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Incidents and Statements involving Jaish-e-Mohammed : 1999-2012
2012
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December 13: A local militant, identified
as Khitab of Kulgam district of South Kashmir and Pakistan national
Yehya Khan of JeM outfit were and a 'divisional commander' of LeT
were shot dead by SFs.
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December 7: Kathmandu has been asked
to strengthen its screening process along India-Nepal borders as
HuM, LeT and JeM were using it to launch terror modules in India.
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December 5: Drawing its cadres from
LeT, JeM and HM, terrorist outfit HuA is resuming operations under
a new name of Jabbar-ul-Mujahideen.
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November 27: Replying to a question,
Union Minister of State for Home Affairs R. P. N Singh told Lok
Sabha (Lower House of Parliament) that various terrorist groups,
including Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Indian Mujahideen (IM) and Jaish-e-Mohammed
(JeM) are engaged in terrorist activities in the country. "As per
available information, militants/terrorists active in India are
often supported by their parent outfits based abroad, particularly
in Pakistan," he said. Singh said other terrorist outfits which
are active in India include Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), Al-Umma,
Al Badr, Harkat-ul-Jehadi-Islami (HuJI), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM),
Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF)
and Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF).
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November 24: SFs shot dead Yasir
Tunda, a JeM 'divisional commander', in Rafiabad area of Sopore
in Baramulla District. A laptop, an AK-47 assault rifle, 2 Magazine,
20 AK ammunition rounds, one Chinese pistol, one pistol magazine,
two pistol rounds and 3 Chinese grenades were recovered from the
encounter site.
SFs shot dead a 'divisional commander'
of JeM in Rafiabad area of Sopore in Baramulla District. Yasir Tunda,
a Pakistani national, was operating under the code names of Showkat,
Shoaib and Shehzeb in Handwara area of Kupwara District and Rafiabad-Sopore
areas of Baramulla District.
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November 20: JeM 'chief', Qari Yasir,
along with several top leadership of the outfit, has been trapped
by Army and Police in Lolab forests in the frontier District of
Kupwara. It is now believed that the group consists of eight militants
including JeM 'chief' Qari Yasir.
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November 19: Army's 18 RR and Police
trapped a heavily armed group of six militants in Lolab forests
of Kupwara District and two of the trapped militants were critically
injured.
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November 5: Two OGWs of JeM militants
were arrested from Sonargund Awantipora in Budgam District. The
arrestees were identified as Altaf Hussain Mir son of Abdul Gani
and Shamim Ahmad Wani son of Mohammad Khalil residents of Hanjan
Payeen, Rajpora (Samba District). A Chinese pistol, two pistol magazines,
four rounds of pistol ammunition, three UBGL grenades, three rocket
shells and 113 rounds of AK ammunition were recovered from them.
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October 6: JeM has issued fresh
life-threatening warning in the State. Poster warnings have been
put up at strategic locations in Pulwama (Pulwama District), warning
youngsters from exercising tolerance towards other religions.
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September 29: Principal Sessions
Judge, Ramban District, M. A. Chowdhary awarded 14 years imprisonment
and fine of INR 20,000 to two JeM militants, identified as Mohammad
Shaheen code Aarif, son of Abdul Gani Naik of Manjoos in Banihal
and Badar Din code Umar, son of Nazir Ahmad Wani of Tanta in Thathri.
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September 26: The NIA cited communication
between arrested members of the IM, including Pakistani national
Adil Ajmal who was arrested by the special cell of the Delhi Police
from Bihar, in 2011. The agency alleged that Adil received USD 13,000
through Western Union money transfer for recruiting and financing
the modules.
According to the NIA, Adil was earlier
a member of the banned outfit, JeM, and came to India from Bangaldesh
in 2010. By then he was a member of the IM and claimed to have met
Riyaz and Yasin Bhatkal. He was reportedly paid USD300 by Riyaz
and asked to carry out recruitment and logistic work for the IM
along with Yasin in India.
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September 8: A highly-specialised
cyber division of Pakistan's the ISI has been assigned the task
of training operatives of militant outfits in the use of cyber technology.
The ISI's cyber experts are visiting training camps of militant
outfits like the LeT, JeM and the IM most of which are located in
PoK to train their cadre in use of computers.
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August 16: Police arrested a leader
of Kashmir separatist militant group JeM and was designated to recruit
Rohingyas for the outfit.
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August 2: Secretary of State of
the Department had also designated certain organisations as FTOs
in accordance with Section 219 of the INA. Those designated as FTO
included HuJI, HuM, JeM and LeT, which are also conducting terrorist
activities in J&K State.
Another terrorist outfit that has
been active in Kashmir is JeM, which had several hundred armed supporters
including a large cadre of former HuM members - located in Pakistan,
Kashmir and Doda regions.
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June 26: Adil alias Ajmal,
a Pakistani national told Police that in 2009, Jundal reportedly
trained 90 men at LeT Bhawalpur training camp in the Punjab Province
of Pakistan, many of them later joined the IM. He in his statement
to the Police, which is now part of the judicial records, said that
he met Jundal at the Bhawalpur camp along with another LeT leader,
Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, and JeM 'commander' Abdul Rauf, brother of
Maulana Masood Azhar.
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June 5: JeM had asked panchayat
members in the area to resign triggering mass resignations of panchs
and sarpanchs in south Kashmir, where Kulgam is located. Reports
said the JeM's purported threat along with a similar warning from
the LeT earlier is the reason why around 20 panchs and sarpanchs
have quit. A number have been shot at, mostly in their legs.
Meanwhile, officials have denied
such resignations. "None of the panchayat members have submitted
their resignations officially," an unnamed official said. Another
unnamed Police officer said, "(We are verifying) whether the posters
were actually issued by militant organisations or someone else to
keep them away from day-to-day work."
Locals say that posters of JeM were
seen in villages of Pulwama and Shopian Districts this week, warning
elected rural body members to resign within a week's time or face
consequences. The posters were reportedly pasted on electricity
poles, walls of mosques and shops in public places. Pulwama Superintendent
of Police, Amit Kumar, admitted that three to four posters were
seen in a few areas. "At some places posters were of LeT, at others
they were of HM and Jaish. We are investigating the case. They might
be posters of militants and there is possibility it could be foul
play as well," the officer said.
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February 20: Speakers at a Difa-e-Pakistan
Council (DPC) rally in Islamabad on February 20 condemned United
States (US) drone attacks, military operations in tribal areas,
tabling of a resolution on Balochistan in the US House of Representatives
and the ban on some religious parties. The speakers warned the Government
against restoring NATO supply routes and granting the MFN (Most
Favoured Nation) status to India till resolution of the Kashmir
dispute. The DPC rally was organised by JeI and security arrangements
were made by HM. Most of the participants belonged to JuD, ASWJ,
Ansarul Ulema, formerly HuM.
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January 1: Ramban District is speedily
moving towards "zero militancy" as only four militants of HM are
currently active in the area.
2011
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December 5: Mohammed Qateel Siddiqui
(27), originally from Darbhanga (Bihar), was arrested from Delhi
on November 22; Gauhar Aziz Khomani (31), originally from Darbhanga
(Bihar), was arrested in Delhi on November 23; Gayur Ahmad Jamali
(21), originally from Madhubani (Bihar), was arrested from Darbhanga
on November 24; Mohd Adil alias Ajmal (40), from Karachi,
trained by JeM as a shooter, and sent by the Bhatkal brothers first
to Nepal and then to India to recruit local Muslims for terror attacks,
was held from Madhubani on November 25; Abdur Rehman (19) from Darbhanga,
was arrested in Chennai on November 27; and Mohd Irshad Khan (52)
from Samastipur (Bihar) , was arrested in Chennai on November 27.
Khan's daughter was married to Yasin. It's in his house in Okhla
in Delhi, that Yasin is believed to have been staying for at least
six months. Security agencies are looking for four others from Madhubani.
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November 30: Delhi Police investigators
on November 30 announced the neutralization of a terrorist cell
that they claimed was responsible for a string of nationwide attacks
in the year 2010. The Delhi Police's élite Special Cell announced
that it had arrested six persons, including a Pakistani operative
of the militant Islamist outfit JeM, identified as Muhammad Adil,
on the suspicion of having carried out three major attacks: a shooting
at Delhi's historic Jama Masjid in September; the serial bombs outside
Bangalore's Chinnaswami Stadium in April; and the bombing of the
German Bakery in Pune in February. While two of the six militants,
Mohammad Qateel Siddiqi and Gauhar Aziz Khomani were arrested in
Delhi on November 22 and 23 respectively, two others, Gayur Ahmad
Jamali and Mohammad Adil (the Pakistani national) were arrested
in Darbhanga and Madhubani in Bihar on November 24 and 25 respectively.
The remaining two militants, Mohammad Irshad Khan and Abdur Rahman,
were arrested in Chennai in Tamil Nadu on November 27.
However, fugitive IM 'commander'
Muhammad Zarar Siddibapa - a Karnataka resident also known by the
alias Yasin Bhatkal and the commander of the cell, who is
wanted for his alleged role in a string of urban bombings that began
in 2005 - escaped arrest, the Police said. Adil is alleged to have
had past relationships with both the JeM and organised crime groups.
He, according to the Police, was living under cover in Madhubani,
Bihar, since 2010, when he was despatched to India by IM commanders
in Karachi to aid Siddibapa's cell.
Meanwhile, in a major arms haul,
two half-assembled grenade launchers, pistol parts and four kilograms
of white and brown powder were seized from a 'factory' at Mir Vihar
near Rani Khera in southwest Delhi. While the white powder is ammonium
nitrate, the brown powder could be RDX, said the Police, adding
that the factory was the hideout of fugitive Muhammad Zarar Siddibapa
alias Shahrukh, who had been living there for the last few
months.
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November 22: The Union Government
said that Pakistan's spy agency Inter Services Intelligence (ISI)
continued to support various terrorist outfits to spread violence
in India, according to Indian Express. "As per available
intelligence inputs, Pakistan-based terrorist outfits, particularly
Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e- Mohammed, Hijbul Mujahideen etc., continue
to receive support from ISI," Union Minister of State for Home Jitendra
Singh informed Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament) in a written
reply.
On Pakistan-backed spy modules,
Singh said: "During the last three years and the current year (2008
to 2011 till date), a total of 46 Pakistan-backed espionage modules
were busted in the country". However, Singh said, no cases of espionage,
specifically by people working in foreign companies, have been reported.
Replying to another question, the
minister said as per available information, investigation into terrorism-related
cases by State Police Forces and disclosures of arrested people
revealed names of a few terrorist elements in Bihar having links
with LeT. "On the basis of inputs, four LeT operatives of Bihar
were identified and arrested between 2004 and 2009," he said.
Mohammed Qateel Siddiqui (27), originally
from Darbhanga (Bihar), was arrested from Delhi on November 22;
Gauhar Aziz Khomani (31), originally from Darbhanga (Bihar), was
arrested in Delhi on November 23; Gayur Ahmad Jamali (21), originally
from Madhubani (Bihar), was arrested from Darbhanga on November
24; Mohd Adil alias Ajmal (40), from Karachi, trained by
Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) as a shooter, and sent by the Bhatkal brothers
first to Nepal and then to India to recruit local Muslims for terror
attacks, was held from Madhubani on November 25; Abdur Rehman (19)
from Darbhanga, was arrested in Chennai on November 27; and Mohd
Irshad Khan (52) from Samastipur (Bihar) , was arrested in Chennai
on November 27. Khan's daughter was married to Yasin. It's in his
house in Okhla in Delhi, that Yasin is believed to have been staying
for at least six months. Security agencies are looking for four
others from Madhubani.
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October 19: NIA investigating the
September 7 Delhi blast, seized five mobile telephones of Wasim
Akram Malik, a Medical student, his two relatives and two associates
from Kishtwar and Jammu but another mobile telephone and a laptop
used by him at Dhaka, Bangladesh remained untraced. Two other seized
mobile telephones belonged to Abid Hussain and Hafiz Aamir Abbas
Dev, two Kishtwar students, who have already been arrested by the
NIA in connection with Delhi blast and terror emails sent thereafter.
Abid and Dev were arrested from Kishtwar while Wasim was arrested
from IGI Airport, New Delhi soon after he landed in the capital
from Dhaka. Three more accused in the blast-Junaid Akram Malik,
brother of Wasim, a Medical student at Dhaka, Aamir Malik alias
Akram and Jehangir Saroori, all three HM militants-were on hit list
of the NIA but they couldn't be traced. Police and NIA had reports
that Aamir Malik and Saroori had left for inaccessible heights of
Kishtwar while there were doubts over the movement of Junaid, who
could be anywhere. The recovery of three mobile phones and some
documents related to exchange of money indicates involvement of
Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) in the terror attack.
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September 14: A total of 323 militants
were killed from 1998 to 2002 when LeT and JeM outfits launched
a series of suicide attacks on military and police installations.
The four-year period coincided with eruption of Kargil war when
the influx of Pakistani militants affiliated to LeT and JeM increased
into the state.
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August 29: A top 'commander' of
JeM, identified as Iqram Bhai of Pakistan, was among two militants
killed in a gun-battle that raged at Mitergam village in Pulwama
District. The other slain militant was identified as Farooq Ahmad
Lone alias Tahir, son of Ghulam Hassan of Khandi Pakherpora Aglar,
Pulwama. The encounter lasted for several hours in which both sides
used automatic weapons.
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August 21: Meanwhile, General Officer
Commanding (GOC, 15 Corps) Syed Atta Muhammad Hasnain said that
militants are desperate and they will make more infiltration attempts
in next two months before the mountain peaks get closed with fresh
snowfall of the season. He said that there are around 500-700 militants
waiting at the launching pads in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK)
to infiltrate. "The militant infra-structure across the border is
still intact and the militants are desperate to infiltrate into
Kashmir," he added. He said that the security forces eliminated
around 20 top 'commanders' of various militant organizations especially
of the LeT in past two months. "After receiving severe blow, they
want to push in more militants to disturb peace in the Valley,"
he said, adding, "Security Forces are targeting the leadership of
JeM and LeT and our intelligence this year has been extremely good.
It is because of this that we achieved major successes this year
and their desperation to infiltrate has increased."
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August 18: Several outlawed Pakistan-based
terror groups remain active in Kashmir and continue to target and
plan attacks on India, a US report on global terrorism said, according
to Indian Express. Prominent among these terrorist groups are Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Harkat ul-Mujahideen (HuM), which
are having hundreds of armed supporters in Kashmir. LeT, designated
as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation in 2001, is one of the largest
and most proficient of the traditionally Kashmir-focused militant
groups. "It has the ability to severely disrupt already delicate
regional relation," said the State Department in its annual report
on terrorism. The actual size of LeT is unknown, but it has several
thousand members in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), Pakistan's
Punjab and in southern Jammu, Kashmir, and Doda regions. "Most LeT
members are Pakistanis or Afghans and/or veterans of the Afghan
wars. The group uses assault rifles, light and heavy machine guns,
mortars, explosives, and rocket-propelled grenades," the State Department
said. LeT maintains a number of facilities, including training camps,
schools, and medical clinics in Pakistan. It has global connections
and a strong operational network throughout South Asia, the State
Department said.
Based in Muzaffarabad, Rawalpindi,
and several other cities in Pakistan, HuM conducts insurgent and
terrorist operations primarily in Kashmir and Afghanistan. It trains
its militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Designated as a Foreign
Terrorist Organisation in 1997, HuM has conducted a number of operations
against Indian troops and civilian targets in Kashmir. HuM has several
hundred armed supporters located in PoK, and southern parts of Kashmir,
Doda regions, and in the Valley. "Supporters are mostly Pakistanis
and Kashmiris, but also include Afghans and Arab veterans of the
Afghan war," the report said, adding that it uses light and heavy
machine guns, assault rifles, mortars, explosives, and rockets.
JeM, designated as a Foreign Terrorist
Organisation in 2001, has at least several hundred armed supporters
- including a large cadre of former HuM members - located in Pakistan,
southern Kashmir and Doda regions and in the Valley.
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July 17: Defence spokesperson Lieutenant
Colonel J. S. Brar, identified the militants killed in July 15 encounter
in Kupwara as 'battalion commander', Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) Umair
alias Hafiz along with other four LeT Divisional Commanders.
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July 13: Six persons were injured
when an explosive device went off at Bonn Hanjan in the Rajpora
area of Pulwama District. Police said that the explosive material
was remnant of July 9 encounter that took place in the village and
in which two Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militants, including their 'divisional
commander', Ahsan Bhai, were killed. The house owner had pressed
an excavator into service for clearing the debris of the house damaged
in the encounter when a grenade left over by militants went off.
Police said six persons who were watching from a distance were injured
by the splinters.
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July 9: A top Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)
'commander', identified as Ahsan Bhai, and his associate, Javed
Ahmad Nengroo, were killed in a gun battle with Security Forces
(SFs) in Hanjan Payeen village Pulwama District on July 9. Ahsan
Bhai was active in the Kashmir valley for last 11 years and was
operating as divisional commander of JeM outfit for South Kashmir.
He was one of the most wanted militants in South Kashmir. Arms and
ammunition was also recovered from the possession of these two militants,
which included 2-AK 47 rifles, 6-AK magazines and 60 rounds of AK-ammunition.
