Govt bans Jammu and Kashmir Ghaznavi Force for terror acts
6 min readBy PTI
NEW DELHI: The Jammu and Kashmir Ghaznavi Force (JKGF), which has been fashioned with cadres from terrorist organisations such because the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammed, was on Friday banned underneath the stringent anti-terror regulation, officers mentioned right here.
In a separate notification, a resident of Punjab, Harwinder Singh Sandhu alias Rinda, was declared a terrorist by the Ministry of Home Affairs, they mentioned.
According to a notification issued by the ministry, the JKGF has been concerned in infiltration bids, narcotics and weapon smuggling, terror assaults within the Union territory, and threats to safety forces.
The JKGF attracts its cadres from varied proscribed terrorist organisations, such because the Lashker-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen, Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami and others, the house ministry mentioned.
Sandhu alias Rinda, who hails from Punjab however is at the moment based mostly in Lahore and related to the banned group Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), has been declared a terrorist.
He is alleged to be one of many masterminds behind an assault on the intelligence headquarters of the Punjab Police in 2021.
A Red Corner Notice was additionally issued towards Sandhu by the Interpol.
The dwelling ministry mentioned the JKGF has been utilizing varied social media platforms to incite the folks of Jammu and Kashmir to affix terrorist outfits towards India.
The terror group is detrimental to nationwide safety and the sovereignty of India and is concerned in terrorism.
It has dedicated and took part in varied acts of terrorism within the nation, the ministry mentioned.
In train of powers conferred by the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, the JKGF has been designated as a terror group, the notification said.
The ban will likely be efficient to the JKGF and all its manifestations and entrance organisations.
The JKGF is the forty third group to be declared outlawed underneath the anti-terror regulation.
The dwelling ministry additional mentioned Harwinder Singh Sandhu has direct hyperlinks with Pakistan-based terrorist teams and can also be concerned in cross-border smuggling of arms, ammunition and militant {hardware}, moreover medicine on a big scale.
He was concerned in varied felony offences as nicely like homicide, try to homicide, contract killing, theft and extortion in Punjab, Maharashtra, Haryana, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, the ministry mentioned.
Singh is now the 54th particular person to be designated as a terrorist by the federal government.
Last month, the central authorities had banned two proxy organisations of the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammad and declared 4 people as terrorists.
On January 5, the The Resistance Front (TRF), a proxy of the Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, was declared a banned group.
The dwelling ministry mentioned the TRF was recruiting youth by the web medium for the furtherance of terrorist actions, recruitment of terrorists, infiltration of terrorists and smuggling of weapons and narcotics from Pakistan into Jammu and Kashmir.
The TRF got here into existence in 2019 as a proxy of the banned LeT, which was concerned in quite a few terror acts, together with the 26/11 Mumbai assault.
It was concerned in psychological operations on social media platforms for inciting folks of Jammu and Kashmir to affix terrorist outfits towards the Indian authorities, the ministry mentioned.
On January 6, the People’s Anti-Fascist-Front (PAFF), a proxy outfit of one other Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed, was banned for its involvement in terror acts within the Union territory and elsewhere.
The dwelling ministry mentioned the PAFF has been frequently issuing threats to safety forces, political leaders and civilians from different states who have been working in Jammu and Kashmir.
The PAFF, together with different organisations, is concerned in pro-actively conspiring each bodily and on social media to undertake violent terrorist acts in Jammu and Kashmir and main cities in India, it mentioned.
The 4 people who have been declared terrorists underneath the UAPA have been Aijaz Ahmad Ahanger alias Abu Usman Al-Kashmiri, who relies in Afghanistan and is likely one of the chief recruiters of the Islamic State Jammu and Kashmir (ISJK), Mohammed Amin Khubaiab alias Abu Khubaiab, who belongs to Jammu and Kashmir however at the moment is in Pakistan, Arbaz Ahmad Mir, who’s working for LeT, and Asif Maqbool Dar, who lives in Saudi Arabia and is a number one radical voice concerned in influencing the Kashmiri youth to take up arms.
Mir was additionally allegedly concerned in focused killings and emerged as the primary conspirator within the homicide of a trainer in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam a number of months in the past.
