Hizbul Mujahideen

Hizb-ul-Mujahideen
حزب المجاھدین
HM
Active since 1989
Leaders

Muhammad Ahsan Dar

Sheikh Abdul Waheed

Ashraf Dar

Burhan Muzaffar Wani

Sayeed Salahudeen

Ali Muhammad Dar
Headquarters MuzaffarAbad, AJ&K
Opponents  India

Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (Arabic: حزب المجاھدین‎, Ḥizb al-Mujāhidīn, meaning "Party of Holy Warriors" or "Party of Mujahideen"), founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September,1989, is a Kashmiri separatist group. It was designated a terrorist organisation by India,[1] the European Union[2] and the United States,[3] active in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir since 1989. The current supreme commander of the group is a Sayeed Salahudeen.

Holding up pro-Pakistan Ideology, group is considered to be the largest indigenous militant wing in Indian Occupied Kashmir. In 1990 Master Ahsan Dar had more than 10,000 armed men under his command.

Top Leaders

Divisions in the 1990s, Ceasefire of 2000

In 1991, after the merger with the Tahreek-e-Jihad-e-Islami (TJI), the strength of the Hizbul had reached 10,000.[4] In the following years, rivalries developed within the Hizb, culminating in a killing of 21 people in a PoK village near the border in 1998.[5]

By the late 1990s, several voices within the Hizb including its operational commander Abdul Majeed Dar sought a return to more peaceful approaches. In July 2000, Dar, along with four other Hizb commanders, made a surprise unilateral ceasefire declaration from the outskirts of Srinagar.[6] The ceasefire was immediately ratified by the PoK based commander Sayeed Salahudeen,[7] but was criticized strongly in the Pakistan media.[5] It was withdrawn by Salahudeen by September. In 2002, Dar was denounced as an agent of the Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).[8] He was expelled from the Hizb along with four divisional commanders.

The ceasefire move, its immediate endorsement and subsequent withdrawal highlighted deep divisions between the more hawkish operatives in PoK and those based in India.[9]

Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003.[6][10] The organization today, under Salahudeen, is viewed as much more hardcore.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Archived January 29, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ "US adds 4 Indian outfits to terror list". Rediff. 30 April 2004. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  4. ↑ "Mohammad Ahsan Dar's Arrest: End of the Road for Hizbul? by Amin Masoodi". Institute of Peace & Conflict Studies -. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  5. 1 2 Archived January 9, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
  6. 1 2 "Abdul Majid Dar shot dead". Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  7. ↑ "Hizb expels three top commanders". Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  8. ↑ "Dar & Co are RAW agents: Hizbul hawks". Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  9. ↑ "The Hizbul meltdown". Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  10. ↑ Praveen Swami; Indian Pakistan and the Secret Jihad: The Covert War in Kashmir, 1947-2004 Taylor & Francis, 2006, ISBN 0415404592

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