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June 29: Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan
Singh said that said that militant outfits like Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) were offshoots of the Pakistani
intelligence agency Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). PM also said
that he would go to Pakistan but only when there was something "solid"
that he could achieve as a result of the visit. "We have a very
uncertain neighbourhood. A very uncertain international economic
environment. We have to swim and keep our heads high," he observed.
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June 8: Sopore in Baramulla District
is in the throes of a struggle between militants and Security Forces
(SFs). In the past month or so, some 15 people - 10 militants and
five civilians - have been killed in the area. Sopore is the ideological
heartland of militancy. An unidentified intelligence officer stated,
"The day support for militancy ends here, it`s finished. Sopore
is the key". Accordingly, the SFs have planned massive search operations
in coming days in Sopore. This was revealed by Director General
of Police (DGP), Kuldeep Khoda. He said, "There are reports of presence
of some 'commanders' of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammad
(JeM) in Sopore and adjoining areas. In coming days anti-militancy
operations will be intensified in the area."
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June 7: An un-named Senior Police
Officer stated last week, "There are no active militant bases in
Srinagar city. There is some presence of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM)
in peripheries of Budgam District and two militants are active in
the Ganderbal District".
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June 6: From a confidential cable
dated August 21, 2009 sent by the American Embassy in Beijing to
Washington, it has come to light that Chinese authorities had place
a technical hold on an Indian request to impose sanctions on three
high-ranking Pakistan-based operatives of the Laskhar-e-Toiba (LeT)
and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM). According to the cable, the Indian request
to list three militants, namely, Abdul Rahman Makki (brother of
LeT/JuD leader Hafiz Saeed and the number two man in the LeT hierarchy),
Azam Cheema (LeT intelligence chief and a key advisor of its senior
leader Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi) and Mohammad Masood Azhar Alvi (the
founder of the JeM) under the United Nations Security Council Resolution
1267 was vetoed by China on the grounds of lack of sufficient information
to merit such action. According to the U.S. State Department, China's
hold on listing the three terrorists was done at the behest of Pakistan
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May 26: SFs killed two Jaish-e-Mohammed
(JeM) militants including a 'divisional commander' Qari Zubair in
an encounter at Keller area of Shopian in Baramulla District.
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May 9: Inter-twining between Kashmiri
militancy and al-Qaeda is visible from the interrogation details
of many Pakistani prisoners who were in Guantanamo Bay on suspicion
of being al-Qaida and Taliban members. Interrogation details of
69 Pakistani prisoners are available from Wikileaks. The intermingling
between Kashmiri militancy and al-Qaeda raises the possibility of
Qaeda putting more focus on India in future. Many Pakistani prisoners
in the US military prison, such as Abdul Sedar Nafeesi [militant
of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islam (HuJI)], Abdul Sattar [both Harkat-ul-Mujahideen
(HuM) and HuJI] and Abdul Halim Sadiqi and his brother Abdullah
Sadiqi [both cadres of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM)] have significant
focus on Kashmir. The US interrogation report rates JeM as a Tier
1 target, which is a designated terror group having state support.
The interrogation report said JeM was aligned with the pro-Taliban
political party Jamiat-i-Ulema-i Islam (JUI-F).
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May 3: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram,
said that the death of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden would not
mean the end of terror and India would have to be "very vigilant"
until Pakistan dismantled terror infrastructure within its territory.
"The terrorist organizations that threaten us like Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT), Hizb-ul -Mujahideen (HM) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) continue
to threaten India and plot against India. As long as Pakistan entertains
these terror outfits and does not dismantle the terror infrastructure,
we will have to be very vigilant," Chidambaram was quoted saying.
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April 27: The files of every Pakistani
detainee held at Guantanamo Bay were released by WikiLeaks which
reveal the linkages between political and religious leaders calling
on Pakistanis to join the ‘jihad’ (holy war) in Afghanistan. In
their assessments, detainees pointed to public speeches made at
rallies by Jama’at-e-Islami (JI) leader Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Jama’at
Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman. In one detainee’s
file, JUI was assessed to be a ‘terrorist organisation’ that operates
in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Qazi and Fazl were cited as holding
“organised public rallies for the purpose of soliciting supporters
and volunteers to participate in the jihad against the United States
(US) and Northern Alliance”. While most detainees appeared to have
been recruited by the Harkatul Jihad al Islami (HuJI), Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), others had gone to Afghanistan
to look for work and were recruited by the Taliban as cooks and
drivers. One detainee said he had decided to “leave for jihad in
Afghanistan after hearing Mufti Atique speak in Karachi in late
September 2001”. The role of the alleged ‘rogue’ Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI) units in detaining suspects at Guantánamo Bay
and in the fighting in Afghanistan has been stated by several detainees.
Another detainee Ziaul Shah told authorities that his direct supervisor
in the Afghan Taliban was a man named Qari Saleem, who may have
been Qari Saleem Ahmed, the commander of the Punjab Chapter of Taliban
in Kunduz city of northern Afghanistan. He was reportedly arrested
around 1999 for being a member of the Harkatul Mujahideen (HM),
HuJI and LeT with “connections to subversive elements of the ISI”.
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April 27: The files of every Pakistani
detainee held at Guantanamo Bay were released by WikiLeaks which
reveal the linkages between political and religious leaders calling
on Pakistanis to join the ‘jihad’ (holy war) in Afghanistan. In
their assessments, detainees pointed to public speeches made at
rallies by Jama’at-e-Islami (JI) leader Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Jama’at
Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman. In one detainee’s
file, JUI was assessed to be a ‘terrorist organisation’ that operates
in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Qazi and Fazl were cited as holding
“organised public rallies for the purpose of soliciting supporters
and volunteers to participate in the jihad against the United States
(US) and Northern Alliance”. While most detainees appeared to have
been recruited by the Harkatul Jihad al Islami (HuJI), Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), others had gone to Afghanistan
to look for work and were recruited by the Taliban as cooks and
drivers. One detainee said he had decided to “leave for jihad in
Afghanistan after hearing Mufti Atique speak in Karachi in late
September 2001”. The role of the alleged ‘rogue’ Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI) units in detaining suspects at Guantánamo Bay
and in the fighting in Afghanistan has been stated by several detainees.
Another detainee Ziaul Shah told authorities that his direct supervisor
in the Afghan Taliban was a man named Qari Saleem, who may have
been Qari Saleem Ahmed, the commander of the Punjab Chapter of Taliban
in Kunduz city of northern Afghanistan. He was reportedly arrested
around 1999 for being a member of the Harkatul Mujahideen (HM),
HuJI and LeT with “connections to subversive elements of the ISI”.
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April 13: The General Officer Commanding
(GOC), Romeo Force, Rashtriya Rifles (RR) K A S Bhullar said in
Poonch that militant training camps still exist in Pakistan which
supports infiltration into Jammu and Kashmir. General Bhullar said
that the Army has stepped up vigil in the region. Earlier, banned
militant outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) threatened the locals from
participating in the village council elections in the state. The
GOC said that the Army had provided security so that election process
could be undertaken peacefully and safely.
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April 13: Pakistani authorities
refuted the Chilean Police's claim of having arrested the brother
of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) ‘chief’ Maulana Masood Azhar, accused
of coordinating the hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane on December
24, 1999, saying the Chilean authorities had nabbed someone else.
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April 11: A person suspected to
be a key conspirator in the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane IC-814(December
24, 1999) was arrested in Chile. Highly-placed sources in the Government
and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said that the Chilean
Police informed the CBI that they had detained a person identified
as Abdul Rauf and that there was also an Interpol Red Corner notice
pending against him. The sources said that the Chilean Police had
also sent his finger prints for verification but the CBI expressed
its inability as neither Rauf's picture nor his finger prints was
available with the investigation agency. A team would be soon going
to Chile to ascertain his identity as well as question him, the
sources said, adding some help from western friendly intelligence
agencies was likely to be taken in this connection. Abdul Rauf wanted
by the CBI is the brother-in-law of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) ‘Chief’
Maulana Masood Azhar and was among the main conspirators in the
hijacking of Indian Airlines plane from Kathmandu. The JeM chief
was among the three terrorists exchanged for the plane and over
160 passengers after eight-days of negotiations carried out at Kandhahar,
a city in Southern Afghanistan.
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April 6: Expressing apprehension
that the United States is being "taken for suckers" and
"looked at as patsies" by Pakistan, two American lawmakers
called for strengthening ties with India even as a White House report
gave a harshly critical assessment of Islamabad's effort to defeat
extremism. "After 10 years of hearing the same sales pitch
I tend to doubt it. I doubt that our money is buying anything that's
deep or durable," New York Congressman Gary Ackerman said at
a hearing. "I doubt the leaders in the Afghanistan Government
and the Pakistani Government are going to do anything except pursue
their own narrow, venal self interests. I doubt the ISI will ever
stop working with us during the day and going to see their not-so-secret
friends in the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) or Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and
other terrorist groups at night."
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March 10: Jammu and Kashmir Police
killed Sajjad Afghani alias Qari Hamaad the ‘Commander-in-Chief’of
Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) along with his bodyguard Umar Bilal in an
encounter on the foreshore road in the outskirts of Srinagar. Two
Police Constables and a woman were also injured in a brief encounter.
The incident took place on the foreshore road that connects Hazratbal
area with tourist importance place of Nishat in Srinagar. A cache
of arms and ammunition were recovered from the possession of the
slain militants including one AK-47 rifle, eight grenades, one Under
Barrel Grenade Launcher (UBGL) and some magazines. Sajjad Afghani
hailed from Balochistan of Pakistan. He was involved in master minding
the Qamarwari militant attack on November 29, 2010 in which three
JeM militants were killed. The ‘Commander’ had sent militants who
were killed at Maloora in the outskirts of Srinagar in October 2010.
He was also responsible for an attack in Pattan in Baramulla District
2010 and masterminded the attack carried on the residence of Superintendent
of Police (SP) Sopore in Baramulla District on December 5, 2010.
He was also actively perusing the regrouping of JeM militants in
Tarzoo area and was active in Sopore, Rafiabad and Zainageer areas
of Baramulla District. He had of late shifted to Srinagar and was
planning to carry out operations in the City.
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March 2: A Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM)
militant, identified as Shabir Ahmad Khan alias Shabir Gujjar, was
killed while an Army Major received injuries in a day-long gunfight
in Awantipora area of Pulwama District. Army and Police cordoned
off Dadsar village in Awantipora, following information about the
presence of militants in the area. In the ensuing gun battle, the
militant belonging to Ladiyar area of Tral Block (administrative
division) was killed and his body was recovered later. An Army Major,
identified as Major Kuliya was injured in the encounter.
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January 6: Five Jaish-e-Mohammed
(JeM) militants were sentenced to life imprisonment by a trial court
in New Delhi connection with Millenium Park encounter case (August
30, 2003). While sentencing the convicts, identified as Noor Mohammad
Tantre, Pervaiz Ahmed Mir, Faroz Ahmed Bhat and brothers Atiq-uz-Zama
and Raees-uz-Zama, arrested by Delhi Police, Additional Session
Judge R K Gauba also imposed a fine of INR 50,000 on each of them.
The court handed down life imprisonment on seven counts. The accused
were convicted under Prevention of Anti- terrorist Act (POTA).
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January 2: A Delhi court convicted
five Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) militants, for waging war against the
country and being involved in spreading terror. Additional Sessions
Judge R K Gauba held Noor Mohammad Tantre, Pervaiz Ahmed Mir, Faroz
Ahmed Bhat, Atiq-uz-Zama and Raees-uz-Zama, guilty under the stringent
anti-terror law Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA).They were also
pronounced guilty under various Sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC)
relating to waging war against the country and under the Explosives
Substance Act. All these five convicts were arrested by the Delhi
Police on August 30-31, 2003 following an encounter.
2010
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December 27: An activist of Jaish-e-Muhammad
(JeM) and his minor daughter were shot dead near the Karachi airport
in sectarian violence.
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December 13: Hectic activity is
being observed across the Line of Control (LoC) and International
Border (IB) in Jammu sector where Pakistan Army and ‘commanders’
of the different militant outfits have set up launching pads to
push the militants into this side. "… number of the militants
camping at launching pads near LoC and IB on Pakistan side has constantly
been rising. Most of them were the cadre of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT),
Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen’’, official sources
said. Nearly 60 per cent of the militants stranded at the launching
pads were foreigners, they added.
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December 2: The US Treasury Department
sanctioned three Pakistanis who were acting on behalf of terrorist
outfits and banned Americans from any dealings with them. It was
reported that Amanullah Afridi and Matiur-Rehman were supporters
of LeJ, and said Abdul Rauf Azhar was acting on behalf of JeM. Treasury
Department described the LeJ and JeM as "Pakistan-based terrorist
organizations."
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November 30: A cadre of a banned
outfit JeM, Muzaffar (24), was shot dead by two unidentified assailants
outside his house within the limits of Sir Syed Police Station in
North Karachi of Sindh. DSP Altaf Hussain said the victim was a
religious teacher. He was also a member of Al-Rehmat Trust, a frontal
organisation of JeM.
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November 4: The US imposed sanctions
on two Pakistan-based militant outfits and a key militant leader
for November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. The Treasury Department
said it targeted the financial and support networks of LeT and JeM.
It also took action against Azam Cheema, saying he had helped train
operatives for the November 2008 Mumbai attacks and was the "mastermind"
behind the July 2006 Mumbai train bombings carried out by LeT. The
targets also included leaders of LeT and JeM, as well as Al Rehmat
Trust, an "operational front" for JeM, the department
said in a statement.
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October 24: About 1400 militants
from different parts of the State with majority of them drawn from
Kashmir Valley were still putting up in training camps of various
outfits in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). Some of
them have been readied by Pakistan Army and Inter Services Intelligence
(ISI) to push them into the Indian side from the Line of Control
(LoC) and International Border (IB). This has been disclosed by
Abdul Waris alias Tauseef Illahi son of Abdul Rashid Sheikh, a resident
of Kishtwar and Musarat Hussain Zargar alias Firdous son of Ghulam
Qadir, a resident of Gandoh, Doda, the two close confidant of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen
(HM) supremo Syed Salahuddin during their continued interrogation
by the Special Operations Group (SOG), Jammu. They have disclosed
that majority of 1400 militants from Jammu and Kashmir were affiliated
with Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and HM outfits while the number of Jaish-e-Mohammed
(JeM) militants has considerably gone down as its cadre have mostly
diverted to the LeT outfit. According to them, some new militant
groups have also cropped up in Pakistan and PoK but their strength
was not much significant.
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October 22: The death toll in the
encounter with Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militants at Malroo in Srinagar
rose to three after Security Forces (SFs) recovered the dead body
of another militant. They said the search of the debris at Malroo
was started early in the morning to locate the third militant. According
to preliminary investigation, the slain militant was one of the
top ‘commanders’ of JeM and identified as Asadullah Bhai. As reported
earlier, two JeM militants were killed in the encounter on October
21, while the third was believed to be killed.
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October 22: Nearly 80 trained militants,
armed with sophisticated weapons, are waiting to sneak into Jammu
and Kashmir from across the border along the Line of Control (LoC)
to create trouble in the State in the run up to American President
Barack Obama's visit to India early November, 2010. Intelligence
inputs, available with security agencies, pointed out that the militants,
belonging to Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), Al Badar,
Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) and other terror groups, are looking for
opportunities to cross over to Jammu and Kashmir. "The next
10 days are very crucial. We have information that the militants
will try to engage in violence in the run up to the US president's
visit to India," a Government official said.
The official said, "Militants
may also try to attack security forces and public properties before
or during the shift of government machinery from Srinagar to Jammu,
the winter capital of the State, on November 4 and 5". "At
present, there are about 500 active militants in the State, and
there also is need for us to step up vigil in the border areas as
the threat of infiltration persists," Jammu and Kashmir's Director
General of Police Kuldeep Khoda told reporters in Srinagar on October
21. "The leadership of various outfits such as Hizb-ul-Mujahideen,
Lashkar-e-Toiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, HUJI [Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami]
had done recess along the LoC to plan infiltration. The HM supreme
and United Jihad Council (UJC) Chief Syed Sallaudin also visited
camps to morally boost his cadres along the Indo-Pak border some
time back," the sources said.
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October 21: The Security Forces
shot dead two militants of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) who were on
a mission to target the Army Headquarters of 15 Corps at Badamibagh
cantonment and another camp at Haft Chinar in Srinagar, the summer
capital of Jammu and Kashmir. Troops launched a search cum cordon
operation in the Malroo locality on Srinagar-Bandipora road late
in the night of October 20 after receiving information about presence
of at least three JeM militants in the house of one Abdul Majid
Bhat, official sources said. The SFs started house-to-house search
in the morning of October 21 and came under firing from the militants
hiding inside the target house.
Later, the SFs pounded two houses
with mortars in the evening, resulting in the killing of two militants
in the first house. The third militant is believed to be buried
under the debris of second house, which will be searched today (October
22). "During initial investigations, the slain militants have
been identified as Yusuf Bhai and Mumtaz," a Police spokesman
said. He said Yusuf Bhai was an improvised explosive device expert
(IED) expert and both the slain militants were highly trained. "According
to Police sources, they had plans to carry out fidayeen attacks
on Security Force establishments in and around Srinagar," he
added. Senior Police officials said the militants were trying to
infiltrate into the city in order to carry out attacks, hoping to
catch the security apparatus off guard as it has been busy dealing
with street violence since June 11, 2010. This is the first militant
attack in Srinagar since January 6 suicide attack by militants in
Lal Chowk area of the City.
