The Indian authorities have busted a major jihad financing network in the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir. The raids conducted on Monday were the latest in the series of anti-terror operations aimed at Islamic “charities” funneling money to terrorist groups waging jihad in India’s Muslim-dominated Kashmir region.
Investigators from the National Investigation Agency (NIA), India’s leading counterterrorism agency, raided several properties linked to the operatives of the terrorist group Jamaat-e-Islami. “Extensive searches had been conducted in Srinagar, Budgam, Pulwama, Shopian, Awantipora, Anantnag, Handwara, Kupwara and Poonch districts on premises relating to members of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) (…) involved in conspiracies hatched by proscribed terrorist organisations and their affiliates,” the India Today weekly reported.
The Kashmir chapter of Jamaat-e-Islami has been raising funds for Pakistan-backed terrorist organizations such as Hizb-ul-Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Taiba, recent Indian media reports confirm.
The terrorism financing network had ties to cross-border drug trade, and was reportedly being used to provide cash, explosives and weapons to Kashmir-based jihadists, news reports suggest. The counterterrorism agency’s “investigation relates to the procurement and distribution of large quantities of narcotics, cash, weapons, and improvised explosive devices (IEDs), including drone-delivered remote-control-operated sticky bombs and magnetic bomb,” the Indian TV channel News18 reported Monday.
“‘Terror conspiracy’: NIA conducts searches in 4 Kashmir districts,” The Print, June 26, 2023:
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted a series of raids across four districts in Kashmir on Monday as part of its probe into an alleged conspiracy involving newly-floated offshoots of proscribed Pakistan-backed terror outfits to destabilise Jammu and Kashmir.
“Twelve locations in the four districts of Kulgam, Bandipora, Shopian and Pulwama were raided as part of the crackdown. The locations were residential premises of hybrid terrorists and overground workers linked with newly-formed offshoots and affiliates of banned terrorist outfits. Premises of sympathisers and cadre of these organisations were also searched extensively,” the NIA said in a press release.
The agency said it has found several digital devices containing large volumes of incriminating data during the searches. (…)
The newly-floated terror outfits being probed by the premier investigating agency include The Resistance Front (TRF), the United Liberation Front Jammu and Kashmir (ULFJ&K), the Mujahideen Gazwat-ul-Hind (MGH), the Jammu and Kashmir Freedom Fighters (JKFF), the Kashmir Tigers and the PAAF.
These outfits are affiliated to Pakistan-backed organisations, such as Laskhar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Al-Badr and Al-Qaeda, which have been banned by the government of India.
Uma says
Good Job by by The National Investigation Agency (NIA). Welldone.
Regards and blessings
Uma
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Problem is that India is indulging jihadist forces now in every state, including Jammu & Kashmir. There, Article 370 is back in disguise: Indian citizens outside that state have to show a 15 year residence before they can buy property: under Article 370, they could not buy property in the state. And then there is the islamization of Himalayan areas – Jammu, Himachal and Uttarakhand
I’m rooting for Ekam Sanatan Bharat in the elections next year. Since they won’t be able to win outright, I’m hoping for a hung parliament, where one party or another will be forced to make concessions to them to get their support, and those concessions would be the 7 ideals
Hide says
United Kingdom pledged £665 million to Pakistan from 2009–2013. Between 2014 to 2019, Pakistan was the largest recipient of direct UK foreign development aid. It received approximately £320 million in aid in 2019/20 as part of Department for International Development’s programme.
Lyone Fein says
Go India! Keep up the good work!