Frontal organisations linked to the Jamaat-ud-Dawa and their Overground Workers are on a major fund-raising spree, particularly in Gulf countries and Saudi Arabia. This has been disclosed in a recent classified intelligence report circulated among the highest quarters in the government, including the Union home ministry, Cabinet Secretariat and office of the National Security Adviser.
The JuD, headed by Haifz Saeed, in turn said to be a front for the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba. The report, details of which have been accessed by this newspaper, goes on to state that outfits, like the Al Mansoreen, Pasban-e-Ahle-Hadith, Pasban-e-Kashmir, Idara Khidmat-e-Khalq, have been collecting funds through their volunteers in places like Dubai, Sharjah, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and other Gulf countries wherever they have a formidable network of volunteers.
The Indian security agencies are closely monitoring these developments with assistance from some foreign agencies as well. The report goes on to add, “Normally such financial activities are not only related to funding the terror machinery in India but it often results in a big terror strike in the country a few months later. A similar fund raising pattern was noticed before the 26/11 terror attack also.”
Sources said efforts were now being made to collect more inputs on whether important terror outfits like the LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammed or even Hizbul Mujahideen are planning a big operation against India in the months to come.
What is important, sources said, is that this intelligence input needs to viewed in the light of disclosures made by LeT commander Abu Jundal that the ISI’s Karachi plan was still in place and there could be an important terror strike in India in the months to come.
Incidentally, Jundal had also been tasked with fund raising in Saudi Arabia along with other important terror suspect Fasih Mehmood. “In the past, we have noticed that funds are normally generated to finance a big operation. And terrorist organisations operating out of Pakistan will target only Indian. So any abnormal activity by organisations or individuals linked to these groupings needs to be kept under surveillance,’’ a home ministry official remarked.