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India-Pakistan

Policeman martyred as woman suicide bomber blows herself up in Turbat

2023-06-25

[GEO.TV] At least one policeman was martyred and a woman constable sustained injuries in a suicide kaboom

in the Turbat district of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, a bigwig said on Saturday.

The deputy commissioner of Ketch district said the woman jacket wallah blew herself up on Commissioner Road in the district.

The vehicle of the security forces was also damaged in the earth-shattering kaboom, he added.

Balochistan Chief Minister Abdul Quddus Bizenjo condemned the Turbat blast saying the aim of terrorist’s incident is to halt the development of the province.

"The objectives of turbans will never succeed," the CM was quoted as saying in a statement.

He said the provincial government will ensure the welfare of the people and make efforts to end backwardness of the province.

"The determination and morale of the security forces cannot be lowered," he added.

Earlier in April this year, as many as four people — including two coppers — were martyred in a bombing targeting a police vehicle in Quetta’s city's Shahrah-e-Iqbal area. Officials had told Geo News that at least 15 people were also injured in the blast which left several cars and cycle of violences in the vicinity damaged. Those killed in the blast also include a minor girl.

Civil Defence Director Rafu Mandokhail said that three to four kilos of explosives were used in the blast, while the kaboom was installed in a cycle of violence.

For the past few months, Pakistain has been gripped by a spate of terror attacks with even the country's major urban centres such as Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
and Beautiful Downtown Peshawar

...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
under the radar of turbans targeting security forces with the aim to deteriorate peace.

The National Security Committee (NSC) — in a meeting held in April — also decided to kick start an all-out comprehensive operation against bully boy outfits to root out the menace of terrorism from the country.

The meeting was held in continuation with the NSC meeting after the terrorist attack on January 2, 2023, in Peshawar Police Lines, which claimed the lives of more than 80 people, mainly law enforcers.

Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her.
Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?...
security forces have been conducting operations against turbans with the determination to eliminate terrorism from the country and resolve to strengthen the sacrifices of its soldiers.

The Pakistain Institute of Peace Studies (PIPS), a think tank in Islamabad, stated that the number of terrorist attacks in the country have increased by 27% last year compared to 2021. At least 419 people were killed, while 734 were maimed in 262 terrorist attacks last year.

Dawn adds that the attack took place at Chakar Azam Chowk.

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India-Pakistan

4 Kashmiris among 5 with links to Islamic State arrested: DGP Gujarat

2023-06-11

[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....
] The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the Gujarat
...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime...
Police have arrested five persons including a woman from Porbandar with alleged links to proscribed international terror outfit the 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....
- Khorasan Province (ISKP) an affiliate of the Islamic State.

Gujarat Police said on Saturday that the arrests were made as part of a special operation and raids were still underway.

Addressing a news conference here, Director General of Police (DGP) Gujarat Vikas Sahay said that the officials of the ATS of the Gujarat Police had received information that three of the forces of Evil linked to the ISKP were planning to leave India via Gujarat.

"It is a banned terrorist organization, Islamic State - Khorasan Province. Three forces of Evil affiliated with this organization were planning to leave from Porbandar via the waterway," the DGP said.

"This information was received by the ATS of Gujarat Police. The information was properly processed and further developed," the Police official said.

"Acting on the tip-off, a team of Gujarat ATS early morning of June 9, set up a watch at Porbandar railway station and identified the three youth and held them and questioned them," the DGP said. "The three arrested from Porbandar were identified as Ubaid Nasir Mir, Hanan Hayat Shawl, and Muhammad Hajim Shah, all natives of Srinagar."

Srinagar is the summer capitol of Kashmir, and just chock full of jihadi groups sponsored, controlled by, or otherwise connected to Pakistan’s ISI. Though ISIS-K is supposed to be independent of all that.

He said that based on questioning the detained trio, two more people also linked to the ISK were held.

They have been identified as Zubair Ahmed Munshi from Srinagar and one woman, Sumerabanu Mohammad Hanif Malek, who is a resident of Surat city.

Gujarat Home Minister Harsh Sanghvi said that five suspected forces of Evil were arrested and congratulated the Gujarat Police ATS and Surat Crime Branch for the arrests.

"Gujarat Police have been thwarting terror plots and it will continue to do so in the coming days. Gujarat Police will take forward the zero tolerance policy of the Centre as put forth by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. Five suspected persons have been arrested, one is from Surat," Sanghvi said.

One India adds:

"The three men were planning to use a fishing boat from Porbandar to cross the International Maritime Boundary Line and reach Afghanistan via Iran
Iran

...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and join ISKP," Sahay told news hounds.

During preliminary interrogation, they revealed that they were trained and radicalised by a handler identified as Abu Hamza.

