Drawing
its cadres
from Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT),
Jaish-e-Mohammad
(JeM)
and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen
(HM)
the terrorist
outfit
Harkat-ul-Ansar
(HuA)
is resuming
operations
under
a new
name of
Jabbar-ul-Mujahideen,
reports
Daily
Excelsior
on December
5. Sources
said that
the top
five ‘commanders’
have already
infiltrated
into Jammu
and Kashmir
(J&K)
through
Samba
sector
(Samba
District)
in July
this year.
Shah Chand
Khan is
the ‘commander-in-chief’
of the
outfit
in J&K
and Badshah
Khan,
Noor Mohammad,
Abdul
Razak
and Muneer
Khan are
his associates.
The militant
outfit
is said
to have
close
links
with the
Haqqani
Network.
A meeting
was held
at Lahore
(Pakistan)
on July
10, 2012,
and soon
after
the top
commanders
were ‘launched’.
All the
five ‘commanders’
are said
to be
Pakistani
nationals
with Abdul
Razak
belonging
to Gujranwala
(Gujranwala
District
in Pakistan)
and Muneer
Khan to
Rawalakot,
(Poonch
District)
in Pakistan
occupied
Kashmir
(PoK).
Badshah
Khan who
is the
main ‘commander’
after
Chand
Khan is
brother
of Sajjad
Afghani,
the top
‘commander’
of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen
(HuM)
who was
killed
in Kot-Balwal
Jail break,
Jammu,
in 1999.
Badshah
Khan has
reportedly
visited
his brother's
grave
in Jammu
District
and offered
prayers
there,
soon after
his infiltration.
HuA
was formed
by the
merger
of two
Pakistani
militant
outfits,
Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami
and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen,
and was
led by
Maulana
Saadatullah
Khan and
the organization
took part
in Afghan
war. HuA
was also
operating
in Myanmar,
Tajikistan,
and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
In late
1990s
it was
operating
in Jammu
and Kashmir.
It was
declared
a terrorist
organization
by USA
in 1997
and the
group
then recast
as Harkat-ul-Mujahideen
in 1998. |