A JeM ‘commander’ said the militants
were on a mission to attack Army installations, including the headquarters
of Army's 15 Corps at Badamibagh in Srinagar. ”The three ultras
were part of six fidayeen (suicide) militants who were assigned
the job of carrying out attacks on Badamibagh cantonment and Haft
Chinar Army camp in Srinagar," operational chief of JeM Sajjad
Afghani said in a statement to local media. He said ‘commander’
Yusuf Badni, Qari Mumtaz, Asadullah Afghani, Saiful Islam Baber
and Osama were to carry out attacks in Srinagar and uniform, vehicles,
communication equipment and logistic support was provided to them.
"An informer tipped off Police and Qari Mumtaz and Asadullah
Afghani were killed in Malroo encounter," Afghani added. He
threatened that the outfit will carry out attacks on the Army installations
in the city and elsewhere in the Valley in near future.
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October 5: Militants of several
groups, including the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM)
and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), are waiting along the Line of Control
(LoC) in a bid to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir, an unnamed
senior army official. "Operatives of several militant groups
including JeM are positioned along the LoC and making desperate
attempts everyday to cross the border. There are eight to nine militants
in each group who keep attempting to get a chance to sneak into
our territory," he said. He also noted that once they fail
to succeed at one place due to high alertness of Indian troops,
they immediately move to other locations to make a fresh attempt.
He further pointed out, "Pakistan Security Forces are clearly
involved in supporting terrorist activities to create insecurity
in Jammu and Kashmir, especially in Jammu region."
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September 5: Security Forces (SFs)
shot dead a ‘divisional commander’ of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM),
Omar Khitab, a Pakistani national, and arrested his close local
aide, Zubair Ahmed, from Bhatti Dhar atop Sakhi Maidaan in the Mendhar
tehsil (revenue unit) of Poonch District. ‘‘The operation was over
within two hours. One of the militant was eliminated and his lieutenant
captured. Only one Army jawan [trooper] sustained injuries in the
operation'', official sources said. A dismissed constable of Central
Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Abdul Khaliq, in whose house the militant
had been hiding, has also been arrested along with his son Saddam
Hussain. The arrested militant, Zubair Ahmed, was younger son of
Khaliq and had earlier also been arrested for providing Subscriber
Identification Module (SIM) cards to JeM ‘commanders’. In addition
to arms, mobile phones, SIM cards, identity cards and over INR 60,000
were seized from the militants, both killed and arrested. Omar Khitab
was the third JeM ‘divisional commander’, who has been killed by
SFs in Poonch District after Dawood and Parvat Shikari, all Pakistanis.
Khitab, who had succeeded Parvat Shikari, was believed to be an
inhabitant of Lahore.
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August 25: As many as 390 suspects,
detained on the charge of having links with banned militant outfits,
are to be released soon. Officials of the Home Department, Punjab
Police and Prisons Department confirmed as many as 390 activists
belonging to banned outfits like Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP),
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami
(HuJI), Al-Asar Trust, Jamiatul Furqan and some other banned militant
outfits working in previous or new, and fake, names had been detained
during the crackdown.
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August 22: The Police arrested two
persons, identified as Mohammad Adnan and Shah Jahan alias Munna,
for their associations with LeJ and JeM after an alleged encounter
in Korangi in Karachi.
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August 4: The Karachi Police and
the Intelligence Bureau is investigating the role of a top leader
of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Qari Muhammad Zafar alias
Ustad-e-Fidayeen, in the assassination of MQM leader Raza Haider.
Zafar is a senior leader of the Fidayeen-e-Islam, an alliance between
the TTP and anti-Shia Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Muhammad. The
group was based in South Waziristan and has moved to North Waziristan
only recently.
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July 30: The Crime Investigation
Department (CID) of the Sindh Police arrested two persons allegedly
associated with the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) at Shershah area in Karachi.
The arrested persons were identified as Mohammad Rizwan and Mohammad
Daud. Two TT pistols and several rounds of ammunitions were recovered
from their possessions. CID (Investigations) Superintendent of Police
Mazhar Mashwani said that both militants are affiliated with the
JeM, and accused of providing shelter and weapons to their other
associates.
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July 17: Two militants of the Jaish-e-Mohammed
(JeM) were detained under Public Safety Act (PSA) by the district
administration in Udhampur. The militants include Talib Hussain
alias Abu Kaleem Ullah and Abdul Hamid. They had been arrested few
days back.
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July 9: The Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT)
is a growing threat to the US and the Western world. The report
by the US-based organisation, Investigative Project on Terrorism.
The report details growing cooperation among LeT and al-Qaeda and
other terrorist groups, the Afghan Taliban, Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP),
Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM).
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July 5: A national TV channel and
Intelligence sources reported that United Liberation Front of Asom
(ULFA) ‘commander-in-chief’ Paresh Baruah was provided safe home
in Pakistan by Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). A section of anti-Awami
League (AL) elements in the SFs helped ISI to ferry out the ULFA
commander. He is also believed to be in touch with Jaish-e-Mohammed
(JeM), Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) to launch
‘sleeper cells’ in the State.
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July 5: The Punjab Government on
banned 23 militant organisations operating under new names after
having been outlawed and directed Police to keep a strict vigil
on 1,690 office-bearers and workers of the outfits after including
them in Schedule 4. Jaish-i-Muhammad (JeM) was banned by the Musharraf
Government in 2002, but it started activities with new name of Alfurqan
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July 4: The Punjab Home Department
has decided to launch a crackdown on 17 banned outfits in the province
and formed task forces at the district level to oversee the operations.
The task forces will crackdown on secret hideouts of these outfits
and apprehend their members. They will also trace out financing
sources of the organisations including Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM).
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June 21: The rising number of Pakistan
linked terrorist plots in the United States largely stem from Islamabad's
(Pakistan) continued support to some anti-India extremist groups
like Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), blamed for the November 26, 2008 Mumbai
terrorist attacks, indicates the report released by the RAND Corporation.
"The country's acquisition of nuclear weapons emboldened its
support to militant groups by dampening concerns of retaliation
by India," the report mentioned. Seth G. Jones, the study's
co-author and a political scientist at RAND said, "A number
of militant networks-including al Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad
[JeM]-remain entrenched in Pakistan and pose a grave threat to the
state and the region."
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June 16: A JeM, identified as Owais,
cadre was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Karachi in Sindh.
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June 3: The Rapid Action Battalion
(RAB) arrested two people, Mohiuddin Ahmed and his brother Salahuddin
Ahmed, on charge of providing shelter to the militants of Pakistan-based
militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) from outskirts of Dhaka.
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May 31: Two suspected foreign militants
were killed during an encounter with SFs at Sopore area in Baramulla
District. Even as the identity of the slain militants could not
be ascertained, unconfirmed reports suggested that they belonged
to the banned Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) outfit.
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May 30: The Pakistan Government
will eliminate militants from all parts of the country, including
southern Punjab, as they have started sneaking into other parts
of the country from there and measures are being taken to deal with
them, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said. Malik said 29 religious
organisations had been banned and two top groups, the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
(LeJ) and the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), had become a part of the Tehreek-e-Taliban
Pakistan (TTP).
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May 27: The Jammu and Kashmir Government
revoked the detention orders of 25 Pakistani militants lodged in
different jails of India to facilitate their return to their country.
The State Government acted late in the night of May 27 on the advice
of the home ministry, which asked that the militants be released.
“Their detention orders under the Public Safety Act (a law that
allows the Government to keep people in jail without trial for two
years) have been revoked and they would be sent to Wagah in Punjab
for their return to Pakistan”. Some of them were involved in acts
of terror, the sources said, but did not specify the exact nature
of crime committed by them. Some of them were lodged in jails outside
Jammu and Kashmir for security reasons. Most of the militants were
of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen
(HM) outfits, adds Daily Excelsior.
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May 26: A conversation between a
HM ‘commander’ to one of the outfit's leaders based in PoK intercepted
recently by security agencies revealed that 53 self-styled ‘commanders’
from different outfits - 22 of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), 23 of
the HM, five of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), one of the Harkat-ul-Jehadi
Islami (HuJI) and one of Al Badr were killed in 2009, which included
top ‘Divisional Commanders’ of JeM. As many as 37 militants were
killed in 2010 till May 15, they said, adding, it included 22 ‘commanders’
of the HM, LeT and JeM.
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May 16: The Punjab Police has officially
admitted for the first time the movement of the Taliban (Tehreek-e-Taliban
Pakistan, TTP) militants and gradual expansion of their network
in southern Punjab and their fund-raising and recruitment drive
in the province. The Jhang city Police has filed an FIR on the basis
of their human intelligence, depicting the grim realities of Talibanisation
in the Punjab. The report filed against the District head of Jaish-e-Mohammed
(JeM), discloses that Taliban (TTP) ‘commanders’ often come to the
city on their way to southern Punjab and that the network of Taliban
(TTP) is fast expanding in the region.
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May 14: Hundreds of militants fleeing
from the restive northwest have taken refuge in the teeming commercial
hub of Karachi, where a growing nexus with militant outfit is a
headache for law enforcers. According to security officials, a huge
Pashtun population, mostly in the suburbs of the city of 18 million
people, provides shelter to these militants. The arrest of dozens
of low-key members of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) from
the metropolis is evidence of their presence, officials say, and
they have developed close ties to banned outfits like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
(LeJ), Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) and Jundullah as well as criminals.
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May 12: The arrested Hizb-ul-Mujahideen
(HM) militant-cum-trainer Mohammad Ashraf, has said thousands of
misguided Kashmiri youth are still receiving training in camps in
Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). He disclosed that LeT and HM were
the only two dominant outfits to whom majority of militants were
affiliated at present in PoK while Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), once
a force to reckon with in Pakistan, has virtually been rendered
irrelevant with very few cadre. Only a couple of Jaish training
camps were now active in PoK.
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May 7: The intelligence agencies
in Karachi have released several alleged militants who were detained
over their potential links with Faisal Shahzad. Two Jaish-e-Mohammed
(JeM) members, Shahid and Inam, who were arrested from Sector 11
of Orangi Town in Karachi, were among those released. They were
sent back to their homes on May 7-night after they were found innocent,
the sources said, adding that besides the JeM men, some others had
also been released.
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April 27: Pakistan-based militant
outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) is making concerted efforts to carry
out attacks in India and to develop links in Maldives and other
neighbours, the Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Maken told
Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament). The Minister also said some
of the prominent groups which pose a serious threat also include
Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM).
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April 21: The Jammu and Kashmir
Police arrested Mohammad Ahsan Antoo, the head of the little-known
body called Human Rights Forum, hours before he was to organise
a conference to be tele-addressed by the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) founder
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar
and HM chief Syed Salahuddin. JeM’s Masood Azhar and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen
chief Syed Salahuddin were also going to address this gathering
through phone.
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April 18: Foreign militants are
still suspected to have been obtaining Bangladeshi passports using
false information to leave the country to escape or have training
and take part in 'Jihad'”. Law enforcers investigating the matter
said their suspicion became firm after learning that a suspected
Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) operative left Bangladesh either for Singapore
or India using a Bangladeshi passport.
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April 5: A militant, identified
as Javaid Ahmad Chesti alias Nanna Chesti, was arrested by Police
near Islamia College in the Gojwara area of the Srinagar city. According
to sources, Chesti was a member of now-defunct Students Liberation
Front (SLF) in the early days of militancy in Kashmir. He was arrested
and after his release several years ago, he had given up arms to
lead to normal life. However, he told the Police, that he was wooed
back to militancy recently as efforts were on to revive the Al Umar
Mujahideen militant group in the city by recruiting fresh youth
into militancy and to recycle those who had given up arms earlier.
Al Umar Mujahideen, an outfit which was believed to be the armed
wing of Awami Action Committee headed by Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, is
headed by Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar alias Latram. The chief ‘commander’
of the outfit was arrested by Security Forces in mid-1990s and released,
along with Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Maulana Azhar Masood and
British militant Omar Sheikh, in exchange of the hijacked Indian
Airlines plane from Kathmandu to Kabul (IC-814) in December 1999.
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April 1: The US on April 1 called
on Pakistan to curb anti-India militants, praising Islamabad's recent
efforts against extremism but saying it could do more to improve
ties with New Delhi. Robert Blake, the Assistant Secretary of State
for South Asia was referring to banned groups such as the Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT), which India holds responsible for a 2008 assault on Mumbai
and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), believed to have joined LeT in a 2001
attack on the Indian Parliament.
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March 29: The Army said that nearly
550 terrorists were operative in the Jammu and Kashmir, including
around 250 in Jammu region, while 200-250 others were waiting at
different launch pads across the Line of Control (LoC) to enter
the Indian territory to help the depleted rank and file of militant
organizations in launching offensive. the Jammu region has been
by and large peaceful and so far, in the first three months of 2010,
24 militants, including 11 ‘commanders’ belonging to the Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Harkut-ul-Jehad
Islami (HUJI) have been eliminated in different anti-militancy operations
with the least of collateral damage.
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March 29: As revealed by different
detained foreign militants, 15 foreign militant organisations were
active or are still operating in Bangladesh since 1991 using the
country as a safe shelter or transit to infiltrate neighbouring
countries. It also includes Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM). The statements
of detained militants also reveal agents of a Pakistani intelligence
agency not only coordinated the militants'' activities in Bangladesh
but also provided them with necessary funds and training.
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March 16: Ittehad Al Salasa Al Jehadi,
a hitherto unknown militant amalgam of three lesser known groups,
claimed responsibility for the March 16 Srinagar attack as well
as the grenade explosion on March 14 that killed a Para-military
trooper and left five injured. A spokesman of the amalgam, comprising
Al Nasireen, Farzandaan-e-Millat and Shuhada Brigade, said they
carried out the attack at Koker Bazaar (March 16) and Zaina Kadal
(March 14). "People should stay away from places where troops
are deployed either individually on in large number. Any civilian
getting injured in such attacks will be responsible for his or her
own safety," the spokesman told media persons over phone. The
grenade attack was claimed by Save Kashmir Movement militant outfit,
which is believed to be a joint brigade of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT),
Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM).
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March 12: Authorities declared red
alert at sensitive installations after the reported entrance of
an explosive-laden car in the Lahore. Meanwhile, the law enforcement
agencies warned the authorities concerned that 19 militants were
deputed in 12 cities of the province will most likely target National
Accountability Bureau (NAB) offices and anti-terrorism courts (ATC).
Sources said that a letter had also been forwarded to the authorities
concerned, mentioning that some defunct organisations, including
Commander Maulana Abdul Jabbar’s fraction of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM),
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI), Harkat-ul-Mujahideen
(HuM) and Harkat ul-Ansar (HuA), have also joined the Tehreek-e-Taliban
Pakistan (TTP).
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March 8: The Jammu and Kashmir Police
claimed that militant outfits Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI) and
Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) have been rooted out of the Jammu region.
Ashok Gupta, Inspector General of Police (IGP, Jammu Zone) said
it was due to "surgical strikes" in south of Pir Panjal
in the State. He said under "surgical strikes", the Police
used two types of planning — "Track and Target" and "Scout,
Seek and Kill"— in neutralising the top leadership of the HuJI,
JeM and HM outfits in Doda, Kishtwar, Poonch, Reasi and Rajouri
Districts of the region. Under the strategy, a large number of Special
Operation Groups (SOGs) generated critical real-time information
and conducted meticulous operations in high-altitude areas, he said.
"Instead of big SOG teams of 20 to 30 members, we formed small
teams of five to six men," he said. He said as part of their
strategy, the Police targeted militant sympathisers, including women.
"We have identified 16 women sympathisers of militants in Doda
District and another six in Kishtwar District. Now, the process
has started in Rajouri-Poonch Districts," Gupta said.
He further said that as of now 20
percent militants in Jammu and Kashmir are without guns adding,
"So our strategy will be to see that they (militants) don’t
get these things from across the border, from normal channels...
money, persons or weapons. That is our strategy we are working at."
Claiming that that around 180 militants were active in the Jammu,
he said, "However, they (militants) were running out of weapons
due to the loss of their cadre in the last two months. We targeted
OGW’s be it ladies or others. We have booked many of them to send
our message loud and clear." He described the killing of top
JeM ‘commander’ Dawood as the biggest achievement of the Police.
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March 7: Detained Jaish-e Mohammed
(JeM) coordinator for Bangladesh Rezwan Ahmed disclosed to investigators
the ''identities'' and ''whereabouts'' of three other Pakistani
terrorists who are his accomplices. Rezwan said the three- Sohel,
Ali and Zawad- came to Bangladesh with him in August 2009, for crossing
over to India for terrorist activities. Of them, Sohel and Ali have
already returned to Pakistan while Zawad left for Singapore after
over two months'' stay in Bangladesh, he said.
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March 5: Nannu Mia alias Belal Mandal
alias Billal, a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist, who was arrested
by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Dhaka on February 28, admitted
that he made safe passages for several terrorists, who were involved
in 1999 Indian plane hijacking, to India from Bangladesh.
