SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir government on Tuesday sacked three government employees for working for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (HM) terror outfits.
“The three sacked employees, who are in jail, include Malik Ishfaq Naseer, a police constable; Ajaz Ahmed, a teacher in the school education department; and Waseem Ahmad Khan, a Junior Assistant in Government Medical College, Srinagar,” said a spokesperson.
He said the government employees fired by the Lieutenant Governor were actively working for the terror outfits and helping terrorists to execute terror attacks on security forces and civilians.
“Having a mole and a dangerous terrorist associate in the ranks of police and other government departments is a huge threat, a continuation of which can be extremely expensive for the sovereignty and integrity of the nation,” he said.
Malik Ishfaq Naseer was recruited as a constable in J&K Police in 2007. His brother Malik Asif Naseer was a Pakistan-trained terrorist of LeT. He was killed by security forces during an encounter in 2018. Malik, however, continued his terror activities with impunity and, being a police constable, he was able to evade any suspicion, he said.
The official added that Malik’s LeT link was exposed in September 2021 when J&K Police was investigating a case related to the smuggling of arms and explosives in the Jammu region. “Malik, despite being the police constable who took oath to protect the integrity of India, was helping the terror outfit LeT to drop arms, explosives and narcotics. These consignments were guided by GPS technology and dropped at a pre-shared coordinate facilitated by Malik to Pakistani terrorists and his handlers.”
He further said that Malik was not only identifying the safe location and sharing the coordinates with LeT handlers in Pakistan, but he was also collecting and distributing arms and ammunition to terrorists in the Jammu and Kashmir region, enabling them to carry out terrorist attacks on security forces and civilians.
He said that instead of helping the police department in fighting the terror which he was mandated for, he chose to be a mole and a collaborator and betrayed his oath and uniform.
“Malik’s disloyalty towards the nation and department by becoming an accomplice and a ringleader of the LeT terror outfit has wreaked colossal damage to the department, society and the nation,” he said.
The official said that Ajaz Ahmed, teacher in the school education department, was working for HM. “He was recruited as a teacher in 2011. He became a trusted terror associate of HM in the Poonch region. He was actively helping the terror outfit in smuggling arms, ammunition and narcotics. The terror link with HM was exposed in November 2023 when Police arrested Ajaz and his friend during a routine check.”
He added that both were carrying arms, ammunition and posters of HM in Ajaz’s Toyota Fortuner. “Further investigation had revealed that the consignment was received on the direction of his handler Abid Ramzan Sheikh, an HM terrorist in PoJK. The consignment was to be delivered to terrorists operating in Kashmir for carrying out attacks on security forces and civilians.”
He said that investigation further revealed that Ajaz had been receiving huge consignments of arms and ammunition for the past many years and delivering them to terrorists in the Kashmir valley. (KNO)
