuesday blamed the Indian authorities for killing a prominent leader in India-occupied Kashmire, as anti-India protests and festivities followed a shootout that killed four armed fighters and an army commando in the disputed region. Fighting began early Tuesday after police and soldiers cordoned off a village on a tip that Kashmiri fighters were hiding in a house, said Indian army front man Col Rajesh Kalia. He said the Kashmiri fighters ignored calls of surrender and fired at the soldiers and in the exchange the four were killed. Police said one soldier from India's special forces unit was killed and two soldiers injured in the fighting. Local residents said soldiers blasted the house with explosives. As news of the Kashmiri fighters' killing spread, hundreds of villagers seeking an end to Indian rule hit the streets to show solidarity with the fighters, sparking festivities with government forces. At least four women were maimed when troops fired bullets, shotgun pellets and tear gas to confront stone-throwing protesters. Gunmen sprayed gunfire toward Hafizullah Mir, a top political leader of Tehrik-e-Hurriyat, a group that challenges India's illusory sovereignty over Kashmire, at his home in the southern Achabal area. Mir went titzup while his wife was maimed in the attack, police and residents said. Kashmiri leaders have termed it an liquidation and blamed the Indian authorities for carrying out the atrocious attack on the local leader. Mir was released from jail last month following two years’ imprisonment in India. Tehrik-e-Hurriyat had said recently that Mir was receiving life threats over the telephone.

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India-Pakistan

Kashmir's Jamaat-e-Islami is beginning to undo its two decades-old hijacking by the jihadist agenda.

2008-02-21

BELOW the ice carpet in the Kashmir Valley, the first stirrings of the political life that will blossom this summer have begun. Last week, Sheikh Mohammad Hassan, chief of the Jammu and Kashmir Jamaat-e-Islami, the political formation that gave birth to the Hizb ul-Mujahideen, announced that his organisation would not participate in secessionist campaigns calling for a boycott of the Assembly elections scheduled for later this year. Hassan’s language was startling. “Elections,” he said, “do not have any impact on the status of the Kashmir issue. If people cast their votes in the elections, it does not mean that they have given up their freedom struggle or accepted India’s domination of Jammu and Kashmir. I am at variance with leaders and organisations who over-emphasise the election boycott campaign.” Among these leaders is the Islamist patriarch Syed Ali Shah Geelani, of whose hard line Tehrik-e-Hurriyat secessionist coalition the Jamaat is a part. Coming just days after the Pakistan-based United Jihad Council announced that it would not kill election participants — 69 activists were shot dead in 1996, and 99 in 2002 — the Jamaat declaration has been little reported, and even less understood. It could, however, prove critical to political life in the State.

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Afghanistan/South Asia

Geelani and Mir arrested in Srinagar

2004-08-21

Indian troops shot dead two suspected militants who the officials claimed had infiltrated into held Kashmir from the Pakistan-controlled zone on Friday. Meanwhile, police arrested 14 Kashmiri separatists, including two key leaders, to prevent them from attending a memorial service for a 'rebel commander' who was killed by the Indian forces a day earlier. "The two militants were killed in the Nowgam sector of (northern) Kupwara district in a gunbattle," an army spokesman said. He said the fighting erupted the moment the two were spotted near the line of control. Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who heads the Tehrik-e-Hurriyat-Jammu Kashmir party, was leaving his home in Srinagar to attend the service when he was stopped by the police, party member Shabir Ahmed told the Associated Press. Geelani and six of his party workers were placed under house arrest in Srinagar, he added. Another separatist leader, Javed Ahmed Mir, and six of his supporters were also arrested after they arrived in Anantnag, 60 kilometers south of Srinagar, to attend the service for commander Manzoor-ul-Islam, Mir's colleague Mohammed Tahir said. Mir is a leader with the Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front. India's Border Security Force said it had killed Manzoor, who belonged to the Jamiat-ul Mujahedeen, on Thursday.

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