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February 28: Five militants of the
Pakistan-based militant outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) were arrested
in Dhaka.
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February 18: Two Jaish-e-Mohammad
(JeM) militants were killed in an encounter with the Security Forces
(SFs) at village Shankarpora in the Pulwama District. The SFs cordoned
off the village in the evening of February 17 following receipt
of information about presence of at least two JeM militants and
launched house to house searches but did not find the militants
till late in the night. The cordon continued and the searches were
resumed in the morning of February 18. As the SFs were zeroing in
on the house, where the militants were hiding, the militants opened
indiscriminate firing resulting in an encounter that lasted for
several hours. Senior Superintendent of Police (Pulwama) Kifayat
Haider said that the slain militants belonged to the JeM outfit,
adding, "Two bodies of the slain militants and two rifles -
one AK-47 and one AK-74 have been recovered from the scene of encounter."
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February 17: Two Jaish-e-Mohammad
(JeM) militants, holed up in a house, were killed at Kuchwa Muqam
village of Chandoosa by the Security Forces (SFs) on February 17.
Intense firing and powerful blasts rattled the village, located
on Baramulla-Gulmarg road during the encounter which started at
around 7am (IST) and lasted for 11 hours. The residential house,
where the militants had taken shelter, was also damaged. Senior
Superintendent of Police (SSP, Baramulla) Shakeel Ahmad Beigh said
the village was cordoned off in the night of February 16 and the
firing started when the militants refused to surrender. The house
where the militants were hiding caught fire at around 3pm, shortly
after a powerful blast which was reportedly triggered by the SFs
to eliminate the militants, official sources said. 15 minutes later,
another powerful blast ripped through the house, the sources said,
adding, SFs set off a third explosion at around 5pm, razing down
the structure to neutralise the militants holed up there. The SSP
told that the slain militants belonged to JeM outfit. "Two
rifles, four hand grenades and some ammunition have been recovered
from the scene of the encounter," he added.
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February 8: the Police arrested
a higher secondary class student of a Government school in Kalaban
area of Mendhar tehsil (revenue unit) in Poonch District for his
links with Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) ‘chief’ for Poonch Aziz Ali alias
Parbhat Shikari alias Tipu, who was shot dead by the Army and Police
on February 3.
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February 3: SFs shot dead a Jaish-e-Mohammed
(JeM) 'commander', identified as Aziz Ali alias Parbhat Shikari
alias Tipu, a resident of the Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), at
Nukar Di Bawli in Chunga area of Mendhar in Poonch District. However,
Abu Atish, an associate of Aziz Ali, managed to escape from the
encounter site. Aziz Ali had taken over the command of JeM leadership
after the killing of its 'commander' Dawood Khan by SFs on January
17. Recoveries made from the site include eight SIM cards, two Nokia
mobile phones, one AK-47 rifle, three magazines, 111 rounds, one
radio set, one religious book, three matrix sheets, INR 1460 and
two HE 36 grenades.
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January 20: An Improvised Explosive
Device (IED) was detected and defused by the Army outside Dak Bungalow
at Mendhar in Poonch District in the morning. According to sources,
the IED was planted by the militants of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) outfit
to take revenge of the killing of their chief Abdullah Sani alias
Dawood by Army and Police on January 17.
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January 18: The Special investigation
Team (SIT) of Hyderabad Police arrested ‘south India commander’
of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), identified as Shaik Abdul Khaja alias
Amjad, from Afzalgunj area of the city. Police said that the arrestee
was linked to Mohammed Abdul Shahid Bilal, key suspect in the May
2007 Mecca Masjid bombing. Hyderabad Police Commissioner B. Prasada
Rao said that Amjad was a resident of Moosaram Bagh and has been
absconding since 2005. Amjad, who also goes by the noms de guerre
of Saif, Pappu and Abdullah, is accused of having close links with
other terrorist groups like the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI)
and the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM),
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January 17: The Army and Police
shot dead Jaish-e-Mohammed's (JeM's) ‘divisional commander’ for
Poonch District, Abdullah Sani alias Dawood Khan, a Pakistani national,
in a gun-battle at Narol forests in Mendhar tehsil (revenue unit)
of Poonch District. Dawood Khan belonged to Dabowal in Pakistan.
He was also operating with code name of Sheikh and was active in
Poonch District for last about a decade. Dawood was also co-ordinating
activities of all militant outfits and was involved in luring youths
into militancy. Meanwhile, there were reports that Dawood's two
body-guards were still trapped in the area and were being searched
by the Security Forces (SFs). One AK-56 rifle with three magazines,
one I Com radio set, a mobile telephone, five identity cards of
different agencies, a holy book, one pouch, one currency note of
INR 1000 and three of INR 500 were recovered from the site of encounter.
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December 9: Security Agencies arrested
six people, three foreigners among them, for their alleged links
with banned religious outfit Jaish-i-Mohammed and for planning a
terrorist attack in Sargodha of Punjab. Among the suspects were
two Egyptians, one Yemeni, two Pakistani-Americans and a local.
Sources said that these five militants were arrested from the house
of one of the suspects in Aziz Bhatti Town. Two computers and some
jihadi literature were recovered. The Pakistani-Americans were identified
as Omer Farooq and Waqar.
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November 22: Out of the two infiltrators
killed by the Army at Balakote sector on November 21, one of them
has been identified as a youth from Rajouri District, absconding
from his house since October 2002. The SFs are reported to have
recovered two Pakistani SIM cards from the possession of the slain
militants. He was reportedly absconding from his house since October
4, 2002 and was said to have crossed over to Pakistan. He was associated
with the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) outfit and underwent training in
different camps in PoK and Pakistan.
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November 21:
An infiltration bid was foiled by the SFs, killing two intruders
and forcing their associates to retrieve to Pakistan occupied Kashmir
(PoK) in the Balakote sector of Poonch District. However, in the
process, one trooper was also killed and two others injured. Intercepts
revealed that a group of five to seven militants of JeM outfit were
launched from Dandot area of PoK (half of Dandot village falls in
PoK) in the night of November 20 by Pakistan Army, which fired on
the Indian posts at Tarkundi, adjacent to Dandot, to give covering
fire to the militants and engage troops in firing to divert their
attention from intrusion. One Pika gun, one AK-47 rifle fitted with
an Under Barrel Grenade Launcher, one 12 bore gun, a binocular,
one Improvised Explosive Device, one grenade, six AK magazines,
two medicine kits and some eatables were recovered from the possession
of the slain militants. The slain trooper was identified as Rifleman
Suresh Kumar of Rajasthan Rifles (7th Battalion).
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October 29: Two Pakistani militants
of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) outfit, including a ‘divisional commander’
and his body-guard, were killed inside the house where they had
been trapped since October 28-night at Sarhuti Top in the Mendhar
tehsil (revenue unit) of Poonch District in the early hours
of October 29. A Government teacher, Mohammad Mushtaq, who had reportedly
given shelter to the militants in his house, has been arrested by
the Police. The house was completely destroyed in the fire as explosives
stored inside caught fire after being hit by rocket launchers leading
to a major blaze. The slain militants were identified as ‘divisional
commander’ Abdul Sattar alias Babbar alias Omar and
his body-guard Shahid Khan alias Shahid. Recoveries made
from the encounter site include two AK-47 rifles, one Chinese pistol,
one wireless set and two AK magazines. According to official sources,
Babbar was operating in the twin border districts of Poonch and
Rajouri for the last eight years. He was among the militants present
in Bhatti Dhar forests encounter in Poonch which had lasted for
11 days from January 1, 2009. Sources also said Babbar was second-in-command
after the Jaish chief for Poonch and Rajouri Districts, Dawood,
who had been headquartered at Pir Panjal range.
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September 28: A young duo of brother
and sister shot dead a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) 'commander' Osama,
a Pakistani, and injured his two associates and also snatched two
AK rifles of the militants while thwarting an attack on their house
at Upper Shahdara Sharief in the Kalsian area of Rajouri District
in the night of September 27. In the scuffle, two brothers, who
were a target of the militants, were also injured. Police sources
and eye-witness account revealed that three militants, including
Osama, knocked at the house of Gujjar Noor Ahmad at 9pm and also
dragged out Vakalat Hussain, Noor's younger brother living adjacent
and forced their entry inside Noor''s house. After questioning the
two brothers, the militants assaulted 46-year old Noor Ahmed, his
wife, Rashida Begum and Vakalat Hussain, describing them as agents
of the SFs. In the meantime, Noor's 20-year old son Aijaz Ahmad
attacked Osama on his head from the back while 17-year old Ruksana
fired from an AK-47 rifle of the militant. Osama was killed on the
spot. The brother-sister duo also managed to snatch another AK rifle
from the militant and also assaulted the two other militants, who
escaped in an injured condition.
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September 25: Police arrested a JeM
militant from the Bus Stand area of Jammu city and recovered hawala
(informal money laundering system) money, mobile handsets and SIM
cards from his possession. The militant, identified as Zubair Ahmad,
a resident of Mendhar town in Poonch District, was arrested soon
after he reached the city from Mendhar. Zubair was a close associate
of the JeM 'divisional commander' Dawood Ahmed, presently operation
from Mendhar.
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September 13: The JeM has walled
off a 4.5-acre compound outside Bahawalpur in the Punjab province
of Pakistan. However, a report added that authorities have ignored
the construction despite reports that the compound might be a radical
madrassa (seminary) or training camp, with senior Police
officials claiming there is no militancy problem in southern Punjab.
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September 6: The Police shot dead
a Pakistani militant of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), Chota Saad alias
Umair, and arrested a District commander of the outfit, Ishfaq Ahmad
Sofi alias Ishfaq, during two related anti-militancy operations
in the Sopore area of Baramulla District. Two AK-47 rifles, one
hand grenade and some ammunition were recovered from the encounter
site. Official sources the two militants were involved in carrying
out series of grenade attacks in Sopore town, including one on August
10, 2009 on Central Reserve Police Force camp at Plaza Hotel Sopore
in which one shopkeeper was killed. They were also involved in several
grenade attacks in Srinagar City, besides killing Reshma Jan alias
Zahida on June 16, 2009 in model town of Sopore.
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August 5: The Government announced
that 25 extremist and militant groups and welfare organisations
affiliated to them have so far been banned because of their involvement
in terrorist activities. In a written reply submitted on August
5 in response to a question in the National Assembly, Interior Minister
Rehman Malik said the banned organisations included Al Qaeda, SMP,
Tehrik Nifaz-i-Fiqah Jafaria, SSP, JuD, Al Akhtar Trust, Al Rasheed
Trust (ART), Tehrik-i-Islami, JeM, LeJ, TTP, Islamic Students Movement,
Khairun Nisa International Trust, Tehrik-i-Islam Pakistan, Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi
(TNSM), LeT, Lashkar-i-Islam, Balochistan Liberation Army, Jamiat-i-Ansar,
Jamiatul Furqan, Hizbut Tehrir, Khuddam-i-Islam and Millat-i-Islamia
Pakistan.
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August 1: Suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed
(JeM) militants opened fired targeting Police and Central Reserve
Police Force personnel, killing a Policeman and seriously injuring
two CRPF personnel in capital Srinagar.
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July 6: The CID of the Sindh Police arrested a militant
of the banned outfit JeM from Hyderabad. Abid Hussain was an absconder
in the assassination case of a Hindu businessman Gardesh Kumar since
2007. CID Superintendent of Police, Mazhar Mashwani, told after
killing Kumar, the militant had managed to escape during an encounter
with the Police during a raid in Hyderabad in 2007. Since then,
he went into hiding, while the Police arrested his father and brother,
who pointed out the location where Kumar’s body was buried.
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June 29: Police in PoK has revealed
that groups like the LeT and JeM are shifting bases to PoK following
clampdown on their activities in the wake of the Mumbai terrorist
attacks of November 26, 2008. In a confidential report submitted
to the Government of Pakistan, PoK Police has said these groups
have acquired large pieces of land in and around PoK capital of
Muzaffarabad and are pursuing a "jehadi" agenda under the garb of
religious activities. "After the ban imposed on the JuD, the front
of LeT by the UNSC, Pakistan forces had taken control of their offices...
The activities of the outfit had gone underground for some months,
but have again become active," the BBC quoted the report as saying.
The report said that the JuD has constructed a mosque, a school
and a dispensary on the land acquired by them in Dulasi and further
construction is on.
The PoK Police report also mentions
the activities of other jihadi groups like the JeM and HuM which have
also constructed madrassas (seminaries) near Muzaffarabad. The JeM
has also set up an office and seminary near Muzaffarabad. Police has
noted that most of the activities of the militant groups have been
observed in Neelam Valley, near the Line of Control. Extremist organisations
have also reportedly set up offices in Kandil Shahi.
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June 29: The Lahore Police claimed
arresting seven terrorists linked to the JeM and TTP and recovering
explosives and weapons. According to a handout by the Capital City
Police office, the Police arrested the terrorists from T-4 Ali Park,
Bund Road Lahore after a brief exchange of fire. It said the men
planned to launch terrorist attacks in the city. The handout said
the suspects were arrested at a check-post near Shera Kot bus station.
They were identified as Karim Bukhsh, Abdul Rehman, Muhammad Younas,
Shafaqat Farooqi and Hafiz Muhammad Ijaz. The police said two rifles,
three pistols, 22 kilograms of explosives and bullets were recovered.
It also said the arrested suspects informed Police about their three
accomplices residing in the Bund Road area. The Police subsequently
raided their hideout and arrested Shehzad and Ijaz Mahmood. However,
Muhammad Ramazan, a resident of Rahim Yar Khan, managed to escape.
The Police recovered 12 kg of explosives from the suspects' hideout.
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June 24: Police arrested Aabid alias Assadullah
Bhai, a self-styled battalion commander of the JeM, from the Sopore
area of Baramulla District, official sources said in capital Srinagar.
Aabid, a resident of Peshawar in Pakistan, was active in Sopore
and adjoining areas for the last two years and was involved in many
militancy-related activities, they said. One Chinese pistol, a magazine
and four rounds were recovered from his possession.
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April 13: The 36 hour-long operations
in Pulwama District ended with the SFs killing another militant.
The SFs later recovered dead bodies of both the Jaish-e-Mohammed
(JeM) militants holed up in a residential house of Aglar Kandi area.
Inspector General of Police, B. Srinivas, said, "The encounter has
ended and both the militants belonging to JeM have been killed.
One Army captain sustained injuries in the operation," Both the
slain militants were Pakistani citizens and identified as Afaaq
and Babar, he added further. Two AK series rifles and some other
material were recovered from the site of encounter.
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April 12: A militant of the Jaish-e-Mohammed
(JeM) was killed and an Army officer injured in an encounter in
the Pulwama District. A gun battle broke out in Aglar Kandi area
after SFs launched a search operation in the area, official sources
said. They said one militant was killed in the firefight so far.
One Army officer of the rank of Captain was also injured in the
gun battle. According to intelligence inputs, the two militants
belong to JeM and are residents of Pakistan. They have been identified
as Afaq and Baber. One residential house suffered extensive damage
while three other houses were partially damaged in an encounter.
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March 31: A soldier, Sepoy Rumpum
Gogi, who was injured in the encounter with the Jaish-e-Mohammad
(JeM) militants in Kamla forests in the Tral area of Pulwama District,
succumbed to injuries at 92 Base hospital of the Army at Badami
Bagh Cantonment on March 30, a Police spokesman said. He also said
the second militant killed in the encounter has been identified
as 'district commander' Azhar alias Usman, a resident of Faisalabad
in Pakistan. The other militant killed in the encounter was a local
resident.
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March 29: Meanwhile, the two militants
killed in an encounter in Kamla forests of Tral in Pulwama District
a day earlier have been identified as local cadres of the Jaish-e-Mohammed
(JeM). One of the slain militants has been identified as Azad Ahmad
Bhat, a resident of Dadsara village. Two assault rifles, six magazines,
89 rounds and two grenades were recovered from the possession of
the slain militants.
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March 25: The Australian Government
on March 16 re-listed six groups as terrorist organisations under
the Criminal Code, following advice from Australia's security agencies.
The re-listing ensures that it remains an offence to associate with,
train with, provide training for, receive funds from, make funds
available to, direct or recruit for these organisations. The outfits
that have been re-listed are: Ansar al Islam (formerly Ansar al-Sunna);
Asbat al Ansar; Islamic Army of Aden; Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan;
JeM; and LeJ.
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February 5: Several banned militant
groups met in Muzaffarabad, the Pakistan occupied Kashmir capital,
and pledged to continue the jihad to "liberate" Kashmir from
India. The meeting was organised by a previously unknown group,
Tehreek-e-Azadi Jammu and Kashmir, on the eve of "Kashmir Solidarity
Day". Groups affiliated to the United Jihad Council (UJC), the umbrella
organisation of more than a dozen militant outfits, were in attendance
including the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)
and the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM). The meeting took place at Chattar,
a neighbourhood that reportedly houses Government offices, top Government
functionaries and political VIPs. The local administration did not
prevent the event, held under a tent on a main road. However, there
was no comment from the Pakistan Government on the meeting.
