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 in Srinagar. Shakeel, who used to work as a laboratory technician in Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura, has been under the NIA scanner for his alleged involvement in a 2011 terror funding case.[Read More…]
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US designates Hizb chief Syed Salahuddin as global terrorist
The US designated Syed Salahuddin, chief of Kashmiri militant group Hizbul Mujahideen, as a global terrorist, hours before President Donald Trump’s bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday. The Ministry of External Affairs’ spokesperson Gopal Baglay applauded the designation. He said that this “vindicates India’s long-standing position that[Read More…]