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India-Pakistan

A Dawood Link Crops Up in NIA’s Probe On Fake Rs 2.000 Notes

2023-06-01

[OneIndia] There has been a lot of talk if counterfeiting would come down after the Reserve Bank of India said that it would stop printing the Rs 2,000 notes.

Earlier this month the National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed an application relating to a case dated 2021 in a special court in Mumbai, seeking the custody of two accused persons. The NIA, which took over the case earlier this year was able to trace the criminal masterminds of the fake currency racket.

The NIA said that Javed Patel alias Javed Chikna was involved in circulating these high-quality fake notes of Rs 2,000. Javed is a close aid of proscribed terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, who is also an accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts. Javed himself is a designated terrorist.

In 2021, two persons, Riyaz Abdul Suleman Shikilkar were arrested in Thane and counterfeit notes of Rs 2,000 was seized from them. They were caught with 149 notes.

The two accused were trafficking and circulating the fake currency on the instructions of a wanted person whose code name was 'uncle.' The NIA has said that the said person they were referring to is Javed. He is operating from a Malaysian number, but the IP address of his WhatsApp has been traced to Pakistain, the NIA also found.

The NIA said that those persons arrested are part of an international syndicate which is involved in printing and circulating fake currency notes. The intention is to damage the monetary stability of India, the NIA also said.

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Britain

NIA Team Lands In London To Probe Pro-Khalistan Elements

2023-05-25

[OneIndia] A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has reached London to probe the ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful mostly peaceful demonstration and attempt to vandalise the Indian High Commission by pro-Khalistan protesters on March 19.

Official sources tell OneIndia that the NIA team will work closely with the Scotland Yard and Metropolitan Police in London. The NIA would look to gather details about the elements who were behind this demonstration, the source also added.

Another official who did not wish to be named said that the basic angle of the probe apart from identifying the trouble makers would also be into the larger conspiracy. There have been reports galore that Khalistan elements residing in London and Canada have the support of Pak handlers.

Pro-Khalistan supporters had pulled down the Indian National Flag and also attempted to vandalise the High Commission in London on March 19. The British Police had however not reacted at that time.

The NIA took over the probe fro, the Delhi Police after the Ministry of Home Affairs had met with the UK Home Office representatives in April.

The NIA would be looking into the role by Pakistain into the incident. The NIA is also looking into a larger gangster-terror nexus. It has been probing the role of local gangsters who at the behest of those hiding in Canada are staging attacks in India.

In the Mohali RPG attack case, the NIA had learnt that gangsters from Canada a the behest of the ISI were directing locals to stage attacks in Punjab.

Furthermore the NIA is also probing gangsters operating from the jails in India. Recently the agency learnt that gangster Lawrence Bishnoi had drawn up a hit-lit in which actor Salman Khan was on the top. He is being probed in connection with the murder of singer Siddhu Moosewala.

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India-Pakistan

NIA Announces Rs 10 Lakh Bounty On Pro-Khalistan Leader Kashmir Singh Galwaddi

2023-05-25

[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has announced a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh against Khalistan separatist 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....
Singh Galwaddi alias Balbir Singh.

Singh has been accused of promoting terror activities in various parts of the country. He is also wanted in a case registered by the NIA under Sections 120-B, 121-A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and sections 17, 18-B, and 38 of the UAPA (Unlawful Activities Prevention Act).

"NIA has declared a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh against the above-mentioned accused, Kashmir Singh Galwaddi alias Balbir Singh. If any person has any information of importance on the above-mentioned accused. Leading to his arrest or apprehension, the information may be shared with the probe agency," a statement by the agency read.

NIA officials said that those providing information about Singh would be protected and their identity would be kept secret.

The NIA has been truing to nab Singh for a long time. He is also accused of breaking the Nabha jail in Punjab. He is a radical preacher the NIA official also said.

In 2016, Singh along with 20 others beat feet from the Nabha jail in Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
after attacking prison authorities. He was also involved in a 2013 attack on a Hindu leader on Gurdaspur.

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India-Pakistan

Has Haji Salim Replaced Dawood Ibrahim As The New Drug Lord In Pakistan?

2023-05-17

[OneIndia] The Indian agencies are keeping a close tab on one Haji Salim alias Haji Ali after his name had cropped in a drug investigation.

Investigations have shown that Salim has been the main supplier of drugs to India since the year 20156.

[sic]

A resident of Afghanistan, Salim is settled in Pakistain and runs his empire from there. All the major drug busts in India since the year 2016 have his links, an official tells OneIndia.

Earlier, Salim was handling the drug trade along the Afghanistan-Pakistain border, but over the years he has spread his tentacles to other countries, the official cited above said. What the agencies are trying to ascertain is whether Salim has replaced Dawood Ibrahim as the main drug supplier to India or is working under the notorious don, who is wanted in scores of cases in India.

If one notices the massive drug busts that have happened in India, it has all been through the sea route. Salim is said to have built his network and has extensively used the sea route to push drugs into India.