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January 8: The ten-day long operation
by the SFs which targeted about a dozen commanders of the Jaish-e-Mohammed
(JeM) outfit in Bhati Dhar forests of Mendhar in Poonch District
came to an abrupt end in the evening of January 8 with all militants
managing to escape. Army sources confirmed that the operation has
been called off and all militants, who were being searched for last
10 days, might have escaped. "The operation, which had started on
December 30 afternoon in dense Bhati Dhar forests, is off. All militants
were reported to have escaped taking advantage of rugged terrain
and prevailing climatic conditions in the area", they said. This
was the longest ever anti-militancy operation in Jammu region in
two decades.
Police arrested two more civilians
taking the total number of arrests made from Bhati Dhar surroundings
for helping JeM militants in converting cave hide-outs into bunkers
to four. The two civilians were identified as Mohammed Bashir and
Mohammed Iqbal, both residents of village Thera in Bhati Dhar. Earlier,
Police had arrested a retired Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police
and a woman for assisting the militants.
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January 5: While an encounter between
the SFs and JeM militants in Bein forests of Bhati Dhar in Poonch
District entered the sixth day, two SF personnel sustained splinter
injuries in the intermittent firing by the holed up militants. The
militants, who are at the position on higher peaks of the densely
forested mountainous belt of Bhati Dhar, are reportedly firing intermittently
mostly during the night and early hours. Three SF personnel and
four militants have been killed so far in the encounter that began
on January 1.
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January 3: A Special Police Officer
(SPO), Naresh Kumar, was killed in the continuing encounter between
SFs and two absconding Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) militants at Bhati
Dhar forests in the Mendhar tehsil of Poonch District. With
the killing of SPO, the death toll in the three-day long encounter
has reached seven.
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January 2: Four top militants of
the JeM were killed in a fierce three-day long gun-battle at Bhati
Dhar forests in the Mendhar tehsil (revenue division) of
Poonch District. While two Army soldiers and a militant were killed
on January 1, three militants were killed on January 2. Official
sources said bodies of two soldiers, who were missing in the encounter,
were recovered in the morning of January 2. They have been identified
as Subedar Rakesh Kumar Singh and Naik K. P. Singh. While one of
the militants was killed in the night of January 1 after he came
out of the hideout firing on the Army personnel, his three associates
were killed on January 2 when their hideout was blasted with a powerful
bomb. A large quantity of arms, ammunition, explosives, wireless
set, mobile telephones and literature was also destroyed along with
the hideout.
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January 1: Two Army soldiers and
a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) 'area commander' were killed in a gun-battle
at Bhati Dhar forests in the Chatral area of Mendhar sub-division
in Poonch District while a group of five militants was still trapped
in the area. Official sources said troops of Rashtriya Rifles and
Special Operations Group personnel had cordoned off Bhati Dhar forests
two days back after receiving specific information that a group
of six JeM militants had taken shelter there. In the evening of
January 1, the militants reportedly opened fire on Army personnel,
who retaliated. In the subsequent encounter between the two sides
which continued for more than two hours, two soldiers and JeM 'area
commander' Abdul Gul were killed.
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December 18: The Foreign Ministry
has said that the JeM chief Maulana Masood Azhar "is wanted
by the law enforcement authorities of Pakistan and is at large."
The clarification came after Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi
told a television channel that Azhar was among the "important
people" who had been taken into custody. A few hours earlier,
Pakistan High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik told that his Government
was still looking for Azhar. "He is not under house arrest.
As far as I know, [the report of his house arrest] is wrong. He
is not in Pakistan... We don’t know where he is," Malik said.
Last week, Pakistan Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar told that Azhar
had been "picked up." These statements came after Pakistani
authorities had "confined" Azhar to his home in Bahawalpur
in Punjab province.
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December 17: Authorities have reportedly
claimed neutralizing a clandestine terror network set up by the
jailed killer of Daniel Pearl inside the Hyderabad Jail and the
Sindh Government has suspended senior Police and jail officials
after a large number of cell phones, SIMs and other equipment were
recovered. Highly-placed Interior Ministry sources told that the
jailed terrorist, JeM cadre Ahmed Omar Sheikh, had also threatened
General Pervez Musharraf on his personal cell phone in the second
week of November 2008 and planned to get him assassinated by a suicide
bomber. The caller reportedly told Musharraf: "I am after you,
get ready to die." Subsequent investigations by the authorities
revealed the threatening phone call was made by someone from the
Hyderabad Central Jail. Being a suspect, Omar Sheikh was placed
under observation before it transpired that he was the one who had
threatened the former president.
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December 8: The Pakistani authorities
have placed restrictions on the movement of Maulana Masood Azhar,
chief of the outlawed JeM, by confining him to his multi-storeyed
concrete compound in the Model Town area of Bahawalpur in Punjab
province,. Official sources said Azhar’s activities have been restricted
in the wake of the India’s recent demand to hand him over to New
Delhi. Adviser on Interior Rehman Malik said in Islamabad last week
that India has given to Pakistan a list of three persons—Maulana
Masood Azhar, Dawood Ibrahim and Tiger Memon—for their immediate
extradition.
India has reportedly sought the
arrest and extradition of Masood Azhar while citing a 1989 agreement
signed by the director-general of the CBI and the director-general
of the FIA which binds both the agencies to collaborate with each
other, to trace out the most wanted terrorists and criminals and
hand them over to their respective counterpart. Azhar is wanted
by the CBI for his alleged involvement in the 2001 attacks on Indian
parliament.
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November 20: An official spokesman
said that two militants of the JeM were killed in a joint operation
of the police and army in the Daril-Vilgam village of Kupwara district.
The slain militants were identified as Shamsher alias Showkat Bhai
and Irfan alias Abu Talib, both residents of Pakistan. Two AK rifles
and other arms and ammunition were recovered from the slain militants.
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October 14: In Srinagar, Police
arrested four persons involved in grenade attacks and recovered
arms and ammunition from their possession. They were in close contact
with chief operational commander of the JeM, namely Pasha, who had
given them instructions to lob grenades in Srinagar City.
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October 9: Security forces shot
dead the 'chief commander' of the Pakistan-based JeM, identified
as Zaheer Ahmad alias Pasha, and his accomplice, Saifullah alias
Shoukat Bhai alias Faisal, during a five-hour gun battle in the
Sopore area of Baramulla district. The duo were Pakistani nationals.
Two AK assault rifles and some ammunition were recovered from the
possession of the slain militants of Faisalabad, Pakistan
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September 27: The continuing encounter
at Kenigam in the Pakharpora-Rajpora belt of south Kashmir ended
and the dead bodies of both the holed up JeM militants were recovered.
The slain militants were identified as Shaukat Ahmed Dar of Pulwama,
and Adnan Bhai of Balochistan in Pakistan. Three Army personnel
and a civilian sustained injuries in the gunbattle. Later an explosion
occurred when residents were clearing the rubble injuring 16 persons.
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September 25: A JeM militant, identified
as Showkat was killed in another ongoing operation at village Kenigam
near Pakharpora in the Budgam-Pulwama belt. Another accomplice of
the dead militant, identified as Adnan was still fighting the forces.
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September 7: Security forces (SFs)
killed a ‘divisional commander’ of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) outfit,
Barkatullah Ansari a.k.a. Hyder of Muzaffarabad in Pakistan occupied
Kashmir, during an encounter that ensued after a cordon-and-search
operation at Warpora in the Baramulla district. Officials said that
three SF personnel sustained injuries in the incident. They added
that Ansari was a key co-ordinator between different militant outfits
in north Kashmir apart from being involved in a number of attacks
on the SFs and civilians in the Sopore-Bandipora region.
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July 27: SFs killed two militants
- Abdullah, 'Battalion Commander' of the Lashkar-e-Toiba and Abu
Baker of Jaish-e-Mohammed - in an encounter at village Gujarpati
Surigam in the Kupwara district. Abdullah was reportedly involved
in killing of two policemen in the Sogam area of Kupwara district
in May 2008.
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July 16: Two militants of the Jaish-e-Mohammed
(JeM) outfit and a Special Police Officer of the Jammu and Kashmir
Police were killed and approximately 22 security force personnel
sustained injuries in an 18-hour-long gun-battle at Warpora village
on the Sopore-Bandipora Road. Officials later said that the slain
militants were identified as Hilal Ahmed Sofi of Warpora and a Pakistani
militant, namely Ali Mohammad Raza.
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July 4: One JeM militant was killed
by troops during an encounter between village Barpora and Wagahama
in the Pulwama district. While one Pakistani militant, Shabir Ahmad
alias Arsalan, managed to escape in injured condition, an AK 47
rifle and two magazines were recovered from the encounter site.
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June 16: During a routine checking,
SFs arrested three JeM militants at Shokbaba Bandipora in the Baramula
district. The SFs also recovered three hand grenades from their
possession.
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June 9: The security
forces foiled an attempt by some militants of the JeM, HuM and HM
to indoctrinate and recruit five youth of Sopore area in the Baramulla
District into jehad and other anti-national activities. The youths
were likely to be sent to Pakistan Occupied Kashmir for acquiring
arms and training in guerrilla warfare.
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May 23: The troops launched a search
operation in the Panzu area and arrested a militant of the JeM,
identified as Bilal Ahmed Chopan. Three Chinese grenades, one AK
magazine and six rounds of AK ammunition were recovered from his
possession.
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May 17: The SFs in an encounter
at Laru Jageer in the Tral area of Pulwama district killed six JeM
militants while at least four militants, two of them injured, managed
to escape. Two of the dead militants were identified as the top
wanted JeM 'district commander' Waseem Hassan Ahanger alias Qari
Asif and his close associate Mohammad Yousuf Bhat alias Prince.
While Qari Asif was active since 2004 and was operating in the Tral
area, Prince was reportedly active since 2007 in the Awantipora
and Tral areas.
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April 24: Superintendent of Police
in Handwara, Dr. Haseeb Mughal, said that about 30 militants of
the LeT and JeM were still active in the Handwara-Kandi belt of
Kupwara district.
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April 23: The SFs shot dead a Pakistani
militant of the JeM outfit, identified as Abu Umar, at village Nadwal
in the Mendhar area of Poonch district. A body-guard of Abu Umar
was reported to have escaped during the exchange of firing, sources
said.
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April 22: The involvement of Pakistan-based
outfits has been observed in most of the terrorist attacks in India
as groups from across the border continue to sponsor terrorist and
subversive activities in the country, the Union Home Ministry said
in its Annual Report for 2007-08. "The hand of Pakistan-based terrorist
organisations - LeT and JeM - and, increasingly of the Bangladesh-based
HuJI, known to have close links with ISI, has been observed in most
of these cases," the 167-page report said. The incidents showed
these groups have been using sleeper cells in the country to carry
out such activities, and have also been using the territory of other
neighbouring countries such as Bangladesh and Nepal, it said.
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April 19: The SFs in a day long
gun battle killed four heavily armed militants in the Rang forest
area, about 6-km ahead of Warnow in the Kupwara district. Three
of the slain militants, residents of Pakistan occupied Kashmir,
were identified as Amjad Bhai, Abu Saifullah and Irshad Ahmed. While
Amjad Bhai was a top wanted ‘district commander’ of the JeM who
had been operating in the Lolab area for the last six years, Abu
Saifullah and Arshad were both cadres of the LeT. SSP, Kupwara,
Vijay Kumar, confirmed the death of four militants said that four
AK rifles and a number of grenades were among the arms and ammunition
seized at the site of the encounter.
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April 11: JeM and LeT, the Pakistan-based
terrorist groups, are among the 44 outfits designated as 'Foreign
Terrorist Organisations' (FTO) by the US. Besides these two, other
groups active in India - the Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jihad-i-Islami
and Pakistan-based HuM - are also in the FTO list issued by the
office of the coordinator for counter terrorism of the US Department
of State.
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April 2: SFs killed two militants
of the JeM outfit, identified as Abu Hussain alias Saifullah and
Abu Omar, both Pakistani nationals, during an operation at Arin
Dardpora in the Bandipora district.
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March 23: Pulwama Police arrested
an over-ground worker of the JeM outfit, namely Mohammad Ishaq Mir,
in the Pulwama town. Officials claimed that a hand grenade was recovered
from his possession.
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March 9: Troops arrested three suspected
JeM militants from Warpora village in the Baramulla district. The
arrested were identified as Manzoor Ahmed Dar alias Jana, Ishfaq
Ahmed War alias Ishkan and Abdul Rashid War. Two hand grenades were
recovered from their possession.
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February 21: In a joint operation,
the Jammu and Kashmir Police and Army killed three militants of
the JeM in Kupwara district. Deputy Inspector General of Police
(North Kashmir), B. Srinivas, informed that Police had received
specific information regarding the presence of a seven-member group
of JeM militants in the dense forest area of Batnar Kooligam in
the snowbound Lolab valley. In the encounter that ensued after a
cordon-and-search operation, three militants were killed while four
others, including two injured militants, managed to escape. Srinivas
said that identity of the slain militants was being ascertained
with the help of informants and residents of Khurhama area, though
some of them insisted that the Jaish 'commander' Pasha was among
those killed.
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January 22: Maulana Abdul Jabbar, a former commander
of the JeM, was arrested during a recent crackdown on extremists,
said Interior Ministry sources in Pakistan. They said Jabbar was
earlier arrested in 2002 for his alleged involvement in the first
three suicide attacks in the country, which targeted Christian centers
in Islamabad, Taxila and Murree. He was released in November 2002.
He was again arrested in December 2003 in connection with attacks
on President Pervez Musharraf but released in 2006 for lack of evidence,
the sources said. Sources added that a security agency had detained
Jabbar on suspicion of his involvement in the recent suicide attacks.
However, the Interior Ministry spokesperson Javed Iqbal Cheema neither
denied nor confirmed Jabbar’s arrest, saying it was not in his knowledge.
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December 29-30: A 'battalion commander'
of the JeM outfit, identified as Abdul Gani Dar alias Jhangvi, was
killed in a fierce gun battle at Drubgam village in the Rajpora
area of Pulwama district on December 29. A day later, the police
recovered the dead body of another Pakistani militant, Abu Shakir,
of the JeM from the encounter site.
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December 6: Pakistani militants
of the JeM and LeT have joined hands with the HuJI of Bangladesh
to destabilise India’s sovereignty taking the strategic advantage
of the eastern border, the Director General of BSF, A. K. Mitra,
said. Talking to the media in Agartala, Mitra pointed out that the
western frontier of India was relatively tough for Pakistani militants
but the eastern border with Bangladesh had become more useful for
them and foreign militants were utilising South Bengal border for
anti-Indian activities. He disclosed that 14 militants of the LeT
and JeM were arrested in South Bengal border, trying to sneak into
India from Bangladesh in the past six months. Speaking on the recent
terrorist attacks in India, including the recent serial bomb blasts
in Uttar Pradesh, Mitra said circumstantial evidence point to a
kind of a joint mission by the HUJI, along with LeT and JeM.
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November 27: Two JeM militants were
killed in an encounter with the SFs near Sangrama in the Sopore-Baramulla
belt in north Kashmir. One of them was believed to be a local Kashmiri
militant and another Pakistani national. However, both remained
unidentified.
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November 16: Three suspected Pakistani
JeM militants were arrested by the Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh
Police in Lucknow on a tip off that some terrorists were passing
through the Tehripulia area.
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November 15: Five militants, including
four Pakistani cadres of the HuM and a lone Pakistani cadre of the
JeM and two soldiers were killed at Dharamwari in an encounter that
lasted for over 10 hours.
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October 30: Ghulam Sarwar alias
Amanullah Bukhari alias Jangi Chacha of Gujranwala, Pakistan, a
'district commander' of the JeM, was killed by the SFs in an encounter
in the Bandipora district. Officials said that Bukhari was wanted
in over 50 civilian killings in addition to a number of police personnel.
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October 24: SFs killed two of the
top wanted Pakistani militants of the JeM outfit. SF personnel launched
a cordon-and-search operation at Khoshi Mohalla Brar near Chitti
Bandi village in the Bandipora district after receiving information
that two militants were hiding at the residence of one Ghulam Hassan
Paswal. In the ensuing encounter, SFs destroyed the target house,
killing both the holed up militants, identified as 'district commander'
Saquib and 'battalion commander' Abu Huzaifa alias Ghazi Baba. Two
soldiers were wounded in the encounter.
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October 18: Two Pakistani militants
of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), 'district commander' Dr Zen and
his bodyguard, were killed in a gun-battle with the SFs at Lodara
village in the Bandipora district However, in the capital Srinagar,
a Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen spokesman claimed to news agencies that one
of the militants killed was his outfit's "Battalion Commander" Abul
Khair alias Mohammad Usman and another was Imran of the JeM. Officials
however insisted that one was Zen and another was his bodyguard.
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October 17: Security forces foiled
an infiltration bid and arrested a JeM militant, Abdul Majid Chowhan,
from Dardapora Lolab in the Kupwara district.
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September 20: An Army officer, Mukesh
Kumar, and one Pakistani ‘commander’ of the JeM outfit, identified
as Jamal alias Bilal Bhai, were killed in an encounter between terrorists
and SF personnel at Tral in the Pulwama district.
One Pakistani ‘commander’ of the
JeM outfit, identified as Amanullah Bukhari, was arrested by SF
personnel during a search operation at Bandipora in the Baramulla
district.
