{"id":41872,"date":"2018-01-04T13:37:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T08:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41872"},"modified":"2018-01-04T13:37:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T08:37:24","slug":"there-is-no-proof-of-taliban-or-daesh-presence-in-iok-says-indian-home-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41872","title":{"rendered":"There is no proof of Taliban or Daesh presence in IOK, says Indian Home Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi, Jan. 4 (TNS):<\/strong> Indian Ministry of Home Affairs told Rajya Sabha, upper house of Indian Parlaiment, that there was no proof of the presence of Islamic State (Daesh) or Taliban militants in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>However, it said that the front led by former Hizbul Mujahideen commander Zakir Musa has the support of fewer than 10 militants.<\/p>\n<p>This was India\u2019s Minister of State for Home Affairs Hansraj Ahir\u2019s\u00a0written response\u00a0to MP Amar Singh\u2019s query on militancy in the occupied Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Singh asked for information on whether the Islamic State group has \u201cstarted pursuing a nefarious game plan to turn Muslim majority areas in occupied J&amp;K into a caliphate\u201d and whether the government had assessed the number of such militants in the Valley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs per the report, nothing has been established on ground that ISIS is operating in any part of occupied Kashmir valley,\u201d Ahir said in his reply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever,\u00a0Ansar Gazwat ul-Hind\u00a0formed and led by Zakir Musa has posted adverse materials on social media. There are reports that at present, Zakir Musa has the support of less than 10 militants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo militant Tanzeem [organisation] like Taliban is presently operating in any part of occupied Kashmir Valley,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Jan. 4 (TNS): Indian Ministry of Home Affairs told Rajya Sabha, upper house of Indian Parlaiment, that there was no proof of the presence of Islamic State (Daesh) or Taliban militants in occupied Jammu and Kashmir. However, it said that the front led by former Hizbul Mujahideen commander Zakir Musa has the support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[737,733],"class_list":["post-41872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-new-delhi","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41874,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41872\/revisions\/41874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}