Pakistan terror groups use women to 'honey trap' youths: Officials
The Economics Times
December 03, 2018
December 03, 2018
Honey
trapping' is one of the new methods used by Pakistan-based terror groups to woo
youths towards militancy and use them as human carriers for delivering arms
from one place to another or acting as guides to infiltrating
terrorists, officials said. An
intelligence-based operation had led to the arrest of Syed Shazia, a woman in
her early 30s from Bandipore, a fortnight ago. It was seen that she had many
accounts on social networking
sites such as Facebook and Instagram which many youths in the Valley followed,
they said.
Officials
from the central security agencies had been keeping a watch on the Internet Protocol
(IP) address used by Shazia for several months. She used to converse with youths
and would promise to meet them only if a certain "consignment" was
delivered from one place to another, the officials said. Shazia had been in
touch with some officials in the police department as well, but the officials
termed it a usual tactic of "double-cross" as she used to report the
movement of troops and "not so sensitive" information to her handlers
across the border.
During
interrogation, she told the investigators about the presence of some more women
in militants ranks who had been tasked with luring youths into militancy, they
said. A week before her arrest on November 17, the Jammu and Kashmir Police had
arrested Aysia Jan (28) for carrying 20 grenades in Lawaypora on the city
outskirts, after receiving inputs
about militants trying to smuggle arms and ammunition into the city.
Besides
grenades, the police had also seized ammunition from her possession, they said.
Her monitoring had started during the probe of a case from September last year
when the police killed Abu Ismail, the Lashker-e-Taiba terror chief in the
valley, and Chotta Qassim.
Both
were involved in last year's gunning down of Amarnath pilgrims in which eight
people were killed.
Some documents and materials were seized from the encounter
site in the outskirts of Srinagar city which indicated that an unidentified
woman hailing from North Kashmir was involved in supplying arms and ammunition
to the two terrorists.
It was in April this year, the woman was identified as Syed
Shazia. Continuous monitoring of her social media presence showed that she was
getting diktats from across the border for honey trapping and luring youths
into militancy from across the border, they said.
She was in constant touch with Sherwan alias Ali of
Jaish-e-Mohammed terror outfit who introduced her to Pakistan-based terrorists
Sufiyan and Qasim Khan Gauri. Later, she started working as an overground
worker from Jaish terror group and was acting as the main conduit for ensuring
delivery of weapons to other parts of the valley.
Before her arrest, a special police officer hailing from
Handwara was picked up by police for informing Shazia that her phone had been
kept on monitoring. It was found that the special police officer identified as
Irfan had been passing information to Shaiza, they said.
She was arrested under various sections of Ranbir Penal Code
(equivalent of IPC) and Arms Act.
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