NEW DELHI: The Jammu and Kashmir Ghaznavi Force (JKGF), which has been fashioned with cadres from terrorist organisations such because the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammed, was on Friday banned underneath the stringent anti-terror regulation, officers mentioned right here.
In a separate notification, a resident of Punjab, Harwinder Singh Sandhu alias Rinda, was declared a terrorist by the Ministry of Home Affairs, they mentioned.
According to a notification issued by the ministry, the JKGF has been concerned in infiltration bids, narcotics and weapon smuggling, terror assaults within the Union territory, and threats to safety forces.
The JKGF attracts its cadres from varied proscribed terrorist organisations, such because the Lashker-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen, Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami and others, the house ministry mentioned.
Sandhu alias Rinda, who hails from Punjab however is at the moment based mostly in Lahore and related to the banned group Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), has been declared a terrorist.
He is alleged to be one of many masterminds behind an assault on the intelligence headquarters of the Punjab Police in 2021.
A Red Corner Notice was additionally issued towards Sandhu by the Interpol.
The dwelling ministry mentioned the JKGF has been utilizing varied social media platforms to incite the folks of Jammu and Kashmir to affix terrorist outfits towards India.
The terror group is detrimental to nationwide safety and the sovereignty of India and is concerned in terrorism.
It has dedicated and took part in varied acts of terrorism within the nation, the ministry mentioned.
In train of powers conferred by the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, the JKGF has been designated as a terror group, the notification said.
The ban will likely be efficient to the JKGF and all its manifestations and entrance organisations.
The JKGF is the forty third group to be declared outlawed underneath the anti-terror regulation.
The dwelling ministry additional mentioned Harwinder Singh Sandhu has direct hyperlinks with Pakistan-based terrorist teams and can also be concerned in cross-border smuggling of arms, ammunition and militant {hardware}, moreover medicine on a big scale.
He was concerned in varied felony offences as nicely like homicide, try to homicide, contract killing, theft and extortion in Punjab, Maharashtra, Haryana, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, the ministry mentioned.
Singh is now the 54th particular person to be designated as a terrorist by the federal government.
Last month, the central authorities had banned two proxy organisations of the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammad and declared 4 people as terrorists.
On January 5, the The Resistance Front (TRF), a proxy of the Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, was declared a banned group.
The dwelling ministry mentioned the TRF was recruiting youth by the web medium for the furtherance of terrorist actions, recruitment of terrorists, infiltration of terrorists and smuggling of weapons and narcotics from Pakistan into Jammu and Kashmir.
The TRF got here into existence in 2019 as a proxy of the banned LeT, which was concerned in quite a few terror acts, together with the 26/11 Mumbai assault.
It was concerned in psychological operations on social media platforms for inciting folks of Jammu and Kashmir to affix terrorist outfits towards the Indian authorities, the ministry mentioned.
On January 6, the People’s Anti-Fascist-Front (PAFF), a proxy outfit of one other Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed, was banned for its involvement in terror acts within the Union territory and elsewhere.
The dwelling ministry mentioned the PAFF has been frequently issuing threats to safety forces, political leaders and civilians from different states who have been working in Jammu and Kashmir.
The PAFF, together with different organisations, is concerned in pro-actively conspiring each bodily and on social media to undertake violent terrorist acts in Jammu and Kashmir and main cities in India, it mentioned.
The 4 people who have been declared terrorists underneath the UAPA have been Aijaz Ahmad Ahanger alias Abu Usman Al-Kashmiri, who relies in Afghanistan and is likely one of the chief recruiters of the Islamic State Jammu and Kashmir (ISJK), Mohammed Amin Khubaiab alias Abu Khubaiab, who belongs to Jammu and Kashmir however at the moment is in Pakistan, Arbaz Ahmad Mir, who’s working for LeT, and Asif Maqbool Dar, who lives in Saudi Arabia and is a number one radical voice concerned in influencing the Kashmiri youth to take up arms.
Mir was additionally allegedly concerned in focused killings and emerged as the primary conspirator within the homicide of a trainer in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam a number of months in the past.
