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India-Pakistan
NIA attaches house, land of Hizb chief's two sons in Srinagar, Budgam
2023-04-25
[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....
] National Investigation Agency (NIA) has attached the properties of Hizb Chief 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....
’s two sons in Srinagar and Budgam districts.

"The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday attached two properties of the sons of designated terrorist Syed Mohammed Yusuf Shah @ Syed Salahudeen, the self-styled Supreme Commander of Hizb-Ul-Mujahideen (HM) and Chairman of United Jihad Council (UJC)," said an NIA front man, in a statement.

He said the immovable properties of Shahid Yusuf and Syed Ahmed Shakeel, located in Kashmir — in Soibugh Tehsil, Distt. Budgam and Nursing Garh, Mohalla Ram Bagh, have been attached under section 33(1) of UA( P) Act.

Both Shahid Yusuf and Syed Ahmed Shakeel are lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail since their arrest in October 2017 and August 2018. They were chargesheeted on 20th April 2018 and 20th November 2018, respectively. "The duo had been receiving funds from abroad from the associates of their father and overground workers of HM," read the statement.

"Syed Salahudeen, who had fled to Pakistain in 1993, was designated as an individual terrorist by India in October 2020. He continues to operate from Pakistain, from where he is guiding and instructing HUM cadres as well as self-proclaimed geniuss of UJC, also known as Muttahida Jihad Council (MJC) which is a conglomerate of around 13 Pakistain-based Kashmir centric terror outfits," said the statement.

"Besides instigating and operationalising murderous Moslem activities in India, primarily in Kashmir valley, Syed Salahudeen has been raising funds and routing finances to India through trade routes, Hawala channels, and international money transfer channels for furthering the terrorist activities of HM cadres."

"The NIA launched investigations in November 2011 into the criminal conspiracy to raise/collect/provide funds to commit terrorist acts and distribute funds among the terror groups and their sympathizers in Jammu and Kashmir for the purpose of committing terrorist acts. The Special Cell of Delhi Police had initially started the paperwork but haven't done much else in January 2011 and the case was subsequently taken over by NIA. Chargesheets as well as Supplementary Chargesheets were filed against eight accused in the case, including in 2011 and 2018."

"NIA has been cracking down on terror funding machinery in a bid to dismantle the terrorist financing ecosystem operating in Jammu and Kashmir with the help of individuals based in Pakistain and other countries. On Monday itself, the agency had also seized six shops in Awantipora in a case relating to a 2018 attack on CRPF Group Centre at Lethpora, J&K. Some land, including a house, belonging to the father of one of the accused was also attached in the same case in September 2020. In 2021, NIA had attached residential properties belonging to the kin of two accused in the case of the terrorist attack on CRPF Convoy at Lethpora, Pulwama. Another residential property has also been attached by NIA in the case relating to the killing of two brothers (Anil Parihar and Ajit Parihar)."
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India-Pakistan
Lashkar-e-Taiba Commander Abdul Wahid Kashmiri Surfaces for First Time in a Decade
2010-04-01
On March 23, 2010, Pakistan-based jihadist organizations organized a conference in the town of Kotli in Pakistani Kashmir. The conference was addressed by, among others, two prominent jihadist commanders - Syed Salahuddin and Abdul Wahid Kashmiri. Salahuddin is the Supreme Commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, one of the militant organizations fighting against Indian security forces in the Jammu & Kashmir state, and also heads the Muttahida Jihad Council, a network of nearly two dozen Pakistan-based militant organizations.

The Kotli meeting, which was billed as the "Defence of Pakistan Conference" and held on the Pakistan Day of March 23, was attended by hundreds of people and addressed by leaders of various jihadist organizations. Among the militant leaders who addressed the public meeting were Shaikh Jamilur Rehman of the militant organization Tehreekul Mujahideen, Bakht Zameen of Al-Badar Mujahideen, Maulana Farooq Kashmiri of Harkatul Mujahideen, Masood Sarfraz of Hizb-e-Islami (Jammu & Kashmir), General Abdullah of Jamiatul Mujahideen, Mufti Mohammad Asghar of Jaish-e-Mohammad, Mohammad Usman of Muslim Janbaz Force, Chaudhry Kamran of Al-Jihad Force, Ghulam Mohammad Safi, Mahmood Ahmed Saghar and Rana Iftikhar Ahmed, and others.

