IS-inspired groups trying for J&K toehold

The Hindu
Peerzada Sadiq, March 27, 2018

A police assessment says they are trying to get in touch with handlers in Afghanistan, Syria
The number of recruits of the Islamic State-J&K and Al-Qaeda-motivated Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind in the Kashmir Valley “may be in single digits, but they are making desperate attempts to get in touch with their handlers in Afghanistan and Syria to widen their base here,” according to an ongoing police assessment.

The fresh assessment was spurred by the killing of Muhammad Taufeeq of Hyderabad on March 11, along with Eisa Fazili and Syed Owais Shafi, in Anantnag’s Hakoora. Taufeeq, who first joined the Zakir Musa-headed Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind in 2017 and quit the outfit to be a part of the IS-J&K, “reflects a fierce competition even within the two extreme ideologies at its nascent stage in J&K,” it says.

The Union Home Ministry had said in the Rajya Sabha in January that “nothing has been proved on the ground that the ISIS is operating in the Valley.” But the latest police investigation has laid its hands on two audio clips “released from Afghanistan’s Khorasan province,” which security agencies believe is home to IS’s Afghanistan chapter. “One audio, released in February, was from Afghanistan. The voice is of a Kashmiri and it is a worrying trend,” said a police officer, who is analysing the audio clips.

In the latest audio released last week, one Muhammad Dawood alias Burhan Musaib asks youth in J&K to “fear Allah and side with the righteous.” “Join those who are truthful to Allah and his path,” said the voice in Kashmiri-accented Urdu. The five-minute audio clip was peppered with Quranic verses in the backdrop.

Dawood names ‘Amir’ Esa Fazili, a Srinagar youth killed on March 11, and Mugees Ahmad Mir alias Mugees Bhai alias Khattab, killed in a Srinagar shootout on November 17, 2017, as the affiliates of a new group that took “bayaat” (an Islamic way of swearing allegiance) to Ameer-ul-Mumineen Abu Al Bakar Baghdadi on October 23, 2017 at an unknown destination.

“Who Baghdadi is remains a matter of investigation.... Is it the same Baghdadi who founded the IS in Iraq or a new figure based in Afghanistan...” said a counter-militancy officer.

The latest audio asks members of the Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen (TuM), that had Fazili and Mir among its cadre, “to break away from TuM’s ranks as it worked under the directions of ‘tagooti’ (imperialist) Pakistan.”

New ideology

“The new ideology in Kashmir forks out from two points... the growing irrelevance of Hurriyat in delivering a viable way out of the Kashmir problem and, second, the policies of Pakistan on Kashmir separatism and monopoly over its militancy. Both these narratives are used to create a new space for militancy and new Islamist politics in J&K,” said a senior police official. “The central slogan of the new outfit remains ‘Al Wala Wal Bara’ (Love and hate for Allah’s sake). However, it will be alarmist to claim both IS and Al-Qaeda have arrived in J&K.”

Reference; http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/is-inspired-groups-trying-for-jk-toehold/article23358404.ece

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