Two folks together with the right-hand man of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) Chief Masood Azhar by the National Investigation Agency for his or her plans to disturb peace and communal concord in Jammu and Kashmir by attacking safety forces, officers stated Wednesday.
Muhammad Dilawar Iqbal, a resident of Abbaspur in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir goes by a number of aliases together with Maaz Khan Kashmiri and Azad Kashmiri and is a detailed affiliate of Masood Azhar, the National Investigation Agency stated in a press release.
He delivered incendiary speeches to incite youths in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir to conduct terrorist acts, it stated. The NIA has alleged that Dilwar Iqbal indoctrinated and motivated Kupwara-resident Mohammed Ubaid Malik additionally to hitch the JeM. The company has alleged that Dilwar Iqbal was motivating Kashmiri youths as half of a bigger conspiracy hatched by proscribed terrorist organisations and their associates to hold out terrorist acts and actions in the area.
“Dilwar would incite youth having a militancy background to pursue Jihad by sharing with them inflammatory audio clips and videos as well as images of Maulana Masood Azhar Alvi, showing the latter preaching radical Islam. He would also send videos related to encounters in the Kashmir valley and would provoke the youth to pick up arms,” an NIA spokesperson stated.
The company has been probing the terror conspiracy case since June 21, 2022 which it took on suo motu foundation. The case pertains to the conspiracy hatched by Pakistan-based terrorist organisations to “unleash violent terrorist attacks in J&K with sticky bombs, IEDs and small arms, etc” to hold out terrorist assaults and violence in the Union Territory.
“It involves radicalization of local youth and mobilization of overground workers of newly floated terrorist groups, such as The Resistance Front (TRF), United Liberation Front Jammu & Kashmir (ULFJ&K), Mujahideen Gazwat-ul-Hind (MGH), Jammu & Kashmir Freedom Fighters (JKFF), Kashmir Tigers, PAAF and others. These outfits are affiliated to proscribed terrorist outfits like Laskhar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Al-Badr, Al-Qaeda, etc,” the company has alleged.
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