It should be noted that Pakistani Kashmir, formally called Azad (free) Jammu & Kashmir, is an area heavily fortified by the Pakistani military. Most of the mainstream Pakistani newspapers did not publish reports about the conference, as they normally refrain from doing so due to fears of the displeasure of the military-led establishment in Pakistan. The conference took place while Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani and Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, a;ong with a number of Pakistani officials, were in the U.S. for the March 24 Pakistan-U.S. Strategic Dialogue.
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India-Pakistan
Hizbul Mujahideen chief attends JI moot in Karachi
2008-03-31
Martyrs are crown of the Umaah and they restricted Russians in Afghanistan otherwise Pakistan was endangered; the movement for independence in Kashmir will be continued even though Musharraf has taken a U-turn, said supreme commander of the Muttahida Jihad Council wo Hizbul Mujahidin (HM), Syed Salahuddin, in “An Evening with the heirs of Martyrs” organized by the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi at Idara-e-Noor Haq (INH) Sunday.

“Today America, United Kingdom and Israel want to destroy Jihad and Muslim rulers support them but Jihad will be continued,” said the Deputy Commander of the HM, Maulana Javed Qasoori, according to a press release issued by the INH. The program was also addressed by the general secretary of JI Pakistan, Syed Munawer Hasan, JI Pakistan Niab Amir Hafiz Muhammad Idrees and others. JI Balochistan Amir Maulana Abdul Haq Hashmi, JI Karachi general secretary Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman, former MPA Nasarullah Khan Shajji and leaders of the HM were present. The relatives of the people who died also attended the program and were given shields.
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India-Pakistan
MJC backs idea of independent Kashmir
2006-01-14
The Muttahida Jihad Council (MJC) has decided to support the idea of an independent Kashmir and demilitarisation of the state. “A consensus has been evolved among the MJC leaders not to oppose the idea of an independent Kashmir and its demilitarisation,” sources in MJC informed Daily Times.

The sources said that many MJC leaders were of the view that an independent Kashmir was the most viable solution to the dispute if it could not be resolved according to the UN Security Council resolutions. The sources said this was a major shift in the MJC stance because earlier the council had always supported the solution of Kashmir issue in accordance with the UN resolutions. “The MJC leadership thinks that people in Held Kashmir consider freedom to be liberation form Indian occupation,” the head of a militant organisation of the MJC told Daily Times. Any solution that eliminates Indian interference in Kashmir will be acceptable, he added. “The UN resolutions on Kashmir have become irrelevant because Pakistani and some Kashmiri leaders have come up with new ideas to resolve the issue,” he said.
I guess this is their backup position, since India won't simply leave and let Pakland administer the place. An "independent" Kashmir could then be subverted and turned into something much like Bangla.
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Afghanistan/South Asia
11 jihadi groups banned from making public statements
2004-11-10
"You kidz are just gonna hafta seethe in private, y'hear? And don't make us come in there!"
The government has banned 11 jihadi groups that were active in Kashmir from holding public gatherings and issuing public statements, Daily Times learnt on Thursday. The government has directed the Muttahida Mahaaz Council (MMC), an alliance of the 11 groups, not to attend or hold public gatherings, meetings, rallies or congregations.
I wonder if that's the new name of the Muttahida Jihad Council?
They have also been restrained from issuing statements on the Kashmir issue. A source said that the government took exception to certain "lunatic irresponsible statements" made by the leaders of the jihadi groups that had embarrassed it internationally. The MMC consists of Hizbul Mujahideen, Hizbullah, Jamiatul Mujahideen, Muslim Janbaz Force, Hizbul Momenin, Al Fatah, Al Umer, Tehreekul Mujahiden, Tehreekul Jihad, Al Jihad and Al Barq. Three other jihadi groups active in Kashmir — the Jamaatud Dawa, Jaish-e-Muhammad and Al Badar - have not joined the MMC. After the government's orders, the MMC adopted a resolution that no jihadi group would hold gatherings. Because of the resolution adopted by the MCC, the chief of Hizbul Mujahiden, Syed Salahuddin, did not attend the Jamaat-e-Islami annual congregation at Azakhel Park, Nowshshra, in the first week of October, the source said. Another source said that the intelligence agencies had been monitoring the activities of Syed Salahuddin, Javed of Hizbullah, Abdullah of Jamiatul Mujahideen, Muhammad Usman of Muslim Janbaz Force, Usman Rizvi of Hizbul Momenin, Mumtaz of Al Fatah, Mushtaq Zarger of Al Umer, Jamilur Rahman of Tehreekul Mujahideen and Muhammad Tariq of Tehreekul Jihad.
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Afghanistan/South Asia
JKLF leaves Jihad Council
2004-04-22
The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (Yasin Malik Group) has parted from the Muttahida Jihad Council (MJC), accusing council chairman Syed Salahuddin of preparing to announce an unconditional ceasefire in the disputed state. Sources in the JKLF-Y said that the differences with the MJC chairman began when the jihadi alliance was restructured late last year. “The JKLF-Y were asked to join the Kashmir Resistance Forum and not use its original name in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir,” the sources said. “But the JKLF refused the offer and insisted on its original identification in the MJC.”

