NIA Raids Srinagar Home of OGW Hashim Farooq in Latest Anti-Terror Crackdown
High-level orders drive the NIA’s push to sever grassroots funding, logistical support networks, sympathizer channels in Jammu and Kashmir.
Overview
- On August 6, an NIA team with CRPF and Srinagar Police searched Hashim Farooq’s house in Rustum Colony as part of ongoing terror-related investigations
- Hashim Farooq is the son of detained OGW Farooq Ahmad Mir and is held under the Public Safety Act at Kot Bhalwal Jail
- The raid follows Operation Mahadev on July 28, when joint forces eliminated the three Lashkar-e-Taiba militants responsible for the April 22 Pahalgam attack
- Lt Governor Manoj Sinha has instructed security agencies to dismantle the entire terror ecosystem rather than focus solely on eliminating armed fighters
- Authorities have identified drug smuggling and hawala networks as key terror financing channels and are intensifying efforts to disrupt those funding streams