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During the past few years National Investigation Agency (NIA) has launched a massive crackdown on terror funding in Jammu and Kashmir and has choked the Hawla channels through which illegal money used to flow into the Union Territory.
The NIA’s action has broken the back of separatists and the terrorist supporters who used this money to fuel unrest in J&K.
After self styled Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani was killed in an encounter with the security forces in 2016, the separatists and Pakistan stooges sponsored protests across Kashmir by pumping huge money.
Many videos went viral in which youth openly admitted that they indulged in stone pelting for the sake of money. Most of these stone-pelters were unemployed youths. They were paid Rs 500 to Rs 1,000 per day, for pelting stones.
The NIA investigation revealed that militant sympathizers used hawala channels, to avoid the risk of getting caught.
Militant organisations used Kashmiris travelling to the Middle East for work. After getting brainwashed thoroughly they were persuaded to receive a certain sum of money in their bank accounts. Once the money reached the account, it was withdrawn within a matter of a few hours or days. A part of the entire sum was left for the account holder as commission.
First step the NIA took to check the protests in the Valley in 2016 was that it looked into the dates of withdrawals made from at least 17 bank accounts in which transactions worth Rs 38 crore had taken place. Some withdrawals had taken place on the eve of the protests that were orchestrated in different parts of Kashmir.
The noose on terror funding was further tightened after a LeT militant, Bahadur Shah, after his arrest in 2016 revealed that Pakistan was involved in Kashmir unrest and it was pumping in huge money to keep the pot boiling.
The investigations carried out by NIA led to many skeletons tumbling out of the cupboards and brought to fore how the separatists were earning money by sponsoring protests. Not only the separatists, many small-time businessmen too were making hay when the sun was shining by taking commissions for transferring the money into different accounts.
But the NIA tightening its noose around these agents has helped in improving the situation to a great extent. The premiere agency deserves all the credit for curbing terror funding in Jammu and Kashmir. |
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