A note generated by intelligence agencies on the basis of communication intercepts suggests that HuM commander Masood Shaheen alias Masood Talibani has started operating from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir’s (PoK) Palandari area. “Talibani is commanding the (armed) groups and trying to push them into this side of Kashmir,” reads the note. HuM men are widely known to have fought in Afghanistan from 1989 up to 2001. Senior HuM members Maulana Masood Azhar and Omar Sheikh were released on December 24, 1999 in exchange for hijacked Indian plane passengers. Thereafter, Azhar launched his own Kashmir-centric militant outfit JeM and the HuM became defunct.

Source: The Hindu November 28, 2017 18:45 UTC