Mushtaq had floated Al-Umar militant outfit in 1990 and most of its militants were locals in the age group of 15 to 20.
Al-Umar Mujahideen still exists, but the outfit has been asked to lie low by Pakistan, claim police.
The outfit was floated by Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar, one of the three terrorists released by the Indian government to save passengers on a hijacked Indian Airlines flight. The other two were Masood Azhar and Ahmad Syed Omar Sheikh. Masood later went to head the dreaded Jaish-e-Mohommad, which has been held responsible for the attack on parliament.
However, since Mushtaq’s release, his family has been on the radar of security forces. The family had to maintain a low profile. For the last 10 years his relatives were hardly seen in public domain, purportedly due to the pressure and the constant surveillance.
They disconnected their phones. Zargar’s brother Fayaz Ahmad was arrested after Mushtaq was released. He was two years in the jail. Zahoor, the other brother, was also picked up from the street and interrogated for three months before being released.
Two years after Mushtaq became a militant in 1990, his brother-in-law Siraj-ud-din was picked by the security forces. He has been allegedly missing ever since.
“There is no end to our harassment. Every black law has been applied on us. Now please do not trouble us and leave us alone. We have suffered a lot. We don’t want to talk,” said Mushtaq’s relative, even requesting not to be named.
Mushtaq had floated Al-Umar militant outfit in 1990 and most of its militants were locals in the age group of 15 to 20. The outfit was responsible for a number of attacks on the security forces.
The outfit was also responsible for kidnapping of several high-profile people to getting their comrades out of jail. After Mushtaq was arrested in the early nineties, the security forces went whole hog against his outfit and killed and arrested most of its cadres making Al-Umar a defunct organisation.
“The outfit still exists. It has been asked to lie low by Pakistan,” Hemant Kumar Lohia, deputy inspector general of J&K police, central Kashmir range. Dozens of cases are pending against Mushtaq in different police stations.
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