On Saturday, July 11, eleven government officials in the Jammu and Kashmir administration were terminated for having jihad terror links. Four of these dismissed officials are from Anantnag, three from Budgam, and one each from Srinagar, Baramulla, Kupwara, and Pulwama. Four were working in the Education Department, two were in the Jammu and Kashmir Police department, and others enjoyed various positions in the departments of Power, Skill Development, Health, Agriculture, and Sher E Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Srinagar.
Interestingly, two of the dismissed government employees were sons of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen founder Syed Salahudin, Syed Ahmad Shakeel and Shahid Yousuf. Hizb-ul-Mujahideen is a secessionist Islamic terrorist group operating in Indian-administered Kashmir to separate Kashmir from India and unite it with Pakistan. The jihad group has caused major unrest and plotted terror activities in the valley since its inception in 1989. The Indian government must be immensely generous to extend administrative positions to family members of the founder of an Islamic terror outfit, because no other rationale justifies entrusting the relatives of a terrorist with sensitive information.
The Union government had long suspected some government employees in Jammu and Kashmir of being involved in anti-national or terror activities. To identify these officials and tighten the noose around them, the government in July 2020 established a six-member committee for scrutinizing and recommending cases under Article 311 (2)(c) of the Constitution of India.
In its second meeting, the committee recommended three cases for termination of service, and in its fourth meeting, which was held recently, they recommended eight such cases. The recommendations abide by the applicable provisions of the Indian Constitution.
One of the three officials designated for dismissal during the second meeting is an Orderly of Industrial Training Institute, Kupwara, who has been sharing sensitive information about the movement of security forces with the Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba. As an overground accomplice of the LeT, the Orderly has harbored terrorists and abetted them in executing terror plans clandestinely.
Two teachers from the Anantnag District were also dismissed in the second meeting. Guilty of partaking in anti-national activities, they were accused of supporting and propagating the secessionist ideology peddled by the Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DeM) and Jamat-e-Islami (JeI) among the Kashmiri youth. The Dukhtaran-e-Millat is part of a banned terrorist organization, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference. Jamat-e-Islami is another Islamic group promoting Islamic supremacy and Muslim brotherhood above nationality.
Among the eight government officials recommended for removal in the fourth meeting, two were serving as constables in the Jammu and Kashmir Police force; they supported terror activities from within the police department. They passed confidential information to jihad terrorists and provided them with significant logistical support. Constable Abdul Rashid Shigan has also carried out attacks on Indian security forces.
The two sons of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen founder Syed Salahudin, Syed Ahmad Shakeel and Shahid Yousuf, have been fired for involving in terror funding. The National Investigation Agency (India’s counter-terrorism task force) has tracked their terror funding, tracing their involvement in raising, collecting, receiving and transferring money through Hawala transactions and channelling them towards various terror activities plotted by the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen.
The next government employee to go down in the fourth meeting of the committee was Naaz M. Allaie. Despite being an Orderly of the Health Department, Allaie was associated with the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen as an overground worker. He has been found to have had direct involvement in several jihad terror activities in the past and had harbored two notorious terrorists at his residence.
The next two officials recommended for dismissal were Jamat-e-Islami ideologues Nisar Ahmad Tantray and Jabbar Ahmad Paray. They were employed with the Education Department and were terminated for furthering the secessionist agenda introduced into the valley by Pakistani elements.
Shaheen Ahmad Lone, an Inspector of the Power Department, was also fired for partaking in jihad terror activities, including smuggling and transporting arms and ammunition for Hizb-ul Mujahideen. In January last year, Lone was spotted traveling with a couple of terrorists on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway, assisting them in transporting weapons and explosives.
The Muslim intelligentsia in India has played the victim card extensively and exhaustively, and successfully portrayed themselves as a hapless marginalized community. Their myriad complaints include claims of being denied jobs and representation in the bureaucracy. Left-leaning media houses build on these claims and produce lengthy accounts of injustices meted out to Indian Muslims. However, Muslims occupy almost all the key ranks in the J&K administration, and this is where we are today.
gravenimage says
India: Eleven government officials in Jammu and Kashmir terminated for jihad terror links
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That they were fired is good–but I wonder how more there are just like them in Kashmir and Jammu?
Infidel says
On a somewhat related note, I agree w/ Sanjay Dixit of Jaipur Dialogues, who’s been pretty critical of the Modi government for keeping Jammu as a part of Jammu and Kashmir, instead of separating it from Kashmir and giving it its own state/union territory status. Jammu is a Hindu majority area, where inexplicably, Rohingyas from Bangladesh have been settled. Instead, India, when it abolished Article 370, should have trifurcated that state into Kashmir, Kadakh and Jammu, and included Pak-occupied areas in Kashmir (on paper)
Check Burry says
Terminated eh, so now it means sacked, not terminated.