SRINAGAR: India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) said on Sunday it conducted raids at nearly five dozen places linked to banned religious organization Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) in Jammu and Kashmir in an alleged terrorism funding case.
The government accuses Jamaat-e-Islami of supporting militancy in Indian-controlled Kashmir, which is at the heart of decades of conflict with Muslim Pakistan.
India’s main counter-terrorism arm said in a statement that members of the organization have collected funds domestically and abroad through donations for the charity and welfare activities, but the funds were instead used for violent and secessionist activities.
“The funds raised by JeI are also being channelled to proscribed terrorist organizations such as Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Taiba and others through well organized networks of JeI cadres,” the agency said.
The agency raided premises of the association’s leadership, its members and also trusts run by JeI.
The NIA also said JeI had motivated impressionable youth in Kashmir and recruited new members in Jammu and Kashmir to participate in disruptive secessionist activities.
JeI was banned by the Indian government after a militant strike in Kashmir more than two years ago, which was claimed by a Pakistan-based militant group and in which 40 Indian troops were killed when a suicide bomber rammed his car into a bus carrying para-military troops.
The JeI could not be reached for comment on Sunday. It has not previously commented on its funding but has said it had not done anything to invite the ban.
India raids banned Jamaat-e-Islami in alleged terror funding case
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India raids banned Jamaat-e-Islami in alleged terror funding case
- New Delhi accuses Jamaat-e-Islami of supporting militancy in Indian-controlled Kashmir
- India’s main investigative agency raided premises of the association’s leadership, members and trusts run by JeI
Germany plays down threat of US invading Greenland after talks
WASHINGTON: Germany’s top diplomat on Monday played down the risk of a US attack on Greenland, after President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to seize the island from NATO ally Denmark.
Asked after meeting Secretary of State Marco Rubio about a unilateral military move by Trump, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said: “I have no indication that this is being seriously considered.”
“Rather, I believe there is a common interest in addressing the security issues that arise in the Arctic region, and that we should and will do so,” he told reporters.
“NATO is only now in the process of developing more concrete plans on this, and these will then be discussed jointly with our US partners.”
Wadephul’s visit comes ahead of talks this week in Washington between Rubio and the top diplomats of Denmark and Greenland, which is an autonomous territory of Denmark.
Trump in recent days has vowed that the United States will take Greenland “one way or the other” and said he can do it “the nice way or the more difficult way.”
Greenland’s government on Monday repeated that it would not accept a US takeover under “any circumstance.”
Greenland and NATO also said Monday that they were working on bolstering defense of the Arctic territory, a key concern cited by Trump.
Trump has repeatedly pointed to growing Arctic activity by Russia and China as a reason why the United States needs to take over Greenland.
But he has also spoken more broadly of his desire to expand the land mass controlled by the United States.
