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Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM) The HUM is responsible for the hijacking of an Indian airliner on 24 December 1999, which resulted in the release of Masood Azhar—an important leader in the former Harakat ul-Ansar imprisoned by the Indians in 1994—and Ahmed Omar Sheik, who was convicted of the abduction/murder in January-February 2002 of US journalist Daniel Pearl. In 2003, HUM began using the name Jamiat ul-Ansar (JUA), and Pakistan banned the successor JUA in November 2003. HUM operated terrorist training camps in eastern Afghanistan until Coalition airstrikes destroyed them during fall 2001. www.fas.org /irp/world/para/hum.htm

Hizb-ul Mujahideen From the nature of activities indulged in by the Hizb-ul Mujahideen, it appears that the outfit provides the local knowledge and support, required by the preferred mercenary outfits of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) such as the Harkat-ul Ansar and the Lashkar-e-Toiba, whose cadre are largely foreign. In turn, the group has also been the target of counter insurgent groups whose members are primarily former terrorists of groups that were decimated by the Hizb-ul Mujahideen during the early nineties, in its endeavour to dominate the insurgency in the State. Reacting to this stand, the MJC's chairman Syed Salaudin disassociated himself and the Hizb-ul Mujahideen from the decision. www.kashmirherald.com /profiles/hizbulmujahhdin.html

Harkat-ul-Mujahideen The Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), a Pakistan-based terrorist outfit, has been in existence twice in the history of that country’s involvement in cross-border terrorism. First, Nasrullah Mansur Langrayal, chief of the former Harkat-ul Mujahideen was arrested in November 1993. The HuM's operational capabilities had been severely curtailed by the formation of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) by Masood Azhar, immediately after his release. www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/india/states/jandk/terrorist_outfits/harkatul_mujahideen.htm

TI1706.htm But when he returned to Pakistan, he decided to break off from Harkat and its splinter, the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, and took the bulk of their cadres to his new outfit. The Harkat’s battle against India is principally in Kashmir and its terrorist activities do not normally extend to other parts of the country. Lashkar-e-Taiba is a newer outfit founded by three university professors in 1987 — Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, Zafar Iqbal and Abdullah Azam. www.nrilinks.com /nrinews/TI1706.htm

Lashkar-e-Toiba These are clear indications that Lashkare-toiba, Harkat-ul Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi are poised to regroup and re-emerge in the coming months as part of Al Qaida’s new plan to extend and consolidate its activities in the Middle East and Asia, especially Saudi Arabia and India. Another terrorist group that is re-emerging under a new nomenclature is Harkat-ul Mujahideen (HM), banned by the US State Department in 1998. A third splinter group was Jaish-e-Mohammad led by a Harkat ideologue Maulana Azhar Masood. www.observerindia.com /analysis/A002.htm

Harkat-Ul-Mujahideen The Harkat-ul-Ansar (HUA) of Pakistan, one of the organisations so notified, was started in central Punjab in Pakistan in the early 1980s by certain religious elements under the name the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HUM) with headquarters at Raiwind in Punjab, where it holds its annual conferences. Internal politics has compelled the removal of Heckmatyar’s Hizbe Islami from the Afghan jehad and his ally Qazi Hussain Ahamad’s Hizbul Mujahideen from the Kashmir jehad. Reverting to the HUM, on September 8,1995, the Pakistani Customs stopped a car carrying a consignment of heavy arms and ammunition near Kohat in the NWFP and arrested its driver and Saifullah Akhtar, an office-bearer of the POK branch of the HUM. www.saag.org /papers/paper42.html

The Hindu : Thursday, September 27, 2001 : Index Northern Alliance is not a silver bullet: U.S. Harkat-ul Mujahideen assets frozen www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2001/09/27/99hdline.htm

The Hindu : Harkat-ul Mujahideen assets frozen The U.S. decision to freeze the accounts of terrorist outfits on its list appears to have had its repercussions here as the Harkat-ul Mujahideen is among the 27 organisations and individuals that figure in it. Pakistan might also announce a ban on the activities of Harkat in the next few days. The Government has also frozen the financial assets of the two militant outfits identified by the U.S. The paper said the Al Rasheed Trust, another organisation banned by the U.S., claimed it had nothing to do with terrorist activities and was working in Afghanistan on humanitarian grounds. www.hindu.com /thehindu/2001/09/27/stories/01270005.htm

