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Over the last few years, extensive ground-level reporting and on-field interactions with security forces and intelligence officers have made one thing clear: Bangladeshi infiltration is not a sporadic occurrence.
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This article is a summary of important security events that have taken place in last one week affecting. Innovative tactics by Hama ie use of hand gliders, dozers, three wheelers etc, Innovative use of drones.
The NIA attached the properties of Syed Ahmed Shakeel, the younger son of dreaded terrorist and Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin, in Srinagar's Budgam of Kashmir, under UAPA
It should be noted that Surat has always been on Yasin's radar and he had also played an important role in preparing 27 bombs along with Atif Ameen in 2008 when serial blasts took place in Delhi, Jaipur and Ahmedaba
In sharp warning to Islamabad, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has said Pakistan's progress in taking action on terror financing continues to be monitored after Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin was seen publicly at a terrorist funeral in Pakistan.
Hizbul Mujahideen chief and designated terrorist Syed Salahuddin was seen attending funerals for Bashir Ahmad Peer alias Imtiyaz Alam who was killed in Rawalpindi.
"We did not need to make Mujahideen. We created Mujahideen and then they became terrorists," Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said while addressing the country's upper house of Parliament after the deadly Peshawar terror attack.
Naushad Ali, the terrorist who was arrested in the Jahangirpuri area of the national capital, has made important revelations before the Delhi Police stating that he tried going to Pakistan through Nepal twice but failed.
Two terror suspects arrested recently by Delhi Police for allegedly planning targeted killings in India were in direct contact with at least four persons who have links with Pakistan-based 'Harkat-ul Ansar' & 'Hizbul Mujahideen'
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said more than 1500 youths of Assam have joined different militant organizations since 2016. CM Himanta informed the Assam Assembly that, a total of 1561 youths of the state have joined five militant outfits since 2016.
Along with Karate's wife, Assabah Arzoomand Khan, the J&K government has also dismissed three other persons including Muheet Ahmad Bhat, son of Hizbul Mujahideen's Syed Salahuddin
It should be noted that, Hussain was arrested from Bengaluru’s Okalipuram area in a joint operation by Jammu and Kashmir Police and Indian Army’s Rashtriya Rifles on June 3.
A self-styled commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen outfit was killed while three soldiers and a civilian were injured in an overnight encounter in Anantnag district
The designated committee in J&K has recommended the termination of these three employees from the government service. The three employees have been identified as Altaf Hussain Pandit, Mohd Maqbool Hajam, and Ghulam Rasool. Pandit is a Chemistry teacher at Kashmir University, Hajam is a teacher in a government school and Rasool is a police constable.
It should be noted that the terrorist Mohd Ashraf Khan was the oldest surviving terrorist of Hizbul and figured among the list of most-wanted terrorists after 2013, according to the police
In 2000, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists killed 36 Kashmiri Sikh men in cold blood in Chaittisinghpura in Anantnag while they were celebrating the Hola Mahalla festival.
The story starts in early 2000, when the Kashmir Valley had a stronghold of Hizbul Mujahideen, who were responsible for the deaths of many civilians and army personnel in the valley. At that time, it was one of the highly active groups whose main intention was always to keep the urge of independence and carry out false flag operations in the valley.
Salman Khurshid emphasized that Gandhi was taken aback by the manner in which the Indian Mujahideen terrorists were neutralized.
He has been identified as Shahid Ahmed Khanday, R/o Mandakpal, Khrew. Police has recovered the incriminating material including Arms and Ammunition from his possession.
J&K police neutralised the top two commanders of The Resistance Force (TRF), a shadow outfit of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
Gunned down top Hizbul commander in Kashmir
In Rajasthan, the Jaipur district court has convicted 12 SIMI members as terrorists and sentenced them to life imprisonment while acquitting the 13th accused person.
Awantipora Police along with Army's 42 RR and 180 BN of CRPF has busted a terrorist hideout in the forest area of Seer-Pastoona in Jammu and Kashmir's Awantipora area of Pulwama district.
"The real Heros aren't seen in Cinema Hall screens, you'll find them in a Uniform.." Imagine a 6 feet tall brave Indian Special Forces commando who changed his 'Name' and his 'Pehrava' for one of the deadliest missions.
Four terrorists Hizbul Mujahideen responsible for killing several civilians were killed in an encounter between security forces and terrorists in Hardimand Gori area of Mazgam in Damhal Hanjipora of Kulgam district this morning. PRO Defence Srinagar said that on specific input about the presence of terrorists, joint team of security forces including 34 Rashtriya Rifles launched a search operation in the area.
With pledging on to have zero tolerance on terrorism, suspended Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Superintendent of Police Davinder Singh who was caught while allegedly transporting two Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists was sent to 15-day National Investigation Agency (NIA) remand on Thursday. Davinder Singh was caught along with two terrorists Naveed Babu and Rafi Ahmed, and a lawyer Irfan Ahmed in a Jammu-bound vehicle on January 11.
Asserting undue vigilance and alertness at the border with India’s zero tolerance towards terrorism, the country is moving ahead swiftly to end the menace. With the security force acting regressively on border by stopping illegal infiltration of terrorists, the Jammu and Kashmir police have asserted that the proscribed terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen is on the verge of being completely wiped out in south Kashmir.
Having a strict vigilance on terror activities mongering in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, the security forces in South Kashmir’s Pulwama gunned down three Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists in an encounter on Sunday. According to officials, a joint team of police, army and paramilitary troops launched a search operation in Gulshanpora village of Tral following inputs about the presence of terrorists in the area.
