Parvez was 21 at the time he was “rescued from Ankara” — and we’ve heard this one before — “after his parents claimed he had been misguided by some people to join the terror ranks. And, showing a humane face, a young officer from the J&K police tied all the loose ends and brought him back to India.”
They really thought he would be deradicalized after getting mixed up with a jihad group? If so, the parents were in denial about their son. They completely ignored the zeal and cause of the Islamic State, with its embrace of expansionary Islamic doctrine, and its level of brutality in implementing Islamic doctrine to the letter. Afshan Parvez was never “rescued” in the first place. Rather, he posed an extreme danger to anyone around him whom he didn’t regarded as part of the Muslim ummah. He was on a jihadist mission in life.
The presence of Islamic State-indoctrinated youth isn’t new in Kashmir. An article in India Today accused Pakistani jihad leaders of “using the ISIS imagery to instigate the Kashmiri youth to pick up arms and declare jihad against India.” Eurasia Review reported two possibilities about the Islamic State in Kashmir:
Islam lends itself to a violent interpretation and therefore the gravitating of Kashmir’s youth towards ISIS ideology was a foregone conclusion. The other, more insidious possibility, which was hinted at by my journalist acquaintance was that the Indian state was complicit in the propagation of the idea that ISIS was gaining a foothold in India.
A 32-page document emerged in Urdu which detailed:
…future battle plans of the Islamic State in pursuance of its ultimate goal of establishing an Islamic State Caliphate (ISC), a common goal of all global jihadist terror outfits. It urges the “ummah”, entire global Muslim community, to recognize Islamic State’s head Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as the sole ruler of the world’s Muslims under a religious empire “Caliphate”. It also reveals its focus on armed uprisings in the Arab world.
The Islamic State presence in Kashmir should not be surprising to anyone who has been observing Islamic State activity in Africa and now in Afghanistan (ISIS-K). ISIS group members and sympathizers can be found almost anywhere, often acting as lone wolves.
What is most disturbing is that Islamic State propaganda is all over the Internet in this era of open-door, unvetted immigration.
“Rescued from ISIS dragnet in 2017, Kashmiri youth slips again and lands in jail,” Indian Express, October 17, 2021:
After being rescued from the clutches of banned ISIS terror group from Turkey in 2017, Afshan Parvez has been found to be a sleeper cell of a terror module in Jammu and Kashmir that is promoting the armed crusade against the sovereignty of the country, officials here said on Sunday.
Parvez, a resident of the downtown area in Khanyar, was 21 when he was rescued from Ankara, after his parents claimed he had been misguided by some people to join the terror ranks. And, showing a humane face, a young officer from the J&K police tied all the loose ends and brought him back to India.
But after remaining dormant for sometimes after his return from Ankara, Parvez, now 25, was again seen active but in a different way as he was using mobile phones of unsuspecting people to carry forward his agenda at the behest of the banned terror group, according to officials.
Suspicions against Parvez grew when intelligence agencies, while probing a terror case of Ahmed Nagar in Kashmir last year, noticed a voice sample and writings on a web magazine ‘Voice of Hind’ that supported the ISIS propaganda.
An intense probe showed that a Virtual Private Network (VPN) was accessed from the same general area and the piece was uploaded, giving a handle to security agencies to at least call him for routine questioning to the police station, the officials said.
The National Investigating Agency, acting on the intelligence inputs provided by the state and central agencies, arrested Parvez earlier this month along with two others identified as Tawheed Latief and Suhail Ahmad.
The officials said some pseudo identities were spotted online and the tracking of one such identities led to Parvez, who had then allegedly become a hardened ISIS operative in Kashmir and was tasked to recruit and radicalise youths in the country and wage a war against the Indian State besides raising funds to support on-ground terror financing activities through a cyber campaign.
Parvez, according to the officials, was in touch with ISIS operatives in Afghanistan from where he was receiving instructions for furthering the agenda of the banned terror organisation in the country.
Parvez, who ostensibly left home in 2017 after an argument with his father who wanted him to join a college, was interested in religious studies, the officials said.
After leaving for Iran in March that year, from where he was scheduled to return to Delhi on April 9 after exploring avenues for religious studies in Europe, he sent a message to his family to tell them that he was facing some “problems”, the officials said.
After his family approached the local police for help, a probe was launched to locate him and by roping in central agencies, their Iranian counterparts were approached who found out that Parvez was travelling to Ankara.
The authorities in Ankara were contacted and he was picked up while from a bus in the Turkish capital and was sent to India on May 25, 2017 by a Turkish Airlines flight, the officials said.
The fresh ISIS moves were being viewed by the security agencies with concern as they believe that some Kashmiri youths are getting radicalised by ‘jihadi’ propaganda material shared by the ISIS on the Internet…..
gravenimage says
Jammu and Kashmir: Muslim youth ‘rescued’ from ISIS found advancing jihad terror sleeper cell
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Gee, what a surprise…
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“Rescued from ISIS dragnet in 2017, Kashmiri youth slips again and lands in jail”
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He “slipped”? He was waging violent Jihad, not drinking a beer or smoking a joint…
Infidel says
Why do Indian authorities listen to parents who failed to keep their kids clean, and bring them back from places like Ankara? This time, they should hunt Parvez down, arrest his parents and force them to prove that they weren’t in a plot w/ him to enable him to move his operations to Kashmir