Militant Groups in Kashmir: An Analysis is by D The Harkat ul Mujahideen (HuM) was earlier known as the Harkat-ul-Ansar, but changed its name after the US declared it as a terrorist group in 1997.   There are at least three major militant groups active in Kashmir, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and Hizbul Mujahideen besides a number of minor groups such as Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen, Al Badar, Al Barq, Al Jihad etc. Though these groups fought in Kargil under the banner of the United Jihad Council, they do not form a monolithic entity. The HuM belongs to the Deobandi-Wahabi faith and is closely linked to the Maulana Samiul Haq faction of the Jammat-e-Ulama -e-Islam (JUI). pak-terror.freeservers.com /webarticle19.htm

Author Topic: The Iron Grip Tightens yet again (on Kashmir) reggie Member posted 15-11-1999 02:02 The active involvement of Pakistan’s regular forces, including its elite Special Regiments, in aid of the mujahideen is now being taken for granted by the militants. that the mujahideen had not withdrawn but had only relocated themselves and could emerge anywhere anytime. The willingness of militant outfits to directly confront the security forces and avoid civilian targets is not only rewriting the laws of conflict and covert war but is enhancing their image as "warriors for the faithful." The psychological impetus of this will be considerable and must not be discounted. pak-terror.freeservers.com /webarticle2.htm

The Hindu : Pak. orders closure of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen offices A Harkat spokesman said on Friday that the decision of the Musharraf Government to freeze its accounts would not affect the ongoing struggle in Kashmir. Two key leaders of the Harkat, Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman Khalil and Farooq Kashmiri, went into hiding soon after the attacks. The Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman had been emphasising for the last few days that as a responsible member of the U.N., Islamabad would not be found wanting. www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2001/09/30/stories/01300001.htm

HindustanTimes.com - Project Kashmir After being declared a terrorist outfit, the HuA renamed its cadre as Harkat ul-Mujahideen as an eyewash and in a bid to evade the watchful international community in its operations and financial transactions. Harkat ul-Ansar is a terrorist organisation active in Jammu and Kashmir and operating from Muzaffarabad in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) with the sole aim of annexing JandK and merging it with Pakistan. Harkat leadership is reportedly working with Osama Bin Laden. www.hindustantimes.com /news/5797_00290008,76263.htm

Book Review : Osama's universe In the flames of jihad we will see America ablaze." (p.215) The Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islam is also reported to be benefiting from a 25-member al-Qaeda team imparting sophisticated armed training since June 2001. In the Balkans, up to 4,000 foreign mujahideen fought against the Serbs and Croats, with the ferocity of killings by the "guest militants" shocking Bosnian Muslims. Gunaratna speculates that the reason that Pakistan did not extradite Sheikh Omar to America, unlike previous terrorists like Ramzi Yousef, is "because of the complicity of the Pakistani state in his training" in HuM camps. www.kashmirherald.com /bookreviews/osamauniverse.html

PakPac Police said the militants belonged to Harkat-ul Mujahideen Al-alami group, which is a shadowy breakaway faction of the Harkat-ul Mujahideen group fighting Indian forces in the disputed region of Kashmir (news - web sites). Harkat-ul Mujahideen was previously known as Harkat-ul Ansar, but changed its name after being declared a terrorist group by the United States in the late 1990s. However, Abdul Razzaq, Basheer's father, said his son had a long association with Harkat-ul Mujahideen. pakpac.net /News_Article.asp?ID=113

Indian Airlines Plane Hijack: Background Articles The volunteers of the HUM, the Lashkar-e-Toiba and the Al Badr were used by Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the Chief Executive of Pakistan, and Lt.Gen. Mohammad Aziz, his Chief of the General Staff (CGS), for occupying the ridges in the Kargil sector before they were replaced by regular Pakistani army troops. Harkat terrorists have operated under various banners in the past to cloak their activities. Fazlur Rehman Khalil subsequently said that HUM would take revenge on the United States. www.subcontinent.com /sapra/terrorism/tr_1999_12_26.html