Startling revelations coming its way, the Pune Police claimed that the arrested Left-wing activist Gautam Navlakha and Naxalite groups he is allegedly associated with were in touch with Islamist terror group Hizbul Mujahideen as well as Kashmiri separatists. Navlakha is facing a case over connections with Naxalite groups.
India’s strong call on crushing and cutting knots of terror activities by zero tolerance policy has created an impression of fear and defeat in the minds of terror chiefs. Highlighting the same, liberating ideas by instigating message of hatred and terrorism, Al Qaeda chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri released a video titled ‘Don’t forget Kashmir’. In the 14-minute long video, Al Qaeda chief asks ‘mujahideen’ in Kashmir to hit the Indian Army with ‘unrelenting blows’.
Acting strong towards its commitment on eliminating terrorists, the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir have successfully neutralised three in an encounter. It was a nine hour long fierce gunfight in Dragad Sugan area of Shopian in South Kashmir region. Security sources said the post encounter sanitization and search operation is on.
Pledging to wean terrorism, the security forces strive hard in eliminating terrorists eyeing their motherland. In a recent encounter, a top militant Zakir Musa was killed by the security forces on Thursday evening. The joint forces worked on a special intelligence, and had trapped him near his home in the Tral area of south Kashmir.
In an ensuing encounter in Kulgam area of Jammu and Kashmir, the security forces gunned down two terrorists on Wednesday. Additional security forces have been rushed to the area for strengthening the cordon.
In a fierce encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district, the security forces on Friday slayed Lateef Tiger, a top commander of Hizbul Mujahideen group and a close associate of the slain separatist poster boy Burhan Wani.
Ruling out terrorism completely, two Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists were gun down in an encounter with security forces on Thursday in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district. The security forces conducted the encounter based on credible intelligence inputs and also recovered arms and ammunitions from the site.
In the wake of busting terror financing cases, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached 13 properties of Mohammad Shafi Shah and six other terrorists of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen worth Rs 1.22 crores under Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA). The properties are located in Jammu and Kashmir.
Accused for the efforts to raise a module of Jammu and Kashmir-based terror group, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed charge sheets against five youths Hizbul Mujahideen in Assam conspiring to carry out attacks. The case was handed over to the NIA in October last year after police arrested prime accused Kamruj Zaman in Uttar Pradesh and subsequently four others.
Hours after the grenade attack at the bus stand in Jammu, the police officers arrested the person who threw the grenade. It has been added that the person detain is a Hizbul Mujahideen operative and had reached Jammu from Kulgam this morning. Police identified him using CCTV footage.
With the central government banning Jamaat-e-Islami J&K (JeI) for five years, the authorities have initiated a crackdown on the organization, suspected of funding terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen. More than 70 premises have been identified for sealing and JeI's assets worth Rs 52 crore will also be frozen across Jammu and Kashmir.
In a yet another fierce gunfight, the security forces in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir killed three unidentified terrorist. The encounter took place on Tuesday morning, a day after another encounter in Budgam on Monday.
In a successful mission, the security forces in the Bandipora district in Jammu and Kashmir have arrested a senior Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Sarfaraz Ahmed Sheer on Monday. The security force team has recovered arms and ammunitions from the terrorist.
India on Wednesday slammed Pakistan in the United Nations Security Council saying that the real problem in Jammu and Kashmir is cross-border terrorism emanating from Pakistan. While exercising its right of reply after Pakistan raised the UN report on Kashmir in the Human Rights Council, India firstly dismissed neighbour’s continued reference to the fallacious and motivated report which has been already out-rightly rejected.
In past 48 hours, Assam police have arrested four hardcore terrorists belonged to Pakistan-based Hizbul Mujahideen terror outfit from different locations of the state.
Jammu and Kashmir police on Tuesday arrested a wanted terrorist of Hizbul Mujahideen outfit named as Touseef Ahmad Gundna form Kishtawar district. Notably, Touseef Ahmad Gundna alias Abu Bakar, who was involved in encouraging young men and women to join the outfit and revive terror activity in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district was arrested by the state police after receiving a specific input.
Haroon Abbas Wani, a 29-year-old man with a master's degree and a son of a state government engineer hailing from Doda district of Jammu division has joined terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen. Notably, Haroon went missing from his home during the last week and joined Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) terrorist outfit in South Kashmir. Recently, pictures of Haroon, in combat fatigue holding an AK -47 rifle, surfaced on the social media which confirmed of him joining terror outfit. The social media posts claimed Haroon had
On Wednesday the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Delhi serial blasts accused Ariz Khan alias Junaid. He is also the working member of Indian Mujahideen (IM). NIA has unearthed key details on the functioning of the IM following the arrest of Ariz Khan. He has been remanded in NIA custody until the 24th of April.
Jammu and Kashmir police on Friday busted a network of Pakistan-based terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen and arrested a hardcore associate of terrorists in Ganderbal district. Notably, this is a result of intensified efforts of security forces to curb terrorism and terrorists from Jammu and Kashmir with an aim to bring peace, law and order in the valley.
In a major breakthrough, Delhi Police Special Cell on Wednesday arrested a most-wanted Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist Ariz Khan alias Junaid from the Indo-Nepal border. Notably, Ariz Khan was involved in five bomb blast cases.
A court in Delhi on Tuesday taking a stringent step forward framed conspiracy and other terror charges against Indian Mujahideen operative Yasin Bhatkal and eight others in a case of allegedly setting up an illegal arms factory.
Dark shadows of terrorism cannot last for a long time. This quote suits best for Abdul Subhan Qureshi, who was involved in 2008 Gujarat serial blasts has been finally arrested by Delhi police in Ghazipur area on Monday.
