Islamabad: Pakistan’s notorious intelligence agency ISI has received a major blow as their key assets — 2 Kashmiri terrorists — have been killed in their safe havens of this country and Afghanistan.
Top Commander of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen Bashir Ahmad Peer alias Imtiyaz Alam, who was based in Pakistan, was shot dead by unidentified persons in Rawalpindi, the base of Pakistan’s Army.
Peer hailed from Babapora in Kashmir’s Kupwara and ranked 3rd in the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen hierarchy.
The sensational killing has shocked the ISI, especially since the incident happened in Rawalpindi, a garrison town on the outskirts of Islamabad.
Another piece of bad news came tonight when Islamic State Pakistan Province (ISPP) said the former head of Islamic State Hind Province (ISHP) Ejaz Ahmad Ahangar, a terrorist originally hailing from Srinagar in Kashmir, had been killed in Afghanistan by the Taliban.
Ahangar, who had initially joined Harkat-ul-Mujahideen at the bidding of ISI, had got associated with Al Qaeda in 2006 and then with ISKP in 2015.
He was declared a terrorist by the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs in January this year.
ISPP said the Kashmiri jihadist, who had been captured in Afghanistan in October 2020 but fled from Bagram prison in August 2021 after the US forces left Afghanistan, was killed by Taliban forces in Kabul on February 14.
He was instrumental for a number of suicide attacks and even his son Umais Al-Kashmiri became a suicide bomber at the age of 16.
Ahangar’s daughter had married Huzaifa Al-Punjabi, a key founder of Islamic State Jammu & Kashmir who was killed in 2019.
