The Union government on Saturday designated Dr Asif Maqbool Dar as a terrorist over association with the terrorist o🎃rganisation Hizb-Ul-Mujahideen.
Dar has been designated as a terrorist under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). The UAPA was amended in 2019 to give the Union government powers to designate an individual as terrorist as well. Earlier, only organisations could be designated as terrorist organis𓆏ations.
Dar is currently based in Saudi Arabia and is part of Hizb's terrorist activꦬities in India, accordiꦇng to the Union Home Ministry's notification on Saturday.
The designation of Dar as a terrorist came a day after t🌺he Centre also designated The Resistance 💝Front (TRF) as a banned terrorist organisation. The TRF has claimed a number of acts of terror in Kashmir in recent years and is seen as a proxy of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
Who is Dr Asif Maqbool Dar?
Dr Asif Maqbool Dar is now a designated terrorist. He𝕴 is cu💧rrently based in Saudi Arabia.
Dar is associated with Hizb-Ul-Muja💃hideen, according to the Centre's notification. The Hizb has been designated a terrorist organisation for over two decades.
"The Hizb-ul-Mujahideen stands for the integration of J&K with Pakistan. Since its inception, the HM has also campaigned for the Islamisation of Kashmir," notes Sওouth Asia Terroris Portal (SATP).
Dar was born on December 2, 1981, and originally belonged to the village of Bandey Payeen in tehsil Wagoora in district Baramula, Jammu and Kashmir, as per the M🧜HA's notificaཧtion.
The notification saꦉid Dar is among the "leading radical voices on social media" that instigate youth to take up violence.
ꦅThe MHA said, "Dr. Asif Maqbool Dar is in involved in instigating or provoking the youth of Kashmir Valley for terrorist activities by using social media platforms...Dr. Asif Maqbool Dar is one of the leading radical voices on social media and involved in nefariously influencing Kashmiri youth to take up arms against Indian Government and Security Forces."
The notification furth⛄er said that Dar is currently under investigati🅺on by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
"Dr. Asif M✅aqbool Dar is accused in a case investigated by the National Investigating Agency relating to conspiracy hatched by the cadres of terrorist organisation to undertake violent terrorist act in Jammu and Kashmir and major cities in India including New Delhi on the direction of handlers based across the border," said the MHA notification.