Indiainfo.com -> News -> World -> Harkat-ul-Mujahideen office sealed in Pakistan Hizbul Mujahideen, which was considered to be a Kashmiri militant group headed by Saeed Salahuddin, has so far escaped the crackdown. Harkat was not part of the five militant groups banned by President Pervez Musharraf recently but was declared a terrorist organisation by the Unites States last October for its alleged links with al-Qaida and terror mastermind Osama bin Laden. Commenting on the crackdown, diplomatic sources in Pakistan said that though Pakistan authorities have banned and arrested Jaish and Lashkar members, the thrust of the crackdown was mostly confined to the three sectarian outfits, Sipha-e-sehbha of Pakistan, Tehriya-e-Jafriya of Pakistan and Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi. newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2002/01/22/22seal.html

The Fundamentalist Challenge from the New Delhi File; Embassy of India, Washington, DC Actually waging the proxy war, organised and directed by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), are organisations like Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (erstwhile Harkat-ul- Ansar), Lashkar-e-Toiba, Hijb-ul-Mujahideen and Muslim Mujahideen. First, those pulled out of Kargil were not “mujahideen” but regular Pakistan Army troops and irregulars of fundamentalist Islamic terrorist organisations who had been sent by Pakistan itself to occupy positions on the Indian side of the Line of Control (LoC). As Pakistan claims that its role in securing the withdrawal of the “mujahideen” from Kargil has staved off a wider conflict between it and India and calls for, as an unstated quid pro, international mediation in the Kashmir dispute, it will be wise to remember three things. www.indiagov.org /new/NewDelhiPressFile/Kargil_July_1999/Fundamentalist_Challenge_July_16_1999.html

Pakistan Facts - Harkat-ul Mujahideen reincarnates as Jamiat-ul Ansar The biggest Deobandi militant group, Harkat-ul Mujahideen (HM), declared a Foreign Terrorist Organisation by the US State Department in 1998 and banned by Pakistan in November 2001 has re-christened itself Jamiat-ul Ansar (JA). Amir Rana - Harkat-ul Mujahideen is up and about under a new name. However, this plan could not be executed because of resistance within HM. www.pakistan-facts.com /article.php/20030321235452363

The Tanzeems and their leaders The Muslim Mujahideen is now a pro-India militia, operating in the Acchabal area under the command of Ghulam Nabi Azad. Azhar's deputy Maulana Shamzai, launching commander Mufti Mohammad and the organisation's Kashmir Valley commander, Saifullah, are all former Harkat members. Dar, after being kidnapped in May 1992, was forced to set up a new organisation, the Muslim Mujahideen. www.flonnet.com /fl1717/17170200.htm

21 Harkat militants held in Pakistan Harkat ul-Mujahideen is one of several groups believed to have teamed up with radical Islamic groups Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Sipah-e-Sahaba to try and destabilise the government of President Pervez Musharraf because of his support for the US-led war on terrorism. PESHAWAR: Pakistani authorities have arrested 21 Harkat-ul Mujahideen men, an outlawed Islamic militant group and are investigating their suspected links to al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, police said on Thursday. The Harkat-ul Mujahideen, formerly called the Ansar Movement, was founded to fight in Kashmir for its merger with Pakistan and its members are believed to have received training at Osama Bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan. www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/659651/posts

rediff.com US edition: Harkat-ul-Mujahideen ordered to shut offices in Pakistan The Pakistan-based Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), one of the largest militant organisations operating in Jammu and Kashmir, on Saturday announced that it was closing down its offices in Pakistan following orders to that effect by the authorities. Harkat members were seen removing their belongings from their main office in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Terrorist organisations based in Pakistan have been facing the heat ever since terrorists struck at New York's World Trade Centre and the Pentagon in Washington. www.rediff.com /us/2001/sep/29ny9.htm

New Document Therefore, with Jamait-e-Islami's help, the Hizbul Mujahideen started taking centrestage along with Harkat-ul-Ansar which the ISI created by merging Harkat-ul-Jihad-ul-Islam and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. To keep a tight control on the jehadis, these groups were put together under the United Jehad Council led by the Jamait-ul-Mujahideen leader. However, most of it goes to mujahideen fighting in Kashmir. www.suryakumari.com /articles/kashmir1.html

