NEWSRAEL: On the same day both Israel and India have reported that they have broken large terror-funding networks. Coincidence?
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.
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