It was around four years back that the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) was given information about Salim by the National Security Council Secretariat.

While his links with Dawood is unclear, his connection with the ISI is a well known fact. The Indian agencies had launched 'Operation Samudragupta' to stop drug smuggling from Pakistain and Afghanistan into India. Thanks to multiple operations launched by the Indian agencies, several drug consignments have been busted. The drug lords usually use the Gujarat
...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime...
coast to get drugs into the country. From here it makes its way to Mumbai following which it is distributed across the country.

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India-Pakistan

'Dawood in Karachi, sends Rs 10 lakh every month to siblings in India': Witness in Nawab Malik's case tells ED

2022-05-26

Not everything the man does supports Pakistan’s pet jihadis.

[OneIndia] A witnesses in a money laundering case against Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik has stated before the ED that runaway gangster Dawood Ibrahim is based in Pakistain's Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
city, while another witness said he was told that Dawood would send Rs 10 lakh to his siblings every month.

The statements of the two witnesses are part of the charge-sheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against Malik in the money laundering case pertaining to a property of Dawood Ibrahim.

In his statement before the probe agency, Alishah Parkar, son of the gangster's sister Haseena Parkar, said Dawood Ibrahim is his "mamu" (maternal uncle) and used to reside on the 4th floor of Dambarwala Building (Mumbai) around 1986.

"After 1986, I heard from various sources and family that Dawood Ibrahim is in Karachi, Pakistain. I was not born when Dawood Ibrahim moved to Karachi, and I or my family members are not in touch with him," he told the ED.

Alishah Parkar further stated that occasionally during Eid, Diwali and other festive occasions, Dawood Ibrahim's wife "is in touch" with his wife and sisters.

Another witness, Khalid Usman Sheikh, has stated before the ED that “(Iqbal) Kaskar (Dawood Ibrahim's brother) told me that Dawood would send money through his men."

"He (Kaskar) said he too would get Rs 10 lakh every month. On a couple of occasions, he showed me wads of cash and said he'd received the money from Dawoodbhai," the witness told the ED.

Malik (62), a senior NCP leader, was arrested by the ED on February 23 this year in the money laundering case and is currently in jail.

The ED's case is based on an FIR filed recently by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) against Ibrahim, a designated global terrorist and a key accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial kabooms, and his aides under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

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India-Pakistan

D-Company’s Mumbai module had planned targeted killing of Indian politicians

2022-05-15

[OneOndia] The NIA told the court that Shakeel was sending money and overseeing this module in Mumbai.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested two accused in Maharashtra in connection with the D-Company

...the Dawood Ibrahim mob. Dawood's an international mobster allied with various terror groups including al-Qaeda. The Pak govt can't seem to catch him, despite having his address and phone number...
case. The arrested persons are Arif Abubakar Sheikh and Shabbir Abubakar Sheikh.

These persons are associates of Dawood Ibrahim and were involved in arms smuggling, narco terrorism, money laundering, circulation of fake Indian currency notes.

They were also involved in illegal activities of the syndicate and were indulged in terror funding in the western suburbs of Mumbai. They are closely associates with Dawood's right hand man, Chhota Shakeel who is operating an international syndicate from Pakistain. Shakeel is also involved in extortions, narcotics smuggling and terrorist acts in India.

The NIA told the court that Shakeel was sending money and overseeing this module in Mumbai. The primary objective of this module was to target politicians across the country. They were also told to incite terrorism in the country, the NIA said.

Earlier this week the NIA conducted raids at 24 locations in the Mumbai Commissionerate and five places in Mira Road Bhayandar Commissionerate on Monday.

The case on hand pertained to the criminal activities of international terrorist network of the Dawood Ibrahim Company or D-Company. The NIA said that the case involves Dawood Ibrahim and his associates including Haji Anees, Shakeel Sheikh alias Chhota Shakeel, Javed China, Tiger Memon.

They are in unauthorised possession/involved in acquisition of key assets for raising terror funds and working in active collaboration with international terrorist organization including 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), 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...
(JeM) and Al Qaeda (AQ), the NIA said.

The NIA during the raids seized incriminating material including electronic devices, documents of investments in real estate, cash and fire arms.

The NIA had in February registered an FIR after it was learnt that several of these persons were linked to Dawood and were raising funds to sponsor terror in the country.

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India-Pakistan

SJF calls for hoisting Khalistan flags in Haryana

2022-04-17

[OneIndia] The banned outfit Sikhs for Justice has called for the merger of Haryana and Punjab.

Its proscribed chief, Gurpatwant Singh Pannu

...a lawyer who lives safely and comfortably in America, far from the ructions he incites and funds...

said that soon Haryana will be in the hands of the Khalistan's.

