After 23 years, MHA declares Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar as 'terrorist' ; was released during 1999 Airlines flight hijack
The MHA notification banning Zargar said he had been affiliated with Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front, the outfit headed by Yasin Malik, and had gone to Pakistan for obtaining illegal arms and ammunition training. It added that he has been running an incessant campaign from Pakistan to fuel terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir.
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New Delhi, April 14: The chief commander of Al-Umar Mujahideen, Mushtaq Ahmed Zarger, one of the three terrorists who were released at Kandhar in exchange for hostages aboard the hijacked IC-814 flight in 99, now has been declared as the 'terrorist' under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.
Zargar was released along with JeM chief Maulana Masood Azhar in exchange for over 150 hostages of the Indian Airlines Flight 814 in December 1999. Zargar was in jail since 1992 after the hijackers of Indian Airlines Flight 814 managed to secure his release in 1999.
The MHA notification banning Zargar said he had been affiliated with Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front, the outfit headed by Yasin Malik, and had gone to Pakistan for obtaining illegal arms and ammunition training. It added that he has been running an incessant campaign from Pakistan to fuel terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir.
Zargar has also been involved in various terror crimes including murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping, planning, and execution of terrorist attacks, and terror funding, said the home ministry.
He is also suspected to be the mastermind behind the 2019's Anantnag terror attack which led to the deaths of the five CRPF jawans. In June 2019, two terrorists, believed to be from Al-Umar Mujahideen, attacked a Road Opening Party of the CRPF late in south Kashmir's Anantnag.
Declaring him to be “a threat to peace, not only to India, but across the world, with his contacts and proximity to radical terrorist groups like the Al- Qaeda and Jaish-e-Mohammed, the Centre placed Zargar on the list of individual terrorists as entry no 35.
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