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California almonds, a big source of terror funding in J&K

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Updated: April 19th, 2019, 17:34 IST
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New Delhi: California almonds, known worldwide for their high nutritional value, are being used in cross-LoC trade as a mode to earn profits which are funnelled to terrorists and separatists in Jammu and Kashmir according to security officials both in New Delhi and J&K.

India indefinitely suspended Thursday cross-LoC trade at two points along the Line of Control (LoC) effective Friday, following reports that it was being ‘misused’ by elements from across the border to smuggle weapons, narcotics and fake currency. The almonds produced in California have been regularly finding their way through LoC trade involving a large transport network.

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According to the modus operandi, Pakistani traders under-invoice products like California almonds. After receiving the consignment, traders on the Indian side sell California almonds at the prevailing market price and make extra and undue profit due to the under-invoicing, a security official said. The extra money generated is handed over by the traders to terrorists, separatists or anti-national elements in the Kashmir valley to fuel anti-India activities, the official added.

It has also come to the notice of security agencies that a significant number of trading concerns engaged in cross-LoC trade are being operated by persons closely associated with banned terrorist organisations, especially Hizbul Mujahideen. They have said that some Indian nationals who have crossed over to Pakistan and joined militant organisations have opened trading firms in the neighbouring country.

The cross-LoC trade is also being used as a regular channel for funneling drugs such as cocaine, brown sugar and heroine into the Kashmir valley, adversely impacting the youth and converting many into addicts, the another official informed.

In a recent example, 66.5 kg heroine was seized from a valley-based consignee and it was found that the drugs came through the cross-LoC trade.

The trade is being exploited for periodically smuggling arms and ammunition into the valley. Numerous seizures have been made of pistols, grenades, spares and ammunition.

Trade across Chakan-Da-Bagh and Salamabad was intended as a confidence-building measure for the population living in remote areas of Jammu and Kashmir and living across the LoC in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. However, third parties manipulated and misused it for trading goods being produced from outside Jammu and Kashmir.

Businessman Zahoo Ahmed Watali, who is currently in jail in terror funding cases, was the president of LoC traders association and he was allegedly found to be funneling money to terrorists, separatists and subversive elements in the valley.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has already attached Watali’s property worth crore of rupees and further investigations are still on. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has decoded the modus operandi of dubious hawala transactions for terror financing.

The inimical elements on Pakistan side identify a suitable sympathizer trader firm and hand over the money that is to be transferred to the anti-national elements and terrorists organisations on the Indian side.

“In the light of such large-scale misuse and loopholes being exploited for illegal and anti-national activities, Government of India has been compelled to suspend the LoC trade from Friday,” the official said.

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