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BODO LIBERATION TIGER FORCE (BLTF)
The Bodo Liberation Tiger Force was established on June 18, 1996, under the leadership of Prem Singh Brahma. The body projects its
major objectives as creation of a separate state of Bodoland in the north bank of the Brahmaputra, creation of an autonomous district
council in the south bank of the Brahmaputra, and inclusion of the Bodos of Karbi Anglong district in the Sixth Schedule of the Indian
Constitution.
Hagrama Basumatary is the chairman-cum-commander-in-chief of the group. Other important leaders include vice-chairman Kamal
Mushahray alias Chandran Narzari, publicity secretary Mainao Daimary, and secretary general Derhasat Basumatary. Kokrajhar,Dhubri, Bongaigaon, Barpeta, Nalbari and Darrang districts of Assam constitute its areas of operation.
LASHKAR-E-OMAR
Lashkar-e-Omar is a new terrorist group reportedly founded in January 2002 and is a conglomerate of Harkat-ul-Jihad-i-Islami (HuJI)
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) cadres. It was formed after the arrests of several front-ranking Islamist leaders
in Pakistan following Musharraf's address to the nation on January 12, 2002, in which he committed himself to dismantling the
structures and networks of terrorism based in his country.
The etymology of Lashkar-e-Omar is yet not clear. According to some reports, it is named after Mullah Mohammed Omar, chief of the
Taliban militia. Other reports have indicated that the name is allegedly a direct homage to Syed Ahmed Omar Sheikh, a front-rankingJeM terrorist who was, on July 15, 2002, sentenced to life by an Anti-Terrorism Court in Hyderabad, Sindh, for his role in the
abduction-cum-murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl. The LeO first came into prominence in November 2001 when it reportedly
claimed responsibility for an attack on a church in Bahawalpur in Punjab. A policeman and 17 Christians, including five children, were
killed and nine others injured when six unidentified gunmen opened indiscriminate fire at a church in Model Town, Bahawalpur, on
October 28, 2001.
HIZB-UL-MUJAHIDEEN (literal meaning: party of freedom fighters)
Of the terrorist outfits currently operating in Jammu and Kashmir, the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) is the one of the largest, with a cadre
base drawn from indigenous and foreign sources. It is one of the most important terrorist outfits in terms of its effectiveness in
perpetrating violence across the state at regular intervals. The HM is one of the 32 outfits proscribed under the Prevention of Terrorism
Act, 2002.
The HM came into being in the Kashmir Valley in September 1989 with Master Ahsan Dar as its chief. Dar was later arrested by security
forces in mid-December 1993. The group was reportedly formed as the militant wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), an Islamist
organisation. The Jamaat-e-Islami is reported to have set up the Hizb at the behest of the ISI, Pakistan's external intelligence agency, to
counter the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), which had advocated complete independence of the state. Many of the early
Hizb cadres were former JKLF members.
HARKAT-UL-ANSAR(also known as Harkat-ul Mujahideen)
The Harkat-ul-Ansar was formed by the merger of two Pakistani groups, Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami and Harkat-ul-Mujahedin, and led
by Maulana Saadatullah Khan. The merger of these two political groups and its transformation into a militant group came about as part
of the Afghan jihad. With a pan-Islamic ideology, the outfit strove to achieve the secession of Jammu and Kashmir from India through
violent means and its eventual merger with Pakistan.
About 60 per cent of its estimated 1000-strong cadre were Pakistanis and Afghans. The Harkat-ul-Ansar was termed a terrorist
organization by the US due to its association with exiled Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden in 1997. To avoid the repercussions of the US
ban, the group was recast as the Harkat ul-Mujahideen in 1998. Based in Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, the
Harkat-ul-Ansar has participated in insurgent and terrorist operations in Kashmir, Myanmar, Tajikistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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In Kashmir, the outfit had carried out several operations against Indian troops besides attacks on civilian targets. In
the process, several of its top leaders, including Masood Azhar (general secretary and top idologue), Sajjad Afghani
(commander of the Harkat-ul-Ansar in Jammu and Kashmir) and Nasarullah Manzoor Langaryal (commander of
the erstwhile Harkat-ul-Mujahedin) were captured by Indian security forces. With all these arrests, the outfit
gradually lost its influence in the state's militancy.