JKLF leaders wrote to Mr Salahuddin in February, objecting to the restructuring of the alliance and its policies, especially regarding the ceasefire. “The JKLF is not against a ceasefire, but an unconditional ceasefire is unacceptable,” a JKLF leader told Daily Times. “Our stance is that a ceasefire would not be beneficial until Kashmiris get assurances that they will be a party to any possible solution to the dispute. The MJC head is under pressure to announce an unconditional ceasefire. We cannot be part of a council that wants to close the independence movement in exchange for nothing. The MJC has become a puppet of the agencies and the agencies wants to crush the freedom struggle.”

However, sources inside the MJC said that the JKLF had told the MJC that if it succeeded in getting a ceasefire from the Indian forces in Kashmir, it would support the MJC ceasefire decision. The JKLF-Y also recently left the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (Ansari group), complaining that it had failed to put the Kashmiri point of view to the Indian government.
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Jihad council calls for polls boycott
2004-03-03
Kashmir’s main militant alliance, United Jihad Council (UJC) chairman Syed Salahudin, on Tuesday called on Kashmiris to boycott upcoming Indian parliamentary elections. “History won’t forget or forgive those who yield to force or greed and participate in the elections,” he said. Mr Salahudin is also the supreme commander of dominant militant group Hizbul Mujahideen, which is among a dozen militant groups that form the UJC. Asserting that elections under Indian rule are no solution to the Kashmir problem, Mr Salahudin appealed to Kashmiris to abstain from voting in the poll, which will be held in four phases from April 20. “I am hopeful my people will show regard to martyrs’ blood and keep distance from Indian puppets and their associates,” Mr Salahudin said. He said Kashmiris were “fighting for their liberation and not for gaining petty favours”.
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Kashmir Jihad takes on new ‘benign’ look
2004-02-26
Muttahida Jihad Council (MJC), an alliance of Kashmiri jihadi organizations has been restructured, with six smaller alliances within it representing various groups that will no longer use the words jihad, lashkar, jaish or mujahideen with their names so that they appear more political than militant. “These semi-alliances are the Kashmir Resistance Forum (KRF) 1, 2 and 3 and Kashmir Freedom Forum (KFF) 1 and 2, while only Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) is allowed to use its original name”, sources in the MJC told Daily Times.
You’d think they could at least have some more original names than Kashmir Resistance Forum 1, 2 and 3 etc. What about Kashmir Liberation Organisation, Kashmiri People’s Liberation Front and the KFC?
“We have been told that these names are damaging Pakistan’s image abroad as well as the Kashmiri freedom movement,” a jihadi leader said. Asked why HM was allowed to use its original name, he replied “HM also holds the chairmanship of the jihad alliance and quarters abroad consider it representative of the Kashmiri freedom movement alone”. Sources said this decision was taken in October 2003, implemented in January 2004. KRF 1 represents the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LT), Birgade 313 (a Harkatul Jihad-e-Islami faction lead by Commander Illyas Kashmiri), Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) and Al-Bader Mujahideen, while KRF 2 is an alliance of Al-Jihad, Al-Fateh, Hizb Ullah and Muslim Janbaz Force (MJF). KRF 3 consists of Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami (Maulana Muzaffar group), Jamiat-ul Mujahideen (JM) and Jamiat-ul-Ansar (JA), while KFF 1 is an alliance of Jaish Muhammad (JM) and Al-Umer Mujahideen and KFF 2 includes Islamic Front, Jamaat-ul-Furqan (JF), Tehrik-e-Jihad (TJ), Al-Barq and Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen (TM).
