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Terrorists openly collect funds in Pak for war on India

Poreg View:  India focused militant organisations in Pakistan are freely roaming the country and are carrying out their drive for funds and new cadres. These outfits are unaffected by the American bans. The proscription has not hit them and they are not inviting the ire of the ‘agencies’ since they are toeing the line of ‘the establishment’, as a report in The Express Tribune says

One such Pakistan-based jihadi organisation is the Al-Badr Mujahideen led by Bakht Zameen. A splinter group of Hizbul Mujahideen, it is active in the Kashmir valley; three other outfits active in Kashmir are Hizbul Mujahideen, the Harkatul Jehadul Islami and the Jamiat ul Mujahideen.

The jihadis’ brazenness is evident from the Shuada Conference held on July 9 by Al-Badr Mujahideen in the Swan Adda area of Rawalpindi, which is the home to Pakistan army’s GHQ.   Delegates from Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir attended the two-day conference where Gulbaddin Hekmatyar’s Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan and Al Badr Mujahideen had set up stalls to sell anti-India and anti-America propaganda CDs and jihadi literature. ‘Commander’ Bakht Zameen Khan told 1,000-strong supporters at the conference that his group needed resources to keep the jihad going in Jammu & Kashmir and Afghanistan.

Star speaker at the meet was Syed Salahuddin, who heads the United Jihad Council. An alliance of 16 terrorist groups active in Jammu and Kashmir, the UJC is supported by the Pakistani military and its all-powerful Inter Services Intelligence. Top leaders of Hizbul Mujhiadeen, Hizbe-e-Islami Afghanistan, Jamaatul Daawa and other terror groups also spoke.

Al Badr Mujahideen is the oldest of the existing jihadi terrorist organisations of Pakistan. It appeared on the scene as Al Badr long years ago but changed its name after it came under international sanctions. It is close to JuD, which is the new incarnation of Muridke (near Lahore) based Lashkar-e-Tayiba. According veteran Pakistani journalist, Amir Mir, Al Badr Mujahideen is one of the richest of Jihadi organisations. Where the Al Badr and LeT differ is in the composition of their cadres. While LeT is mostly made up of Punjabi Muslims, Al Badr has primarily recruited Pashtuns and is credited with introducing suicide terrorism in Kashmir.

Read against the backdrop of reports that ISI is getting LeT target India, Al Badr’s fund raising assumes added significance. Pakistani handlers of jihadi groups badly need to divert media attention from the ‘disclosures’ that Lashkar-e-Taiba’s Abu Jundal is making every day in the Indian custody.  Undoubtedly Jundal’s revelations are ‘startling’ and they have caused huge embarrassment to the ISI and other Pakistani government agencies.

No surprise therefore Indian security agencies have over the past few days intercepted several wireless messages close to the Line of Control in the Kashmir Valley in which LeT commanders operating out of Muzaffarabad are telling counterparts across the border to launch major terror strikes in the region.  One of the voices on the intercepts is said to be of Muzammil Bhatt, Lashkar’s operational commander. And his message leaves no doubt since he was heard saying that even Hafiz Saeed is keen on a big terror attack on India..

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