Terrorism - In the Spotlight: Harakat ul-Mujaheddin (HuM) Pakistani authorities have recently arrested three members of Harkat ul-Mujaheddin al-Almi, a HuM sub-faction. Other figures that held key positions throughout the years: Nasrullah Mansur Langrayal, Maulana Masood Azhar and Ahmad Omar Sheik (who were both released from jail in the 1999 Indian Airlines flight hijacking affair), and Sajjad Afghani (who was killed in a jailbreak attempt in 1999). HuM members received ideological and military training in Afghanistan and Kashmir, but the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan forced the group to adjust and close its operations there. www.cdi.org /terrorism/harakat.cfm

Kashmiri group committed hijacking: NYT -DAWN - Top Stories; 26 January, 2000 The White House officials told the Times "that Harkat-ul- Mujahideen and another group, Lashkar-i-Taiba, were used by the Pakistan military during conflicts at the so-called Line of Control in Kashmir. Members of the groups would cross over one point along the line while the Pakistan army would create a disturbance at another, officials said, thus diverting the attention of the Indian army from the infiltrators. Such a designation would effectively end all loans to Pakistan from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, which some in the administration have argued would push already impoverished Pakistan into near collapse. dawn.com /2000/01/26/top2.htm

Daily Excelsior... World Harkat Ul-Mujahideen is the new name for Harkat Ul-Ansar, a radical Kashmiri nationalist group that was put on the State Department’s list of terrorist groups in 1997, later, it changed its name. The US administration has squarely blamed Harkat Ul-Mujahideen for the December 24 hijacking of the Indian Airlines plane, acknowledging that the Islamic militant group enjoys the support of Pakistan Government’s agencies, including...... The US administration has squarely blamed Harkat Ul-Mujahideen for the December 24 hijacking of the Indian Airlines plane, acknowledging that the Islamic militant group enjoys the support of Pakistan Government’s agencies, including the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), Islamabad’s military-intelligence wing. www.dailyexcelsior.com /00jan27/inter.htm

BBC NEWS South Asia Karachi bomb 'mastermind' quizzed Intelligence officials believe Hassan was a member of the Harkat ul-Mujahideen al-Almi militant group. Twelve Pakistanis were killed when a car bomb exploded outside the consulate in June 2002. Naveed-ul Hassan was detained on Wednesday near the Wagah crossing point with India, police said. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/4021983.stm

Harkat ul-Jihad-i-Islami It was first formed to run relief camps for the Afghan mujahideen and was led by Maulvi Irshad Ahmed. A power-struggle was reported within the group after the death of Maulana Irshad Ahmed, in 1985 during the Afghan Jehad. Earlier, in November 1993, Nasrullah Mansur Langrayal, HuM’s ‘chief Commander’ was arrested in Doda. www.kashmirherald.com /profiles/Harkat%20ul-Jihad-i-Islami.html

LeT, JeM put on US terror list WASHINGTON, AUGUST 13: The US has said the inclusion of 38 outfits, including militant groups operating in J&K — Harkat ul-Mujahideen, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Toiba — on its foreign terrorist organisations list is a step forward in its fight against terrorism. The 38 organisations on the list of terrorist organisations include HuM, JeM, LeT, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, LTTE, Al Qaeda, Abu Sayyaf Group, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Ansar Al-Islam, Hamas and Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), among others. www.indianexpress.com /full_story.php?content_id=53025

News 15 August, 1999: Focus of the Week Salim's blindness and religious commitment made a great impact on youthful militants and he was hired by the ISI to recruit boys from western Uttar Pradesh to the Harkat. On the basis of the interrogation reports of the arrested ISI men, Nalbari police nabbed a hardcore militant of the Islamic militant outfit Harkat Ul Jehad-Nurul Amin. Incidentally, Qari Salim, who hails from Mahalki village in Muzaffarabad, was one of the founders of the Laskar-e Babri, which is the Uttar Pradesh wing of the Harkat. nevigil.freeservers.com /15081999f.htm

Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> RBI directive to banks on terror outfit accounts Babbar Khalsa International, Khalistan Commando Force, Khalistan Zindabad Force, International Sikh Youth Federation, Lashkar-e-Toiba/Pasban-e-Ahle Hadis, Jaish-e- Muhammad/Tahrik-e-Furqan, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen/Harkar-ul-Ansar/Karkat-ul-Jehad-e- Islami, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen/Hizb-Ulmujahideen, Pir/Panjal Regiment, Al-Umar- Mujahideen. finance.indiainfo.com /news/2002/01/10/10rbi.html

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