They could do with a bit more merging. Brigade 313 was supposed to be a new anti-state terrorist outfit operating in Karachi. Maybe they released Illyas Kashmiri the other day after he agreed to redirect his Jihadis to the Kashmir front..
This new ‘adjustment’ is called “Muwakhaat” (an Arabic word meaning agreement on the basis of brotherhood) and sources said this would also reduce the jihadi groups’ internal differences. “These organizations’ new identities will improve their image, making them look like political groups”, sources said. The MJC earlier consisted of 15 organizations; HM, TM, JM, Al-Barq, MJF, Hizb Ullah, Al-Jihad, Al-Fateh, HJI (Muzaffar group), IF, LI, Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, Al-Umer, JA, TJ, and all of these were Kashmir-based. Five Pakistan-based organizations LT, JM, Brigade 313, Al-Bader Mujahideen and JF were not the part of MJC but they have been included in the new structure. “The MJC constitution barred Pakistan-based organization from the alliance but circumstances have changed. We need unity and no one can deny their role in jihad”, a jihadi leader said. Sources also claimed Syed Salahudin will remain the chairman of MJC for five more years, being acceptable to all concerned.
It’s nice to actually have a Kashmiri here or there among the Jihadi leadership.
Sources said the Pakistan-based groups had asked to join the MJC, and claimed this wasn’t the first time that the MJC was being restructured. In January 2002, a formula for a merger was adopted but small and Pakistan-based organizations refused to accept it. They wanted to maintain their independent identity and most jihadi leaders were not prepared to be subordinate to small Kashmiri organizations”, sources claimed, adding, “this structure is an extension of 2002’s formula and now leaders of these organisations will not share responsibilities with others”. Sources said these smaller alliances would launch operations against Indian forces in Kashmir, but after permission from MJC leaders.
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Militant leader Ilyas Kashmiri released
2004-02-22
Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri, the Muzaffarabad-based chief of Harkatul Jihad Islami, was released on Saturday after a one-month detention for suspected links with suicide attackers who rammed their vehicles into President Pervez Musharraf’s convoy on December 25. The government arrested Mr Kashmiri in the first week of January.
Looks like the heat's letting up...
Sources said suicide bomber Sardar Jamil had first joined Mr Kashmiri’s outfit and defected to Jaish e-Mohammad later. Sources said the Muttahida Jihad Council (MJC) was instrumental in getting the authorities to release Kashmiri. “The MJC held many meetings with the authorities and finally convinced them that Mr Kashmiri had no links with the suicide attackers,” sources said. They said Mr Kashmiri was a prominent leader of the Harkatul Jihad Islami (Qari Saifullah Akhtar group) before forming his own faction. He had previously spent two years in jail in Held Kashmir. Ilyas Kashmiri was arrested in Kotli along with 130 members of his outfit. Sources said Jamil was the nephew of Jamiat ul Ansar head Farooq Kashmiri, but not a member of his uncle’s militant outfit. “The news of Mr Kashmiri’s release came as a surprise,” said a leader from a Azad Kashmir-based militant outfit who recalled MJC head Syed Salahudin meeting with President Musharraf in January. “Syed Salahudin requested that commander Ilyas be allowed to meet his family on Eidul Azha but the president’s response was stern and he was not prepared to listen to the MJC head,” he said.

