Tablighi Jamaat, the global organisation of Islamic missionaries, which may be the biggest carrier of Covid-19 infection in India, has had a long history of ties with Pakistan-based banned terror outfits like Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), Outlook reports on March 31. The original founders of HuM, were members of Tablighi Jamaat, as per Pakistani security analysts and Indian investigators. As per intelligence estimates, over 6,000 Tablighis were trained in HuM terror camps in Pakistan. The HuM cadre eventually joined the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terror outfit founded by Masood Azhar. As per WikiLeaks documents, some of the 9/11 al Qaeda suspects detained by the US in Guantanamo Bay had stayed in the premises of the Tablighi Jamaat in Nizamuddin West, New Delhi, several years ago. Since millions of Tablighi Jamaat proselytisers travel around the world preaching Islam, much on the lines of the radical Wahhabi-Salafist ideology, the Jamaat developed a large following in Chechnya and Dagestan areas of Russia, Somalia and some other African countries. Oneindia.com adds that in 2016, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a chargesheet in connection with an Islamic State (IS) related case. In its chargesheet, the NIA speaks about the role played by both the Tablighi Jamaat and the Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI). The NIA chargesheet states much before the IS came into existence, members of the Tablighi would circulate propaganda material. At that time around the distribution of such material was not on the internet. They were sermons issued in select mosques and pamphlets and compact discs were distributed. Also for several years now, the Intelligence Bureau (IB) has been warning about the role of the Tablighi Jamaat or JeI.