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September 17: Two top Pakistani
militants of the JeM were killed in a joint operation by the SFs
at Khayyar village in the Bandipore area. Inspector General of Police
(Kashmir), Shiv Mohan Sahai, said that SFs launched a search operation
in the area following information that three of the top wanted militants
of the JeM, led by the most wanted Amanullah Bukhari, were hiding
at a house. SFs later neutralized their hideout and gunned down
two heavily armed militants, identified as Mohammad Tariq Khan alias
Sajid and Mohammad Abu Bakr Ayayee alias Usman. However, Bukhari
managed to escape.
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September 14: A suspected Pakistani cadre of the
JeM was killed by SF personnel at Sodal near Handwara in the Baramulla
district. While one SF personnel was wounded, five terrorists managed
to escape from the incident site.
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September 4: A JeM ‘district commander’,
Abdul Gani alias Abu Mavia alias Mauz, surrendered before the troops
in Doda district. Senior Superintendent of Police, Manohar Singh,
informed that Abu Mavia had joined militancy in 2002 and received
arms training at Balakote training camp in Pakistan occupied Kashmir.
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August 30: Security forces killed
a Pakistani militant of the JeM outfit, identified as Ali Raja,
at Balkul Gali Top in the Kupwara district.
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August 17:
Police arrested four members of the JeM network,
including a woman and her daughter, from Mendhar in the Poonch district.
The women, who were arrested from a hide-out at village Bhati Dhara,
were identified as Zubaida Begum and her 20-year old daughter Rubeena
Begum. Zubaida’s husband, Mohammed Razzaq was already under detention
since the last two years for his links with the JeM. According to
official sources, both the women were instrumental in shifting arms
and hawala consignments for the militants.
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August 11: Special Operations Group
of Jammu Police and Delhi Police, in a joint operation, gunned down
JeM 'divisional commander' Saifullah Qari, a Pakistani national
and mastermind behind the July 5, 2005-attack on makeshift Ram temple
at the disputed Ayodhya complex in Uttar Pradesh and critically
injured his associate in a house at Ramzanpura near Janipura Colony
in Jammu. The injured militant has been arrested. A Delhi Police
Sub Inspector Devinder Singh was also injured in the operation that
lasted for half an hour.
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August 1: Troops also killed a Pakistani
militant of the JeM, identified as Mohammad Talha Reyan, in an encounter
at Zaloora in the Sopore area of Baramulla district.
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July 5: A militant of the JeM outfit
was killed in an encounter with police at Krussan in the Kupwara
district.
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May 22: Two JeM cadres, identified
as 'district commander' Waseem Bhai of Pakistan and Arshid Ahmed
Dar alias Umar, were killed by the SF personnel In another encounter
at Kesrigam in the Kakapora area of Pulwama district. Official sources
said that a soldier, Rajesh Chaudhry of the Rashtriya Rifles, also
died in the gun-battle.
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May 16: The CRPF personnel arrested
one over-ground worker of the JeM outfit, Farooq Ahmad, at Murran
road in Pulwama.
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May 6: Pakistan-based terrorist
groups, particularly the JeM and LeT, are increasingly depending
on "surrogate bases" in Bangladesh, Nepal and the Middle East for
movement of trained cadres and finances for their operations, indicated
the Union Home Ministry. A home ministry document, based on intelligence
inputs, said the Bangladesh-based HuJI, linked to the JeM and LeT,
is recruiting Indian youths, sending them to Pakistan for training
and re-inducting them via Bangladesh to carry out terrorist attacks.
"This is evident from the Mumbai local train serial bomb blasts
in which 11 Pakistanis infiltrated through the Indo-Nepal border
in Bihar, Indo-Bangladesh border in West Bengal and Indo-Pakistan
border in Gujarat," the report said.
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April 26: Another plot to assassinate
the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in a suicide
attack during his rally at Bandipora in the Baramulla district was
foiled by police with the arrest of three militants, including a
Pakistani national. A senior police officer said that a top LeT
militant, Showkat Ahmed, was arrested from the capital Srinagar
on April 24. During interrogation, he revealed that the LeT, JeM
and HM had hatched a joint conspiracy to assassinate the Chief Minister
at Bandipora during his rally. Police raided a militant hideout
on the outskirts of Srinagar from where two associates of Showkat
were also arrested. They included one Pakistani, Abu Sikander.
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April 21: The outlawed JeM is reportedly
re-organising itself under its new commander Mufti Abdul Rauf, younger
brother of the outfit's chief Maulana Masood Azhar. The JeM had
established a transit camp in the capital Islamabad for its activists
coming from southern Punjab and traveling to Kohat where another
camp had been established. "Mufti Abdul Rauf is spearheading the
re-organisation of JeM," the sources said. Rauf appeared on the
scene after Maulana Azhar went underground following two suicide
attacks on President General Pervez Musharraf. The camp in Islamabad
is supposed to serve as the base for the outfit for its propaganda
campaign and distribution of pamphlets in the tribal areas.
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March 17: A militant of JeM was
arrested from village Sangoo-Narbal in Kakapora in the Pulwama district
along with three hand grenades, four detonators, 700 grams of explosives
and seven AK rounds.
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March 16: Rawalpindi Police said
that they arrested five cadres of the banned JeM, who were on their
way to the Supreme Court building, in Faizabad. The arrested men
had been identified as Mohammad Jahangir, Mufti Abdul Rauf, Abdul
Haleem, Atiqur Rehman and Kashif. Mohammad Jahangir and Mufti Abdul
Rauf were the brothers of Maulana Masood Azhar.
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February 27: SFs killed a JeM militant,
identified as Mohammad Iqbal alias Bala of Pakistan, during an encounter
at Gujjarpatti Chandigam in the Kupwara district. Three of his associates
reportedly managed to escape from the incident site.
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February 21: The Police control room
in New Delhi received a call from a man identifying himself as spokesman
of the JeM who threatened to carry out blasts in the national capital
if four of its men, lodged in the Tihar jail are not released. The
police reportedly has identified the number and a hunt is on to
arrest the person responsible for making the call.
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February 4: Four suspected JeM militants,
including a Pakistani national, are arrested following an encounter
with the Delhi Police under the Ranjit Singh flyover near Connaught
Place. The police recovered three kilograms of RDX, four detonators,
a timer, six hand grenades, .30 bore firearm, US $ 10,000 and INR
50,000 from them. The encounter followed a tip off available with
the Special Cell of the Delhi Police that some JeM members are in
the Capital to carry out a major operation and they would meet near
the flyover. Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Karnal
Singh said the militants, identified themselves as Shahid Gafur
from Sialkot in Pakistan and Bashir Ahmed, Fayaz Lone and Abdul
Mazid from Jammu and Kashmir. The three Kashmiris disclosed that
they arrived by the Malwa Express earlier in the day.
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Februar 2: Islamabad police arrested
40 students of a Madrassa (seminary) in connection with a protest
demonstration by the banned JeM held during the visit of an APHC
delegation.
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January 20: Police have beefed up
security in the Cuttack city amidst intelligence reports indicating
that the JeM, Lashkar-e-Toiba LeT
and SIMI
cadres are planning to orchestrate a terrorist attack during the
India-West Indies one-day Cricket Match at the Barabati Stadium
on January 24. Official sources told that terrorists are planning
to carry out attacks in Cuttack, besides Kochi (Kerala), Bhubaneswar
(capital of Orissa), Guwahati (Assam) and Bangalore (capital of
Karnataka) prior to the Republic Day on January 26.
A senior police official in Orissa
said, "We have information that Muslim fundamentalists are
trying to take advantage of the feeble police presence in certain
pockets of the state. We are very watchful and alert." According
to the security blueprint, three platoons of police force will guard
the hotel where the teams of India and West Indies stay in Bhubaneswar
while around 40 platoons would do duty in Cuttack. Plainclothes
policemen would also man the nearly 40-km distance from the hotel
to the stadium.
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January 19: SF personnel foil a
terrorist attempt to cause large scale disturbances during Republic
Day (January 26) when they arrested five militants of the LeT and
JeM from different places at Bandipora in the Baramulla district.
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January 8: Security forces (SFs)
arrested a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) cadre, Mohammad Maqbool Bhat,
at New Colony in the Pulwama district.
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January 7: SFs killed two cadres
of the JeM outfit, identified as Fayaz Ahmed Sheikh alias Muzzamil
Jihadi, a 'Tehsil Commander', and Shabir Ahmed Rather at Dalwan
village in the Chrar-e-Sharief area of Budgam district.
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December 18: Four of the six terrorists,
who were reportedly trapped in three separate operations at Bandipora
and Lolab, have been killed by the SFs since December 18-evening.
Sources said that SF operation ended with the death of both the
holed up terrorists at Kota Satrena in the Bandipora area of Baramulla
district. They are identified as Saifullah and Khalid alias Zubair,
Pakistani cadres of the JeM.
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December 4: The Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) are using territory and elements
in Bangladesh and Nepal for movement of terrorists and finances
in India, according to a paper prepared by the Union Home Ministry
on internal security situation.
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November 27: Two suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed
militants were arrested by the Delhi Police at the Old Delhi railway
station. The arrests followed a tip-off that the duo were aboard
the Kalka-Delhi Mail train. Police recovered two kilograms of RDX
and INR 5 lakh from them. During interrogation, the arrested persons
reportedly disclosed that they were JeM militants.
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November 21: Two over-ground workers
of the militants, identified as Kamar Din and Mohammad Ashraf, associated
with the JeM outfit, are arrested from the Chajroo area of Udhampur
district.
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November 12: The Union Government
has decided to provide maximum security cover for the kin of Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh, his predecessor Atal Behari Vajpayee and
Congress Party chief Sonia Gandhi, in view of the abduction threat
from the Pakistan-based JeM group. Security agencies in Jammu and
Kashmir intercepted a wireless message of the JeM, which suggested
that militants were planning to kidnap kin of these VVIPs to secure
the release of some militants in various jails of India.
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October 19: A cadre of the Pakistan-based
outfit JeM, identified as Pervez Ahmed Radoo, is arrested by the
Special Cell of the Delhi Police on October 14. He was a carrier
of arms, explosives and communication equipment for JeM cadres in
various parts of the country, including Delhi. The police said JeM
chief in Srinagar, identified as Shergill, had entrusted Pervez
with triggering explosions in the Capital.
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October 17: Head Constable Vikram
Singh, driver of Inspector General of Police (Kashmir) S. M. Sahai,
is shot dead by terrorists near the General Bus Stand at Batmaloo
in the capital Srinagar.
Terrorists shot dead Constable Dilawar Ahmed at Telbal Morh near
the Hazratbal Shrineon the outskirts of Srinagar. The JeM claimed
responsibility for both the attacks.
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October 15: Police constable Ghulam Mohiuddin is reported to have
died and his colleague, Ghulam Hassan, sustained injuries in a terrorist
attack in the Lal Chowk area of capital Srinagar. The JeM claimed
responsibility for the incident.
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October 6: Police arrests two terrorists
of the JeM, identified as Liaquat Hussain and Mushtaq Ahmed, from
Pangai in the Thannamandi area of Rajouri district.
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October 4: 21 terrorists, belonging
to the JeM, Al Barq and Hizb-e-Islami outfits, hailing mostly from
the Baramulla and Kupwara districts, surrender before 19 Infantry
Division within a day of their infiltration from LoC in the Uri
sector.
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September 28: A Hawala operator,
identified as Naseer Ahmed alias Doctor, is arrested by Nowshera
police from the Mendhar area of Poonch district. He is being questioned
to ascertain his links with the JeM outfit, including the outfit’s
‘commander’ for Rajouri-Poonch districts, Saifullah Kari.
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September 24: Over 1,000 trained
Kashmiri militants are "currently stranded" in three camps of the
HM in the Hazara region of NWFP, a Press Trust of India report quoted
the Pakistan-based Herald magazine. "Of these, the Hisari and Batrasi
camps are located in Mansehra district while a third camp is located
in Boi in district Abbottabad," Herald reported. It quoted unnamed
sources to say that thousands of other terrorists were confined
in camps run by half a dozen smaller Kashmiri groups or predominantly
Pakistani outfits like the LeT, JeM and Al-Badr Mujahideen in the
frontier and Pakistan occupied Kashmir regions. Quoting "knowledgeable
sources", the Herald said "until recently”, small groups like the
Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen, Al-Umar Mujahideen, Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen,
Al-Fatah, Al-Jihad, Al-Barq, Tehrik-e-Jihad, and Islamic Front were
receiving between 400,000 and 700,000 rupees a month, adding, "Large
organisations like HM, LeT, JeM, Al-Badr Mujahideen and others received
more money, ranging between two to three million rupees."
A JeM cadre, identified as Arshad Ahmed alias Tipu, surrenders before
SFs in the Doda district.
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September 20: Javed Ahmed alias Atish alias Jugnoo, a ‘section
commander’ of the JeM, is killed by the SF personnel at village
Rannaie in the Doda district.
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September 17: Abu Jandal, a former bodyguard of Osama bin Laden,
claims that Al Qaeda operatives were behind the hijacking of the
Indian Airlines plane in December 1999, which culminated in the
release of JeM chief Maulana Masood Azhar and two other terrorists,
Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar and Omar Sheikh, at Kandahar in Afghanistan.
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September 16: Three JeM militants are killed during a cordon-and-search
operation at Gurwatan Sarpathri in Pir Panjal foothills in Shopian
area. One of the killed militants is believed to be a Pakistani
national.
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September 12: Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh said that that Pakistan has not done enough to control terrorist
outfits like the LeT and JeM.
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September 9: SFs arrest Mohammad
Rizwan, a member of the banned JeM, from the outskirts of Karachi
in Pakistan. He was involved in several heinous acts of sectarian
terrorism and the provincial government had him on their most wanted
list.
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September 4: A cadre of the JeM,
Qadiryar, is killed in an encounter with SF personnel at Midora
in the Pulwama district.
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August 30: SFs arrest two cadres
of the JeM at Lolab valley in the Kupwara district along with five
hand grenades.
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August 29: Two teachers are arrested
as Rajouri district police today raided terrorist hide-outs in the
Mendhar, Darhal, Gambhir and Rajouri towns to neutralize the network
of Amzad, ‘financial chief’ of the JeM, who was reportedly arrested
earlier.
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August 24: The Anti-Terrorist Squad
of the Mumbai Police said that the two Pakistani terrorists, one
of whom was killed in an encounter on August 21, had plans to attack
five places in Mumbai, including the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
at Anushakti Nagar and Siddhivinayak Temple. During interrogation,
Mohammad Riaz Nawabuddin, who was arrested on August 21, has revealed
that the duo had obtained training at a JeM camp in Pakistan.
The Special Operations Group of police in Jammu arrests three activists
of the JeM and HM from Tikri on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway
when they were shifting a Hawala consignment from Rajouri to Kashmir.
Two JeM cadres, identified as Gulshan Ahmed and Tariq Ahmed Hazzan,
are arrested from the Kupwara district.
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August 23: The Union Government
said that Pakistan’s external intelligence agency ISI continues
to provide "directions" and "logistics" support to terrorist groups
like the JeM, LeT, HM and Al-Badr for terrorist related activities
in Jammu and Kashmir.
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August 18: An intelligence agency has
handed over six suspects, belonging to the proscribed JeM, to police
in connection with the March 2, 2006-suicide attack outside the
US consulate in Karachi.
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August 17: Terrorists attack personnel
of the Jammu and Kashmir Police and CRPF at three places in the
capital city of Srinagar on with silencer-fitted pistols, killing
two of them and injuring two others. One of the injured succumbs
to his injuries later.
Inspector General of Police (Kashmir), S M Sahai, said that a freshly
inducted JeM module has carried out the attacks. Ismail Hamza, an
aide to the JeM leader Maulana Masood Azhar, denies that a British
national arrested in Pakistan in connection with the plot to blow
up US-bound airliners had ever been a member of the group.
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August 16: The father of Maulana Masood
Azhar, chief of the JeM, said that Rashid Rauf, identified by Pakistan
as a key player in the failed plot to blow up transatlantic airliners
in London, left the movement to join rivals more interested in Al
Qaeda’s anti-Western message. He said that Rauf was a member of
the JeM before he joined Al Qaeda.
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August 8: The Jammu Police shot dead
two suicide squad (Fidayeen) cadres of the JeM outfit, including
one identified as Mohammed Basharat alias Khalid, a Pakistani, in
an encounter at Jagti near Nagrota in the early hours and foils
their plot to strike in the Jammu City on or before the Independence
Day (August 15).
Hassan Bhai, a front ranking JeM cadre, who was also a close associate
of the outfit’s chief Maulana Masood Azhar, is killed in an encounter
with the police in the Keshwan forests of Doda district.
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August 1: A Police Constable and two
JeM terrorists, including a Pakistani national, are killed in an
overnight encounter at Chidipora in the Pulwama district. Two CRPF
personnel, Mohammad Aziz and Kapil Kumar, are killed by cadres of
the JeM at Dalgate in the capital Srinagar. A civilian is also injured
in the attack, which took place near a crowded bus stop.
