A major terror-funding racket pumping funds to the militants in Jammu and Kashmir via Nepal-Bihar-UP route was unearthed by security agencies, reports Daily Excelsior on March 2. According to the security officials, large amount of hawala money had already been pumped into to the militants in Jammu and Kashmir by operatives using the services of certain jewelers, shopping mall owners and other traders in Nepal and sending money with the help of youths operating in villages of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, bordering Nepal. Officials insist that a number of over-ground workers (OGW) and their sympathisers working at the instance of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Army, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) are involved in the racket and all of them would be rounded up, reports The Shillong Times. According to the modus operandi, Pakistan based ISI, army and militant commanders had been depositing huge cash in the bank accounts of certain Nepal based traders including jewelers, shopping mall owners etc. The Nepal businessmen through their couriers had been utilizing services of the youths putting up in the villages of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, bordering Nepal, and supplying cash to them between Rs 2-5 lakh. The youths, some of whom were influenced by the ideology of Islamic State had been further supplying hawala money to the persons identified by the Nepal based businessmen, in Jammu and Kashmir. The youths were getting part of the money as commission for the trips between Bihar or Uttar Pradesh to Jammu and Kashmir. The recent arrest of Lashkar-e-Mustafa (LeM) Chief, Hidayatullah Malik, unveiled this hawala racket leading arrest of five of his alleged associates including Javaid Alam Ansari, an OGW from Chapra, Bihar. Javaid admitted to having supplied seven country-made pistols to the JeM operatives working under the cover of LeM in lieu of cash.