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| Agencies worried about involvement of teachers in terror activities | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 30: The involvement of teachers in terror activities raised alarm among higher-ups of the security agencies because after repeated intervals teachers were found involved in preaching terrorism.
Although some terror-friendly teachers have been sacked during the last two years, the direct involvement of many others were established in terror activities.
Within two months after arresting a government teacher for handling a cross-border terror module in Poonch district, security forces on Saturday busted another terror module in the Karnah area of Kupwara.
Five terrorists were arrested and a government teacher was heading this cross-border terror module. The arrested terrorists were involved in collecting arms smuggled from across the border by two Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) based terrorists.
Among the five terrorists arrested by the police, Khursheed Ahmad Rather son of the late Mohammad Yousuf Rather resident of Gabra, Karnah was a government teacher.
Earlier in November 2023, Police busted a terror module by arresting three terrorists including a government teacher in the Poonch district.
The terror module- supervised by the government teacher, was working on the directions of the terror mentors sitting across the Line of Control (LoC).
Although questioning of the arrested terrorists is going on, reports said that the module with the help of the government teacher was working to revive terrorism in the twin border districts of Poonch and Rajouri by luring gullible youth to terror ranks.
Accor Some terror-friendly teachers have been sacked during the last two years.
Direct involvement of many others was established in terror activities.
5 terrorists were arrested and a govt teacher was heading the module.
In Feb 2023 J&K Police arrested a teacher-turned-LeT terrorist who triggered twin blasts in Jammu city.
Identities of the arrested terrorists were established as Aijaz Ahmad Sheikh, a Government teacher, son of Abdul Rashid, resident of Sailan, Bufliaz, Mehraj Ahmed son of Maqsood Ahmed R/o Behram Gala, and Gulshan son of Mohammad Sharief of Bunikhet, Bafliaz.
In February 2023 Jammu and Kashmir Police arrested a teacher-turned-Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist who triggered twin blasts in Jammu city.
Arif Ahmad was a government teacher and was an active terrorist of the Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit. He was working at the behest of Qasim, a Reasi resident, and his uncle Qamardin, also a Reasi resident, presently in Pakistan.
According to police, the government school teacher-turned-terrorist was involved in carrying out multiple blasts, including one in a bus carrying Vaishno Devi pilgrims.
Arif, a resident of Reasi district, was arrested following the investigation into the recent twin blast in Jammu’s Narwal that left nine people injured.
Arif was allegedly working at the behest of his Pakistani handlers, according to police.
He has accepted his involvement in bombing the bus carrying Vaishno Devi pilgrims that killed four people last year, an IED explosion in Jammu’s Shastri Nagar area in February 2022 the twin explosions at Narwal on January 21, 2023 |
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