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July 19: In three separate incidents
in capital Srinagar, terrorists open fire on police personnel killing
two of them and injuring another. Subsequently, JeM claims responsibility
for the attacks, which took place at the Bus Depot near Hazratbal
Shrine, Soura Sabzi Mandi and Lal Chowk.
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June 25: Two Pakistani terrorists of
the JeM outfit are killed in an encounter with the security forces
in the Dardsun area of Kupwara district, while three others managed
to escape. A JeM spokesperson confirms the death of two cadres of
his outfit, but claims that four soldiers are also killed and three
others sustained injuries in the gun-battle.
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May 30: A police personnel is killed
and ten persons sustain injuries in separate grenade attacks in
the capital Srinagar. In the first incident, terrorists hurl a grenade
towards an escort vehicle of the Human Rights Commission near Iqbal
Park killing police constable Ghulam Nabi Kanjoo on the spot and
injuring six persons, including a woman and her two infants. The
Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) claims responsibility for the attack.
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May 22: Thirty-four persons, including
23 civilians, are injured in separate grenade attacks in Srinagar.
Subsequently, the JeM claims responsibility for these attacks.
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May 15: Two civilians and one CRPF
personnel are wounded when terrorists targeted a security bunker
with grenades at Kawdara in the capital Srinagar. The JeM claimed
responsibility for the attack.
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May 6: Two youths, who had forcibly
been inducted by a JeM 'commander', are rescued by the troops from
the Dachhan area of Doda district.
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May 3: A police personnel is wounded
when terrorists lobbed a hand grenade targeting the Police Station
at Khanyar in the capital Srinagar. A spokesperson for the JeM claimed
responsibility for the attack.
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April 27: Troops arrested a suspect,
Mohammed Sharief Khatana, during a search operation from the Kanthali
area of Udhampur district along with some clothing which he had
planned to give to Abu Sufian, Abu Muslim and Manzoor Ahmed, cadres
of the JeM outfit.
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April 16: Four civilians are wounded
when unidentified terrorists triggered a grenade blast targeting
a picket of the Central Reserve Police Force at Rainawari Chowk
in the capital Srinagar. The JeM is reported to have claimed responsibility
for the attack.
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April 16: Police kills a top ranking
cadre of the JeM, identified as Aftab Ansari, at Kokernag in the
Anantnag district.
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April 14: Terrorists trigger out seven
grenade blasts in the capital city of Srinagar, killing five civilians
and injuring 44 persons, including 14 SF personnel. A local news
agency, Current News Service, reported that four terrorist groups
- JeM, Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen (JuM), Al-Mansooran and J&K Islamic
Front - claimed responsibility for these blasts.
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April 11: A JeM cadre, identified as
Haider alias Imtiyaz, is killed during an encounter with the SFs
at Lolab in the Kupwara district.
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April 10: Two JeM cadres, identified
as Mustaqeem and Commando, are killed during an encounter with the
security forces at Sukhnai village in the Doda district.
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April 4: Cadres of the JeM abduct Ghulam
Rasool Jan, a police constable, from his residence and subsequently
killed him at Kehlil in the Tral area of Pulwama district.
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March 17: The SFs shot dead four foreign
mercenaries of the JeM outfit, including 'district commander' Abu
Mehtab, in an encounter at village Morian Chatru in the Manjakote
area of Rajouri district.
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March 14: A 'Divisional Commander'
of the JeM, Jaish Zubair Lone alias Irfan, and his associate, Ihtisham
Ali alias Abu Saliha, are killed in an encounter with the troops
at Chandhara Pampore village in the Pulwama district.
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March 11: Authorities in PoK are reported
to have arrested eight terrorists in Muzaffarabad, including Mufti
Abdul Raouf of the JeM.
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March 5: Twenty-three civilians and
two CRPF personnel are injured during a JeM triggered grenade attack
on a CRPF vehicle near Rajpora Chowk in Pulwama town.
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March 4: Six civilians and three police
personnel sustain injuries in a JeM triggered grenade attack near
Rainawari in the capital Srinagar.
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February 19: Two JeM terrorists, Ali
Muawia, a ‘district commander’, and Abu Khalid, a ‘battalion commander’,
are killed by the SFs in a gun-battle at Ganai in the Tral town
of Pulwama district. One AK-56 rifle and one pistol are recovered
from the incident site.
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February 2: Two JeM terrorists, identified
as ‘district commander’ Shah Ali and Abrar Hazarvi, are killed in
an encounter with the police at Madhari jungle in the Poonch district.
Two AK-47 rifles, eight magazines, 121 rounds, one Kenwood radio
set, four grenades, Rs 1860 in Indian currency, Rs 1500 in Pakistan
currency, two pouches and one diary are recovered from the incident
site.
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January 1: A JeM ‘divisional commander’,
Osama Bukhari alias Mohammed Arshad, is shot dead in an encounter
with the troops at Dodaj under the jurisdiction of Darhal police
station in Rajouri district. Two police personnel, Mohammed Ishfaq
and Abdul Qayoom, are wounded in the incident. Bukhari, a resident
of Bahawalpur in Pakistan, was instrumental in a number of killings
in the Thannamandi and Darhal areas, according to official sources.
One AK-47 rifle, three magazines, 100 rounds, one Chinese pistol
with two magazines, two Chinese grenades, one wireless set, four
diaries, 10 letter pads, one pouch, matrix codes, some documents
and photo identity cards are recovered from the incident site.
2005
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December 29: Three terrorists, including
a top JeM ‘commander’, are killed in an encounter with the SFs at
Khrew Pampore in the Pulwama district. According to defence sources,
the slain terrorists include ‘deputy divisional commander’ of the
outfit, Qari Suhail, and two of his accomplices Afaq and Danish.
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December 21: Police arrest five JeM
cadres from the outskirts of Kishtwar town in Doda district. Two
of them hail from Anantnag district in Kashmir valley and three
from Kishtwar. They were identified as Sajjad Ahmed Khanday, Shabir
Ahmed Akhoon, Tanveer Ahmed, Shahid Hussain and Sajjad Hussain Bhat.
A BSNL mobile telephone, four BSNL SIM cards and Rupees 10,000 in
cash are recovered from their possession.
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December 19: A top JeM ‘commander’,
identified as Qari Zarar, is killed in an encounter with the SF
personnel at Lalpora village in the Kupwara district.
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November 30: A group of JeM terrorists
shoot at and injure a police constable, Zahoor Ahmed, at Khanyar
in the capital Srinagar.
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November 25: SFs arrest a JeM cadre
from the Pulwama district along with some arms and ammunition.
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November 24: A top JeM leader, identified
as Zia, is killed by the troops at Dhobiwan village in the Tral
area of Pulwama district.
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November 21: A Pakistani cadre of the
JeM group is killed and two soldiers wounded in a midnight encounter
in the Jawahar Nagar area of capital Srinagar. One AK-56 rifle,
two magazines and 15 rounds are seized from the incident site. Inspector
General of Police (Kashmir Zone), K. Rajendra Kumar, said that Sajid
alias Qari Saifullah was hiding in the house of a former official
of All India Radio behind DAV School for the last several days.
Kumar also informed that Saifullah is a ‘divisional commander’ of
the JeM.
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November 11: An alleged conduit of
the JeM, who shuttles between India and Bangladesh and has ferried
the terrorists involved in the July 5-Ayodhya attack, is arrested
by the Special Cell of the Delhi police at Old Delhi railway station.
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November 7: Troops kill a Pakistani
cadre of the JeM, identified as Mohammad Rustum, during an encounter
at Warnow in the Lolab valley of Kupwara district.
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November 6: SFs in the Punjab province
of Pakistan detain 32 activists of banned religious organisations
during Eid celebrations ahead of the cricket Test match between
Pakistan and England. Government prepares a list of 190 activists
belonging to JeM, SSP and other terrorist outfits and arrest 32
of them from Multan, Bahawalpur, Sargodha and Faisalabad.
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November 2: A few hours before the
swearing in of Ghulam Nabi Azad as the tenth Chief Minister (CM)
of Jammu and Kashmir, a Fidayeen (suicide squad) terrorist detonated
a powerful car bomb in the Nowgam area of capital Srinagar near
the old residence of outgoing CM, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, killing
at least 10 people and injuring 18 others. A caller, who identified
himself as Jaish-e-Mohammed spokesperson, Abu Qadam, telephoned
local media organisations in Srinagar and said Mohammad Mubashir,
a resident of Abbaspora in Pakistan occupied Kashmir, was the Fidayeen
who carried out the attack.
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September 30: Security forces raided
a terrorist hideout at Wan Diwalgam in the Kokernag area of Anantnag
district and killed a JeM terrorist, identified as Mohammad Rafeeq
Wagay.
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September 23: An 'area commander' of
the JeM, Khurshid Ahmed Butt alias Kamran alias Fayaaz, was arrested
by the Delhi Police from the Pampore area of Pulwama district.
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August 1: A ‘sector commander’ of the
Jaish-e-Mohammed, identified as Adil, is shot dead by the troops
in the Phagala area of Poonch district. One AK rifle, 190 rounds,
seven magazines, one radio set and Rupees 20,000 were recovered
from the incident site.
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July 27: A JeM cadre, identified as
Sajjad Ahmed Aatish, hailing from Bahawalpur in Pakistan, is killed
by the security forces (SFs) at Imbarzalwari in the Sopore area
of Baramulla district.
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July 11: A ‘district commander’ of
the JeM, Momin Khan of Pakistan occupied Kashmir, is killed along
with his local associate Mohammad Iqbal Wani in an encounter with
the SFs at village Chhatawach-Shopian in the Pulwama district.
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July 9: Four Jaish-e-Mohammed cadres,
including Jamal Bhai, 'chief operations commander' and Mullah Naseer,
'Deputy chief', are killed during an encounter with the SFs in Pulwama
district.
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June 10: Acting on a tip off about
four JeM cadres hiding in the Sofipora Wullarhama village on Sangam-Pahalgam
road in Anantnag district, SFs launched a cordon and search operation
around the village Imambara (structure for the Muharram celebrations)
and killed two terrorists after an exchange of fire injured a solider.
Subsequently, the structure caught fire and two other terrorists
holed up inside are believed to be killed in the rage.
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May 5: JeM cadre, Ishaq alias Abu Kasha
Asgari, is shot dead by the SFs at Hari Safeda in the Surankote
area of Poonch district. One AK rifle, two magazines, two grenades
and a wireless set was recovered from the incident site.
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May 4: A cadre of the Jaish-e-Mohammed,
Sajjad, is shot dead and two others, Omar and Arif, were arrested
by the Army subsequent to an encounter at village Tharsa in the
Deedah area of Udhampur district.
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April 26: The Karachi Police arrest
two terrorists of the JeM, Mohammad Anis and Nafees Siddiqui, and
seize six locally-made bombs and more than 55 kilograms of explosive
material during a raid at a house in the Orangi Town area.
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April 10: Two JeM cadres, Rizwan and
Farooq Ahmed Kullay, are killed during an encounter that ensued
after troops from the Assam Regiment launched a cordon-and-search
operation in the Danora forest area of Pulwama district. Official
sources in Pulwama said that one pistol and a self-loading rifle,
which had been snatched by Jaish cadres during a bank robbery at
Imam Sahib, Shopian, last year, were recovered from the incident
site.
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April 9: According to Asia Pulse,
Australia has re-listed six groups as terrorist organisations, warning
that anyone associated with them faces up to 25 years in jail. Attorney-General,
Philip Ruddock, named the six organisations as Lashkar-e Jhangvi,
Jaish-e-Mohammad, both Pakistan-based and Asbat al-Ansar, Egyptian
Islamic Jihad, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, and the Islamic Army
of Aden.
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April 8: Two cadres of the Jaish-e-Mohammed,
including Zahoor Ahmed Bhat alias Abdul Islam, a ‘district commander’
and Sarfaraz Ahmed, a ‘tehsil commander’, are killed during an encounter
with the SFs at Karewa Manloo village in the Shopian area of Pulwama
district.
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April 6: Mohammed Rafiq alias Kamran,
a ‘tehsil commander’, and Mohammed Shaffi alias Khalid, a ‘section
commander’ of the Jaish-e-Mohammed, surrender before the army at
Kishtwar in the Doda district. They handed over two AK rifles, four
magazines and 120 rounds of ammunition at the time of surrender.
Subsequently, based on information given by them, the troops raided
a JeM hideout at village Chachchi and shot dead two Jaish cadres.
Two AK rifles and some ammunition were recovered from their possession.
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January 19: Dawn reports that
the police have traced a network of 19 people suspected of involvement
in the July 30, 2004 suicide attack on Pakistani Prime Minister
Shaukat Aziz in Fateh Jhang, and arrested three brothers belonging
to the proscribed Jaish-e-Mohammad and Jamaat-ul-Furqan outfits.
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January 3: Inspector General of Police
(Kashmir Zone), Javaid Makhdoomi, discloses at a press conference
that the Pulwama Police had arrested a JeM ‘district commander’,
Sajjad Ahmed Bhat alias Mulla, from the Dr. Munir Khan Kidney Hospital
at Sonwar in Srinagar.
2004
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August 27: Troops shot dead Mohammed
Hassan Askari, a ‘commander’ of the JeM outfit, during an encounter
at Choudhary Narh in the Rajouri district.
Mohammed Ashfaq, an ‘area commander’
of the Jaish, is killed during an encounter with the troops at Bigial
Mohalla in the Mendhar area of Poonch district.
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August 6: Three JeM terrorists are
shot dead by security forces at Konibal in the Pulwama district
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July 30: Three terrorists of the Jaish-e-Mohammed
(JeM) were arrested during a raid on a house in Javed Colony near
the General Bus Stand in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. The arrested men
were identified as Mehdi Kanwal alias Shakir, Sakhawat Hussain and
Asad Hussain.
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July 15: A suspected Jaish terrorist,
identified as Ghaniur Rahman, was arrested from Hyderabad, Pakistan,
for his alleged links to the Al Qaeda and Taliban.
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June 21: Two terrorists, affiliated
to the Jaish-e-Mohammed outfit, were shot dead during an encounter
at Bathnoor village in the Tral area of Pulwama district. Two AK-56
rifles, one wireless set, a tape recorder and five hand grenades
were recovered from the incident site.
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June 18: A group of terrorists, suspected
to be JeM cadres, abducted and later beheaded a civilian and his
son in the Tral area of Pulwama district. The two were allegedly
killed after the terrorists suspected them to be informers for the
security forces’.
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May 9: Security forces shot dead two
Jaish-e-Mohammed ‘commanders’, identified as Tariq Hussain and Maqsoom,
during an encounter in the Mahore area of Udhampur district. Two
AK rifles, nine magazines, 105 AK rounds, one radio set, three hand
grenades and Rupees 2110 in Indian currency were recovered from
their possession.
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April 10: Security forces shot dead
the 'district commander' of JeM for Srinagar, Tariq Arshid alias
Imran, a resident of Multan, Pakistan, in an encounter at Natipora
on the outskirts of Srinagar city.
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April 8: Sehrai Baba, the ‘chief commander
of operations’ of Jaish-e-Mohammed, was among five terrorists killed
during an encounter with security forces in the Sheikhnaar forest
area of Kupwara district. Gazi Asif Zajim alias Sehrai Baba alias
Qari Asif, hailing from Karachi in Pakistan, according to official
sources, had earlier functioned as the outfit’s ‘district commander’
in Kupwara for two years.
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March 28: Security agencies in Islamabad
arrested three terrorists affiliated to the outlawed Jaish-e-Mohammed
for their alleged involvement in the December 25, 2003, suicide
attack on President Pervez Musharraf.
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March 24: A self-styled district commander
of the JeM, identified as Abu Usman, was killed along with his associate
during an encounter with the security forces at Sogam in the Kupwara
district. An AK rifle, three magazines, 35 rounds of ammunition,
six grenades, six grenade launchers and a wireless set were recovered
from the incident site.
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February 20: The Supreme Court stayed
the execution of Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist Mohammad Afzal, who
was awarded the death sentence by the trial court in the December
13-Parliament attack case. The sentence was later confirmed by the
Delhi High Court. The Supreme Court suspended the operation of the
sentence while issuing notice to the Delhi Government on Afzal's
appeal challenging the judgment of the Delhi High Court.
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January 19: Two Jaish terrorists were
killed by SFs in an encounter at village Kalla of Mahore tehsil
in the Udhampur district. Two AK rifles, eight magazines, four hand
grenades, one wireless set, 18 detonators, Rupees 4650 in Indian
currency and seven Improvised Explosive Devices were recovered from
the slain terrorists.
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January 11: A JeM terrorist was taken
into custody in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, in connection with the assassination
attempt on President Musharraf’s convoy at Rawalpindi on December
25, 2003.
2003
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December 29: One of the two suicide
bombers who targeted President Musharraf on December 25 in Rawalpindi
belonged to the outlawed Jaish-e-Mohammed and was freed from an
Afghan prison during year 2002, unnamed intelligence officials were
quoted as saying in the Daily Times.
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December 23: A JeM cadre and one soldier
were killed during an encounter that ensued after the SFs raided
a terrorist hideout at Drubgam in the Pulwama district.
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The US Secretary of State redesignates
the Jaish-e-Mohammed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
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December 12: SFs shot dead Abu Babbar,
an ‘area commander’ of Jaish-e-Mohammed, in a gun-fight at Zabbi
Toti dhok in the Surankote area of Poonch district.
