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India-Pakistan
Abducted policemen killed in Kashmir
2008-04-07
SRINAGAR — Two policemen, who were abducted in Jammu & Kashmir on Thursday, was found murdered. They were killed by suspected rebels.

The policemen were seized by gunmen from a remote area in hilly district of Kupwara on Thursday, hours after police in capital Srinagar announced that they had captured chief spokesperson of frontline indigenous rebel outfit Hizb-ul-Mujahideen Abdul Khaliq Dar alias Junaid-ul-Islam and one of a string of top-ranking rebel leaders to have been arrested or killed in past two weeks.

Officials in Srinagar said that the policemen Tariq Ahmed and Nazir Ahmed working at a police station in Sogam deep inside northwestern Kupwara district, were waylaid on Thursday afternoon. Their corpses were yesterday found lying in woods in the Sogam neighbourhood, they added. "They have been killed by slitting their throats," a senior police official said. Local news agency reported that militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed had admitted to the killing.

Meanwhile, security across the state has been beefed up further ahead of a one-day strike called by separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani against what he alleges is inhuman treatment being meted out to Kashmiri political prisoners in jails. Various separatist outfits have endorsed the shutdown call for Saturday.
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India-Pakistan
India detains Kashmir rebel spokesman
2008-04-04
SRINAGAR, India - Police in Indian Kashmir said Thursday they had arrested the chief spokesman of Islamic militant group Hizbul Mujahedin in the summer capital of the disputed Himalayan region. “Junaid-ul-Islam>Junaid-ul-Islam target=_blank>Junaid-ul-Islam, the chief spokesman for Hizbul Mujahedin, was arrested from a hide-out in Srinagar in the early hours today,” said B. Srinivas, deputy inspector general of police. “He was active since 1990 and his arrest is a big success for police,” said Srinivas, adding the suspect had been pulled in on information provided by three recently arrested Hizbul members.

Islam’s real name was Abdul Khaliq Dar, police said, adding that he used two more alias names—Khalil-ur-Rehman and Fazal-ul-Rehman. “He was involved in planning (attacks) and was one of the top Hizbul leaders wanted by the police,” Srinivas said. “He was dealing with press and was part of Hizbul’s propaganda cell.”

Hizbul Mujahedin, which has been active in Indian Kashmir for two decades, is a hardline group fighting for the Indian part of the Himalayan region to be folded into Pakistan. The arrest deals a fresh blow to the pro-Pakistan group. On Tuesday, two of its top commanders were killed during a gun battle and four key members were arrested. Last month, Indian security forces said they shot dead three top Hizbul Mujahedin commanders and arrested a leading rebel allegedly involved in nearly 30 killings.
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India-Pakistan
Quit Kashmir within a week, Hizbul to migrants
2007-07-28
A militant group in Kashmir has told thousands of migrant labourers to leave within a week after two non-Kashmiri labourers were accused of raping and killing a teenage girl. Hizbul Mujahideen has not said what will happen to those labourers who remain behind. "The involvement of non-Kashmiris in criminal activities is increasing and they are also pushing Kashmiri youth to all kinds of social evils," Junaid-ul-Islam, a group spokesman, said in a statement late on Friday. "Quit Kashmir within a week." Another militant group, Jaish-e-Mohammad, echoed the demand.

Police arrested at least six people, including at least two non-Kashmiris, this week on charges of raping and killing a 14-year-old girl in north Kashmir. There are no official figures, but several thousand migrant labourers, masons and carpenters work in the state. "They attacked labourers in the past, I am scared and I am leaving now," Suresh Kumar, a labourer from Bihar said before boarding a bus in Srinagar.
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India-Pakistan
Hizb rejects peace talks
2006-09-20
Kashmir's largest militant group dismissed as meaningless an agreement to resume peace talks by the leaders of India and Pakistan, a news agency reported on Tuesday. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President General Pervez Musharraf at the weekend agreed to restart peace talks that have been stalled since July, when bombings in Mumbai killed more than 200 people. In a statement on Tuesday to a local news agency, Current News Service, the militant group Hizb-ul-Mujahideen said the message of the two leaders carried "nothing new for people of Kashmir". "The declaration uses old and traditional language and is meaningless for the people of Kashmir. Those who are clapping at the declaration are misleading the people," the news agency quoted Hezb spokesman Junaid-ul-Islam as saying. "The only declaration acceptable to the people of Kashmir is one which gives a timeframe for resolving the Kashmir issue," Islam said.
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Afghanistan/South Asia
Kashmir rebel groups reject call for truce
2005-08-14
SRINAGAR — Two Muslim militant groups in Indian Kashmir have rejected a call by the region’s top woman politician for a truce, saying their “jihad” would continue until the Indians kill them the region was wrested from India.