...the idea of an independent Sikh homeland in the Indian (and Pak, but they don't dwell on that) Punjab. The local troublemakers are financed by the Sikh diaspora, who love the idea of the folks they left behind murdering their neighbours before dying romantically for a hopeless idea, with training and additional funding from Pakistain’s ISI via Lashkar-e-Taiba as yet another arrow in their quiver aimed at the Indian throat since the 1980s....

Once he posted the video, it went viral on the social media. Penny threatened that Haryana will soon become part of Khalistan and will be merged with Punjab. He also said that in order to achieve this goal, Khalistan flags will be hoisted atop offices of the Deputy Commissioner of Gurgaon and Ambala on April 29.

Home Minister of Haryana, Anil Vij that he has taken serious note of the matter and order the state police chief to take appropriate action in this regard.

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India-Pakistan

5 Khalistani terrorists charged for smuggling arms, drugs using drone from Pak

2022-03-13

[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency has filed a chargesheet against five Khalistan

i ~~bandidos~~ bully boyz in connection with a narcotics and arms smuggling case.

The NIA has charged Harmesh Singh, Darvesh Singh, Gurmukh Singh,Gagandeep and Lakhbir Singh Rode.

Good Sikh names, all...

The NIA said that these persons were smuggling arms and narcotics from Pakistain and bringing it into India.

Investigation has revealed that the chargesheeted accused persons had smuggled illegal consignments of arms, ammunitions, explosives and narcotics from across the Indo-Pak border to carry out terror activities in India.

These illegal consignments were sent by accused Lakhbir Singh Rode (Chief of ISYF,

...the International Sikh Youth Federation, banned in Canada as a terror organization in 2003, and a favourite of Canadian politicians ever since...

a banned terrorist organization) and his associates from Pakistain via drones. These consignments were received by co-accused and further discreetly passed on to other accused persons involved in the conspiracy to carry out subversive activities in India. Incriminating evidences have been found against all the chargesheeted accused persons. Till now, 5 accused have been arrested in the case while accused Lakhbir Singh Rode is absconding.

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India-Pakistan

Why a dishonest Pakistan remains in the Grey List for terror financing

2022-03-06

[OneIndia] Pakistain has once again been retained in the Grey List by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The country was told that it needed to do more in probing and prosecuting big shots and commanders of the UN designated terrorist groups for terror financing.

Pakistain has repeatedly failed to act against its proxies such as the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and 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...
. Pakistain also has failed to act against the many members of this outfit and has only made symbolic arrests of the chiefs of these groups when the heat is raised on it.

Several holy warriors of both the above mentioned groups involved in attacks such as the one in Mumbai and Pulwama are walking around scot free. Operatives such as Sajid Mir who have played a crucial role in the Mumbai 26/11 attacks do not exist under Pakistain's radar. Islamabad in fact till date denies the existence of this person.

The FATF in a statement said the FATF encourages Pakistain to continue to make progress to address, as soon as possible, the one remaining item by continuing to demonstrate that investigations and prosecutions target big shots and commanders of UN-designated terrorist groups.

Pakistain should continue to work to address the one remaining item in its 2021 action plan by demonstrating a positive and sustained trend of pursuing complex investigations and prosecutions.

In 2020, Pakistain had sought to wriggle out of the Grey List and had imposed financial sanctions on 88 banned terror groups and their leaders, including 26/11 Mumbai attack criminal mastermind and Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
(JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go....
, Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar

...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included his release among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India...
and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.

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India-Pakistan

Money Laundering Case: ED takes custody of Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar

2022-02-20

While Dawood Ibrahim amuses himself supporting Pakistan’s jihad against India, his brother takes care of the family’s gangster business back home.

[OneIndia] Enforcement Directorate (ED) took custody of gangster Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar from Thane jail in connection with an alleged money laundering case. He will be produced before a special PMLA court in Mumbai today.

Kaskar, already lodged in Thane jail in connection with multiple cases of alleged extortion, was taken into custody in the fresh case.

The probe agency is expected to seek his custody for questioning in the newly registered case against him, runaway gangster Ibrahim and others linked to the Mumbai underworld.

The ED on Tuesday conducted multiple searches in Mumbai as part of a money laundering probe into the operations of the underworld and linked illegal property deals and hawala transactions.

About 10 locations, including those linked to 1993 Mumbai blasts' criminal mastermind Dawood Ibrahim's late sister Haseena Parkar, his brother Iqbal Kaskar and a brother-in-law of gangster Chota Shakeel's in Maharashtra's capital city, were covered.

The action was undertaken under sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

The ED case is based on an FIR filed recently by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) against Ibrahim, a runaway gangster, and others.

The NIA had filed its criminal complaint under sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).

The anti-money laundering agency is understood to have recovered documents related to these alleged illegal property deals with links to Indian businessmen operating here and in Dubai, the sources said.

Some political links to these shady deals are also under the scanner of the agency.

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