New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday arrested Pakistan’s Muzaffarabad-based Hizbul Mujahideen supreme commander Syed Salahuddin’s son, Syed Shakeel Ahmed, during a raid, police said.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday arrested Pakistan’s Muzaffarabad-based Hizbul Mujahideen supreme commander Syed Salahuddin’s son, Syed Shakeel Ahmed, during a raid here, police said.
Salahuddin’s another son Syed Shahid Yousuf, another son of Salahuddin was arrested in connection with an alleged terror funding case. Shahid is currently lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail.
Shahid who was posted as an agricultural assistant in Soibugh was suspended from his job following his arrest in October 2017.
The US government had in August last year designated militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen as ‘foreign terrorist organisation’.
“Hizbul Mujahideen is led by Specially Designated Global Terrorist Mohammad Yusuf Shah, also known as Syed Salahuddin. Hizbul Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for several attacks, including the April 2014 explosives attack in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, which injured 17 people,” a statement issued by the US Department of State had said.
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