The Himalayan region’s top woman politician appealed to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday to help bring peace to the revolt-hit region by persuading Islamic militants to declare a ceasefire. “Encourage them to announce a ceasefire,” Mehbooba Mufti urged Musharraf. “People in Kashmir want peace, not violence.”

But the region’s most powerful group, Hizbul Mujahideen, said it would not agree to any ceasefire in the 16-year-old insurgency against New Delhi’s rule. “The jihad will continue until Kashmir is liberated from India,” Hizbul’s spokesman and Kashmir-based field commander Junaid-ul-Islam was quoted by a local news agency as saying late on Friday.
"A truce would be un-Islamic!"
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Afghanistan/South Asia
Hizb confirms death of 14 terrorists in Jammu-Kashmir raid
2005-05-05
Hizb confirms death of 14 militants in Bandipore

Hizbul Mujahideen today confirmed the death of fourteen of its militants in the 50-hour-long gunbattle at Lawaypora in Bandipore area of Baramulla district. Meanwhile, three more militants, three civilians and a soldier have died in different incidents of violence in Kashmir valley since last evening whereas four civilians have been left wounded in a grenade blast in Sopore town.

Hizbul Mujahideen spokesman Junaid-ul-Islam told the local newsagency KNS this evening over telephone that fourteen Kashmiri militants of his organisation got killed in Army's operation at Lawaypora in Bandipore area. He said that the slain militants included a number of "battalion commanders" and "company commanders" of the organisation. According to him, the militants were in a meeting when Army swooped on the village and a fierce gunbattle was triggered off. He said that Hizbul Mujahideen's "Chief Operational Commander" Gazi Misbah-ud-din paid rich tributes to the slain militants and called upon the Imams of mosques to pray for the 'martyrs' and observe May 6th as 'yaum-e-shuhada-e-Bandipora'.
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Terror Networks
Hizbul Mujahideen threatens to target National Conference
2002-04-09
  • Pakistan-based Hizbul Mujahideen has threatened to strike the ruling National Conference for its support to Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) in a rare joint session of Parliament last month. The National Conference's five MPs are part of the BJP-led government at the Centre. POTA gives police sweeping powers to arrest, interrogate and detain suspects for up to 90 days without trial and to intercept suspects' communication.

    "Hizb ul Mujahideen is contemplating some effective and decisive actions against the ruling National Conference for its alacrity in enacting POTA," the group's spokesman Junaid ul-Islam said. "For the people who know the art of becoming human bombs and killing themselves inside the camps of their enemies, this law is useless," Islam wrote in the Urdu-language weekly Chattan. "Instead, it will add to our dedication and commitment." Islam did not specify what action the terrorist group planned to take. "Up to date we have been restraining harsh measures against the National Conference, but now we have decided to take action," he wrote. "While many non-Muslim and non-BJP leaders have expressed reservations over the draconian law, Farooq Abdullah and his son were jubilant when the law was passed," Islam wrote. Farooq Abdullah's son Omar Abdullah is state Minister for External Affairs.
    Those "who know the art of becoming human bombs" are going to end up shoving Pakland right into the Afghanistan category. That'll be a messier, more costly war than Afghanistan, but wiping out the Unholy Alliance of the ISI and Qazi & Co. will do much to make the world a more peaceful place. A successful conclusion will also cut off the funding to crazed killers for hundreds of miles in every direction from Lahore.
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