MHA declares J&K-born key IS recruiter as designated terrorist
According to intelligence agencies, Aijaz's name came on the radar after Afghan intelligence agencies launched an investigation into the attack on Kabul gurdwara on March 25, 2020.
The notification said Aijaz was born in Nawakadal, Srinagar, in 1974, and is presently based in Afghanistan. He is one of the chief recruiters of the ISJK, it stated.
One of the chief recruiters of the Islamic State Jammu and Kashmir (ISJK), Aijaz Ahmad Ahanger, alias Abu Usman Al-Kashmiri, now suspected to be based in Afghanistan and wanted in J&K for more than two decades, was on Wednesday declared a designated terrorist by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
According to intelligence agencies, Aijaz’s name came on the radar after Afghan intelligence agencies launched an investigation into the attack on Kabul gurdwara on March 25, 2020.
The notification issued by the MHA stated, “Aijaz was appointed head of Islamic State (IS) recruitment cell for India and had been instrumental in initiating an online India-centric ISIS propaganda magazine. He is a wanted terrorist in J&K for more than two decades and has started planning terror-related strategies in J&K by building coordination channels between various terrorist organisations.”
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