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December 9: In south Kashmir, a terrorist
identified as Toofan Khan of the Jaish-e-Mohammad, and a security
force personnel were killed during an encounter at Bongam in the
Shopian area of Pulwama district.
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December 7: Troops shot dead two JeM
terrorists during an encounter at Sadiqi Bhata in the Chatroo area
of Doda district.
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December 4: Authorities in Pakistan
occupied Kashmir (PoK) outlawed six terrorist groups including the
Khuddam-ul-Islam (formerly known as Jaish-e-Mohammed [JeM]).
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November 21: Law enforcement agencies
sealed eight offices of proscribed terrorist groups in the Sialkot
district including four offices of the Khuddam-ul-Islam.
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November 15: The Pakistan Government
proscribes, under the Anti-Terrorist Act 1997, the Khuddam-ul-Islam
(KI - formerly known as Jaish-e-Mohammed [JeM]).
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November 15: Khudamul Islam (KI - formerly
known as Jaish-e-Mohammed [JeM]) is proscribed.
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September 21: Four JeM terrorists are
killed during an encounter with the security forces in the Gulgam
forest area of Kupwara district.
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September 20: Two Jaish terrorists
and two SF personnel are killed and two SF personnel, including
a Major, are injured during an encounter at Tarkundi in the Gambhir
area of Rajouri district
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September 18: Media report indicates
that JeM chief Maulana Masood Azhar met Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal
(MMA) leaders recently and promised them his support.
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September 17: Nasir Mehmood Awan alias
Ansar, a senior 'commander' of the Jaish-e-Mohammed, is killed during
an encounter with the security forces at Danmar in the Iddgah locality
of capital Srinagar.
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September 16: The JeM warns that it
would target Indian leaders in suicide attacks that would be "shocking
for India". A Jaish spokesperson Wali Hassan Baba reportedly said
during a telephonic interview with the Associated Press that the
attacks would be retaliation for the killing of Shahnawaz Khan aka
Ghazi Baba, 'operational chief' of the outfit, by Indian security
forces in Srinagar on August 30.
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September 10: Five Pakistan-based terrorist
groups, including the Jaish-e-Mohammed, which were proscribed by
President Pervez Musharraf on January 12, 2002, are currently functioning
openly under changed identities, according to the Herald.
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September 8: While acknowledging the
killing of its 'operational chief' Gazi Baba alias Shahnawaz Khan
during an encounter on August 30, the JeM appoints Sahrai Baba in
his place. Pakistani Urdu daily Jung quoted Jaish 'deputy supreme
commander' Wali Hasan as saying that Abu Dajana has been appointed
as Sahrai's deputy in Jammu and Kashmir.
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August 30: Two terrorists, including
Shahnawaz Khan alias Gazi Baba, operational chief of the Jaish-e-Mohammed
in Jammu and Kashmir and a key accused in the December 13, 2001
Parliament attack case, are killed in an encounter with the Border
Security Force in Noorbagh locality of Srinagar.
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August 27: The Buner Police arrest
at least ten terrorists affiliated to the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)
after a clash between two groups of the outfit over an internal
dispute near Ghaurghushti Town in Peshawar.
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August 19: Three JeM terrorists are
killed during an encounter at Kaninwali in the Pulwama district
of south Kashmir.
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July 27: Three foreign mercenaries
affiliated to the Jaish-e-Mohammed are killed at village Kakora
under the jurisdiction of Manjakote police station in Rajouri district.
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July 14: Three JeM terrorists are killed
and three security force personnel injured during an encounter at
Fatlipora village, Budgam district.
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July 6: Asadullah Farooqi, reportedly
a 'financial advisor' of the JeM, is killed during an encounter
at Chota Nar in the Dodaj area of Darhal.
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July 5: According to The Friday Times,
the JeM, rechristened as the Khuddam-ul-Islam, has split following
the expulsion of the outfit's Karachi unit chief Abdullah Shah Mazhar
by the Jaish chief Maulana Masood Azhar.
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July 1: Abdul Jabbar, former 'supreme
commander' of the JeM, is reportedly arrested in Midhranjha, a town
near Sargodha, for his alleged involvement in two terrorist attacks
on Christian targets during year 2002.
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June 30: Security forces kill four
terrorists, including a 'battalion commander' and a 'company commander'
of the JeM, at Abhama village in the south Kashmir district of Pulwama.
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June 26: Four foreign mercenaries,
including Abu Muaviya, a LeT 'district commander', and an Afghani
identified as Abu Haamid, 'company commander' of the JeM are killed
during an encounter in the Dooraswani forest area of Lolab in Kupwara
district.
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June 12: A former terrorist of the
outlawed JeM is reportedly shot dead by two unidentified assailants
in Sector 5-L, New Karachi police jurisdiction, Karachi.
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June 4: Three JeM terrorists and one
SF personnel are killed while three SF personnel, including a Junior
Commissioned Officer (JCO), and a teenaged girl is injured during
an encounter in the Surankote area of Poonch district.
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May 28: Security forces foil an infiltration
attempt near the Line of Control in the Shahpur Karnetian area of
Poonch sector killing four JeM terrorists.
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May 19: Four women and two children
are beheaded by suspected JeM terrorists at village Chowkian in
the Kot Dhara area of Rajouri district.
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May 15: Maulana Masood Azhar, JeM chief,
arrives in Kotli in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) despite a ban
on his entry.
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May 14: Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK)
government announces a ban on the entry of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)
chief Maulana Masood Azhar into the region.
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May 7: Two Pakistani Jaish cadres,
including a 'district commander', are killed during an encounter
at Chhampora village in the Vilgam forest area of Kupwara district.
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April 29: Two JeM terrorists are killed
after an unsuccessful suicide strike on an SF formation at Drugmulla
in the Kupwara district.
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April 25: SFs foil an infiltration
attempt and kill three JeM terrorists at Sagra village in the Mendhar
sector of Poonch district. One SF personnel is also killed during
the encounter.
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April 24: Two JeM terrorists are killed
and a SF personnel is injured during an encounter in the Sogam forest
area of Kupwara district.
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April 18: A Jaish 'district commander'
is killed during an encounter at Morha Kalali village, Surankote
area of Poonch district.
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April 2: Security forces destroy two
JeM hideouts at Hari Budha, Mandi area of Poonch district, and kill
six foreign mercenaries.
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March 29: Security forces kill three
JeM terrorists, including a 'deputy district commander', in an encounter
in Kishtwar area, Doda district.
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March 14: Two JeM terrorists are killed
in an encounter in Surankote, Poonch district.
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March 12: A JeM terrorist is killed
in an encounter in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
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March 9: Special Task Force personnel
of Uttar Pradesh Police arrest two Jaish terrorists in Muzaffarnagar.
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February 20: Two Jaish terrorists are
killed in encounter at Chewa-Safapora, Baramulla district.
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February 3: Two Pakistani JeM cadres
killed on the Line of Control in Balakote sector of Poonch district.
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February 1: A 'district commander'
of the JeM and SF personnel killed in Bemina, outskirts of Srinagar.
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January 31: Two JeM terrorists killed
during encounter at Nayidgam village in the Shopian area of Pulwama
district.
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January 24: Two foreign mercenaries
of JeM killed in encounter in the Mendhar area of Poonch district.
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January 23: Lahore High Court's Multan
bench refuses to prosecute JeM chief Maulana Masood Azhar on charges
of making an anti-India speech. "It is not a crime to make speeches
against India," rules Judge Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry, while dismissing
the case.
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January 22: JeM 'platoon commander'
Habibullah alias Saifullah killed in encounter in Kudara, about
20km from Bandipore.
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January 14: An unidentified terrorist
kills Ghulam Hassan Chopan, a former spokesperson of the JeM, in
Bemina, on the outskirts of the State capital Srinagar.
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January 13: JeM terrorists kill a Border
Security Force (BSF) personnel and injure another at Batmaloo General
Bus Stand in Srinagar.
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January 8: In view of the growing resentment
against the 'burqa and anti-education drive', JeM withdraws directive
through posters issued in the name of its 'Central Jehad Council'
and pasted in Khablan, Darhal and Thanna Mandi areas, Rajouri district.
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January 5: Three JeM terrorists, including
Kamran Khan alias Khijjar, a 'commander', are killed in an encounter
in Devla village, Mahore area of Udhampur district.
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January 4: Two Jaish terrorists, including
a 'commander', are killed in Karmula village, Tral area of Pulwama
district.
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January 3: Two foreign mercenaries
of the JeM are killed and three Border Security Force (BSF) personnel
injured in an encounter preceded by an explosion in Laani village,
Gool area of Udhampur district.
2002
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December 18: A special
court in Delhi sentences to death Mohammad Afzal and Shaukat Hussain
Guru, JeM terrorists, in the December 13, 2001-Parliament attack
case.
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December 16: A special
court in Delhi convicts Mohammad Afzal and Shaukat Hussain Guru,
JeM terrorists, in the Parliament attack case for various offences
under POTA,
Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Explosive Substances Act.
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December 14: A three-member
Review Board of Lahore High Court orders that JeM chief Maulana
Masood Azhar be released.
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November 29: Canada
designates the JeM and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen as terrorist groups.
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November 21: Three
JeM terrorists and an SF personnel are killed in an encounter in
Hafruda forest area, Kupwara-Handwara belt.
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November 11: Two front-ranking
JeM terrorists, including ‘area commander’ Imtiyaz Ahmed alias Mohammed
Faran, are killed in an encounter in Kurl Chajla, Mankot area, Mendhar.
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October 21: A suspected JeM terrorist,
one of the 12 accused arrested for plotting to kill Chief Minister
Narendra Modi, is killed in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
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October 19: JeM 'commander' A B Usmaan
is killed in Dulligam village, Banihal area of Doda district, during
a search operation.
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September 29: Three JeM terrorists
are killed in an encounter in Chunti Pathri and Satarseeran in Kreeri.
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September 16: An Additional Sessions
Judge in Dera Ghazi Khan grants bail to JeM chief Maulana Masood
Azhar. On the other hand, the Home Secretary, on the same day, extends
Azhar 's detention for a further period of 90 days.
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September 13: Detained JeM terrorist
Mohammad Afzal, allegedly a key conspirator in the December 2001-Parliament
attack case, denies charges that he had a hand in the attack.
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September 9: A JeM 'battalion commander'
is killed in encounter in Dangarpora, Anantnag district. September
1: Two JeM terrorists, including a foreign mercenary, are killed
in encounter near Shopian, Pulwama district.
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August 28: A Bahawalpur court extends
till September 10, 2002 the judicial remand of JeM chief Maulana
Masood Azhar.
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August 19: A JeM terrorist is arrested
in connection with a bomb blast at a madrassa (seminary) in Sahiwal,
Pakistan, on August 16, in which a suspected JeM terrorist was killed.
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August 18: Three JeM terrorists, including
a 'commander', arrested in Multan, Pakistan.
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August 16: Suspected JeM terrorist
killed and another injured, reportedly while assembling a bomb at
a madrassa (seminary) in Sahiwal district, Pakistan.
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August 9: Four JeM terrorists killed
in Tangdhar sector of Kupwara district.
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July 30: Lahore High Court extends
detention of JeM chief Maulana Masood Azhar till August 15, 2002.
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July 18: A JeM 'commander', who has
taken shelter at a house in Banihal town, from July 17 night, and
was holding 15 members of the family hostage, is killed.
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July 16: Two JeM cadres killed in an
encounter at Chhamb Kailan Dhok, in Loran area, Poonch district.
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May 12: United States reportedly agrees
to let Pakistan try Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a JeM top-terrorist
and prime accused in the abduction-cum-murder of US journalist Daniel
Pearl, before initiating any moves seeking his extradition.
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May 9: Three front-ranking
terrorists of the JeM killed in an encounter at Karnatian dhok in
the Shahpur village of Mandi sector.
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April 28: Three JeM
terrorists killed in an encounter in Pitha Sahib village near Morha
Kalar in the Behrot area of Thanna Mandi.
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April 5: Notification
issued on the regular trial of the four JeM cadres, accused in the
abduction cum murder case of US journalist Daniel Pearl. The trial
would commence inside the Central Prison in Karachi.
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March 25: Maulana
Masood Azhar, chief of the proscribed JeM, shifted to his residence
in Kausar Colony, Bahawalpur, from the Mianwali Jail.
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March 24: Security
forces arrest a six-member group of JeM terrorists from the Kunzar
area of Tangmarg.
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March 17: Foreign
Minister Abdus Sattar says in Lahore that JeM terrorist Omar Sheikh
will be interrogated in Pakistan.
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March 14: US Attorney
General John Ashcroft is quoted as announcing the indictment of
British-born JeM terrorist Omar Sheikh
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March 14: Adnan alias
Sunny, a JeM cadre and self-claimed killer of Pearl, is arrested
in Lahore,. He appears at a local Urdu daily's office and claims
he had slain Pearl.
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March 10: Three JeM
terrorists, including a hardcore terrorist, Zubair Afghani, killed
in an encounter in the Naika Majari forests, Gursai area, Mendhar.
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March 7: Reports indicate
that US law enforcement officials are seeking the extradition of
several other suspects, besides JeM terrorist Ahmed Omar Sheikh,
who have been linked to the 1999-hijacking of an Indian air craft,
IC-814.
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March 5: The constitutional
petition filed by Sadia Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, wife of JeM terrorist
Omar Sheikh, prime suspect in Pearl case, seeking a restraining
order against his extradition, is disposed-of by a division bench
of the Sindh High Court.
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February 22: Two Pakistani
mercenaries of the JeM killed in an encounter at Hardu Bani in the
Baramulla district.
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February 18: Two foreign
mercenaries of the JeM killed in an encounter at Rajara in Poonch
district. Separately, two Pakistani JeM mercenaries, including a
‘district commander’, killed in an encounter at Matti-Gawran in
the Anantnag district.
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February 12: Sheikh
Ahmed Omar Saeed, front ranking terrorist of the JeM and prime suspect
in Pearl's abduction case arrested in Lahore.
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February 5: Police
in Karachi arrest three cadres of the proscribed JeM in the US journalist
Daniel Pearl abduction case.
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February 4: The JeM,
in a statement, says it would confine its activities to J&K
and suspend its terrorist attacks in other parts of India. It further
says it would also revive suicide attacks to target security force
establishments and vital installations in J&K.
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January 28: Three
JeM terrorists killed in an encounter in Poonch district.
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January 12: JeM among
five terrorist outfits proscribed, announces President Pervez Musharraf
during a televised address to the nation.
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January 12: Two JeM
terrorists killed in an encounter at Matti-Gawran in Kokernag.
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January 11: Maulana
Masood Azhar, JeM chief, detained for three months under the provisions
of the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) Ordinance in Pakistan for
making provocative speeches against government policies.
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January 7: Seven JeM
terrorists, including a ‘district commander’, killed in an encounter
at Golad, Poonch district.
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January 4: Two Pakistani
mercenaries of the JeM killed in an encounter at Kalaban, Poonch.
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January 2: JeM says
it is shifting its offices to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) to escape
a crackdown by Pakistani authorities. JeM leader Mohammed Abdullah
says the outfit’s leaders would infiltrate into J&K, despite
heavy Indian security.
2001
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December 29 – Masood Azhar and 29 other
outfit members arrested by security forces from Bhawalpur. A day
later, he was remanded to police custody for three months and shifted
to Mianwali jail in Lahore.
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December 26 – Masood Azhar briefly
detained for four hours at Hyderabad by police while on his way
to Bhawalpur. He was leaving Karachi after the outfit was declared
a Foreign Terrorist Organisation by US.
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December 21 – Suspected JeM terrorists
kill three women and injure a fourth in Poshkreeri, Anantnag district.
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December 20 – In a statement, Mohammed
Afzal, arrested for involvement in the attack on India’s Parliament,
said that he had harboured and aided the terrorists responsible
for the attack under the guidance of Ghazi Baba, JeM’s chief commander
for J&K.
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December 19 – Masood Azhar, speaking
in Bhawalpur, Pakistan, denies that his outfit was responsible for
the attack on India’s Parliament.
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December 14 – India’s External Affairs
Minister holds JeM along with LeT responsible for attack on Parliament.
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December 13 – Five terrorists, later
identified as Pakistani JeM mercenaries, attack India’s Parliament
in New Delhi. Eight security force personnel, a parliament staff
member and the five mercenaries are killed.
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October 1 – Four terrorists, later
identified as Pakistani JeM mercenaries, attack the J&K Legislature
Complex in Srinagar. 10 SF personnel and the four mercenaries among
32 killed in the attack. While the JeM claimed responsibility for
the attack on the same day, it withdrew the claim two days later.
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August 26 – Qutub Din, an Afghan termed
as a top 'commander' of the organisation, killed along with two
bodyguards at Khangar Hills, Poonch.
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June 5 - 11 JeM terrorists, killed
in separate operations in Poonch.
2000
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April 19 – A Jaish terrorist perpetrates
the State’s first human bomb attack outside the Army headquarters
in Srinagar. There were, however, no casualties except for the human
bomb.
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January 31 – The organisation is launched
in Karachi by Maulana Masood Azhar
1999
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