LASHKAR-E-TAIBA(literal meaning: army of the pure)
Formed in 1990 in the Kunar province of Afghanistan, the Lashkar-e-Taiba (also known as Jama'at-ud-Da'awa) is based in Muridkenear Lahore in Pakistan and is headed by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. Its first presence in Jammu and Kashmir was recorded in 1993
when 12 Pakistani and Afghan mercenaries infiltrated across the Line of Control in tandem with the Islami Inquilabi Mahaz, a terrorist
outfit then active in the Poonch district of the state.
The LeT is outlawed in India under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. It was included in the Terrorist Exclusion List by the US
government on December 5, 2001. The US administration designated the Lashkar-e-Taiba as a FTO (Foreign Terrorist Organization) on
December 26, 2001. It is also a banned organization in Britain since March 30, 2001. The group was proscribed by the United Nations
in May 2005. The military regime of Pervez Musharraf banned the Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan on January 12, 2002.
JAISH-E-MOHAMMAD MUJAHIDEEN-E-TANZEEM(JeM) (literal meaning: the army of Mohammad)
The Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) has been held responsible for the terrorist attack on parliament in New Delhi. The outfit has been
banned by the government under provisions of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) on October 25, 2001. The US Secretary of State,
Colin Powell, in a notification on December 26, 2001, designated the outfit as a foreign terrorist organistation. JeM is a relatively new
terrorist outfit, compared to other major outfits active in Jammu and Kashmir.
Like the Lashkar-e-Taiba the JeM, too, is an outfit formed, controlled and manned by Pakistan. The outfit was launched on January 31,
2000 by Maulana Masood Azhar in Karachi. The outfit's creation can be linked to the popularity surrounding Masood Azhar after his
release from India. Maulana Masood Azhar was the general secretary of the newly-established Harkat-ul-Ansar (HuA) in 1994 and was
on a 'mission' in J&K when he was arrested on February 11.
AL BADR
Al Badr, currently an active terrorist outfit in Jammu and Kashmir, was proscribed by the government of India on April 1, 2002 under
the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance-2001, which became the Prevention of Terrorism Act on April 28, 2002. It is also designated as
a Foreign Terrorist Organization in the United States. The Al Badr was formed in June 1998 with the professed goal of strengthening the
'Kashmiri freedom struggle' and to 'liberate' Jammu and Kashmir and merge it with Pakistan.
The outfit advocates that Kashmiris should be given the right of self-determination in accordance with the United Nations resolutions.
Al Badr reportedly traces its origins to 1971 when a group of the same name carried out attacks on Bengalis in what was then known as
East Pakistan. The group also operated as part of the Hizb-e-lslami (HIG) of warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in Afghanistan during the
1980s.
LASHKAR-E-JABBAR
The existence of Lashkar-e-Jabbar was first reported by the local media in Jammu and Kashmir in August 2001 following two incidents
In the first incident, two unidentified youth poured diluted acid on two school teachers in the Khanyar area of Srinagar on August 7. The
next day, an armed terrorist threatened all students and teachers of a girls school in Srinagar of violence unless they adopt 'Islamic'
dress codes.
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Following these incidents, an unidentified person is reported to have informed the local media in Srinagar that his outfit, the Lashkar-e-
Jabbar, was responsible for these attacks. He added that the outfit meant "business in implementing the Islamic dress code in
Kashmir". According to their interpretations, Muslim women must always wear the burqa in public. News reports in the aftermath of
this information have also claimed that these attacks were preceded by isolated incidents of firing by unidentified terrorists on unveiled
women in south Kashmir in the past two months which left three women injured.
TEHRIK-UL-MUJAHIDEEN
The Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen (TuM) was formed in June 1990 by Yunus Khan, a close associate of Mohammed Abdullah Tairi, chief ofthe Jammu and Kashmir Jamaat-e-Ahle-Hadith. The TuM aims to merge Jammu and Kashmir with Pakistan and also promote a pan-
Islamist identity. The protection of Asidih community, a small faction of Sunni Muslims, was a prime motivating factor for the outfit in
its early days. Sheikh Jamil-ur-Rehman is the Amir (chief) of the organization. Maulana Fazlur Rahman, chief of his own faction of the
Jamiat-Ulema-e-Islam and currently member of the National Assembly (MNA), is the patron of the Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen. The group
suffered major setbacks in its early years when its founder Yunus Khan, then 'commander-in-chief', was killed in an encounter in 1991.
Mohammed Salim Miron, who returned from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) in July 1991 succeeded him. Later, in 1999, security
forces in J&K killed its 'commander' Abu Waseem Salafi.