The authorities have also released Maulana Abdul Rauf, the younger brother of Tehrik-e-Khuddam ul Islam (TKI) head Maulana Masood Azhar and Haji Abdul Jabbar, head of the defunct Jamaat ul Furqan. Sources said Mr Jabbar, former commander of the defunct Jaish Mohammad was seen in Azad Kashmir some time ago. He was arrested in Midhranjha, a town near Sargodha, in July 2003 in connection with the Taxila church blast and an attack on a missionary school in Murree in 2002. Mr Azhar had expelled Mr Jabbar and 12 other members of his outfit for their alleged involvement in sectarian killings. Mr Jabbar formed Jamaat-ul-Furqan after his expulsion but his organisation was banned in November 2003. Sources said the suicide attackers had links with Jamaat ul Furqan. “Jabbar was in custody at the time of the suicide attacks but he gave important information to the intelligence agencies about the militants who could have planned the attacks on President Musharraf,” sources said. Intelligence agencies had also suspected the TKI’s involvement in suicide attacks and therefore detained Mr Azhar’s brother for questioning.
Bargained his way out, did he? I hope what he traded was worth the eventual cost of his release...
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India-Pakistan
MJC not to target APHC leaders
2004-02-08
The Muttahida Jihad Council (MJC) has rejected a proposal from some of its members that the leaders of All Parties Hurriyat Conference’s (APHC) Ansari group be declared traitors and targets.
At least not openly, anyway...
The council also finalised an operational plan for 2004 in a meeting held recently. MJC sources told Daily Times that the jihadi leaders discussed their meeting with President Pervez Musharraf held in January. The council leaders agreed that General Musharraf had his own limitations, but the MJC would speed up its operations against the Indian forces in Held Kashmir, the sources said. The meeting said that if Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Gillani formed a new party, all member organisations would support him. The meeting decided that no member organisation would either issue a press statement about their activities or talk to reporters. The meeting also resolved that the MJC would not issue any statement regarding the India-Pakistan talks.
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India-Pakistan
MJC meeting with splinter groups yields no results
2004-02-05
The first meeting between the Muttahida Jihad Council (MJC) and activists from banned militant outfits held last week in Islamabad was inconclusive as the activists refused to rejoin their parent organisations, sources told Daily Times. Sources said the meeting lasted about four hours with harsh words exchanged from both sides and the splinters refusing to budge.
"Y'r ugly!"
"Youse gotta funny-lookin' turban!"
"Yer mudder wears combat boots!"
"How'd youse know dat?"
“The MJC leadership tried to persuade the splinters to quit terrorist activities that are damaging Pakistan’s image abroad,” sources said.
And not doing it too much good domestically, we might add...
The meeting was held against the backdrop of the MJC leadership’s assurances to President Pervez Musharraf that it would work with the government to root out terrorism. Sources said splinter groups from militant outfits had rallied with Al Qaeda, Asif Ramazi and the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. “Some of the splinters are working under newly-established Jammiat-ul-Mujahidin Al Alamin, whose leader was convicted of planning suicide attacks on the US Consulate in Karachi,” sources added.
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India-Pakistan
Kashmiris mull truce to facilitate possible Pak-India talks
2003-05-10
IRNA -- Kashmiri armed organizations are considering a proposal to announce ceasefire to facilitate expected Pakistan-India talks, reported a Pakistani newspaper said Friday. "The Muttahida Jihad Council (UJC) is considering an idea to observe ceasefire with a view to facilitating dialogue between Islamabad and New Delhi," Daily Times quoted a Kashmiri source as saying. The UJC is a conglomerate of over a dozen armed Kashmiri groups, fighting against Indian forces in Indian-administered Kashmir. The Lahore-based newspaper said that the UJC could announce ceasefire after conclusion of second round of possible parleys betweenthe two sides. Foreign Minister of Pakistan Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri said a few days back that Islamabad will ask the armed Kashmiri organizations to observe truce. Both the rival countries have expressed their resolve in recent weeks to resume dialogue process on all issues including the core problem of Kashmir.
I doubt that any truce will be uniformly adhered to, especially by the jihadis. Hizbul is sufficiently split that the cannon fodder faction might, but Salahuddi's air-conditioned office faction will only as long as the ISI keeps them on a short leash. I'm not sure what Lashkar e-Taiba's going to do — ISI will be tugging one way, but I don't think Hafez Saeed knows how to do anything but jihad.
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