Following the seizure of Phulwarisharif, NIA probes PFI

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• Jul 24, 2022 | Kabir Chakraborty

Investigations into the brutal deaths in Udaipur and Amravati are also being carried out by the NIA, and several of the Islamists who were detained had ties to the Social Democratic Party of India, a PFI front organization (SDPI). After perpetrating horrible killings, all of the suspects seem to have become radicalized and show no regret during interrogation.

Digital Desk: Based on the anti-Indian
materials discovered during raids following the capture of Islamists Athar
Parvej and Mohammed Jalaluddin, one day before the proposed visit of Prime
Minister Narendra Modi on July 11, 2022, it is stated in the National
Investigating Agency's (NIA) FIR into the busting of a PFI module in the
Phulwarisharif area of Bihar that the crime has implications for national
security.

The
FIR cites 26 people as accused after the Home Ministry order handing over the
matter to the NIA on July 22. The majority of them have ties to PFI, an
Ahle-Hadith movement that describes itself as an umbrella Muslim organization
with the goal of bringing social justice to the general public. With meetings
scheduled for July 6 and 7, the alleged radicals received training in Phulwari
Sharif 15 days before PM Modi's visit with plans to assassinate him. The raid
was carried out based on intelligence, and 25 PFI brochures as well as a
document titled "2047 India: Towards the Dominion of Islamic India"
were found.

Investigations
into the brutal deaths in Udaipur and Amravati are also being carried out by
the NIA, and several of the Islamists who were detained had ties to the Social
Democratic Party of India, a PFI front organization (SDPI). After perpetrating
horrible killings, all of the suspects seem to have become radicalized and show
no regret during interrogation.

Alarm
bells have started to go off in the national security establishment about the
growth of PFI, which receives significant funding through its numerous front
organizations in Gulf Cooperation Council countries, particularly Saudi Arabia,
Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, and Bahrain. The Phulwarisharif seizure, Udaipur, and
Amravati killings.

The
radical Islamist organization was founded on November 22, 2006, through the
merger of three groups, namely the Karnataka Forum for Dignity, the National
Development Fund (Kerala), and Manitha Neethi Pasarai. The top leadership of
the PFI hails from Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and areas that historically
were under the Nizam regime in the previous century (Tamil Nadu). The PFI today
has a cadre of over 100,000 with a presence in 24 states, but its core
essence is made up of Islamists owing to its adherence to the banned SIMI,
which was excommunicated from the Jamait-e-Islami in the 1990s. The
Jamaat-e-Islami has had known links with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Alarm
bells have started to go off in the national security establishment about the
growth of PFI, which receives significant funding through its numerous front
organizations in Gulf Cooperation Council countries, particularly Saudi Arabia,
Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, and Bahrain. The Phulwarisharif seizure, Udaipur, and
Amravati killings.

The
radical Islamist organization was founded on November 22, 2006, through the
merger of three groups, namely the Karnataka Forum for Dignity, the National
Development Fund (Kerala), and Manitha Neethi Pasarai. The top leadership of
the PFI hails from Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and areas that historically
were under the Nizam regime in the previous century (Tamil Nadu).

In
December 2014, the Qatar Indian Social Forum was established to coordinate the
cadre and gather money. Another front, the Rehab India Foundation, has chosen a
number of Muslim-majority communities in India and is funneling funds from
Qatar to them. The organization is actively raising money in Kuwait, Abu Dhabi,
and Oman. Two representatives of the Qatari Embassy in New Delhi were expelled
the previous year for transferring money from Doha to the PFI.

The
PFI-SDPI is being closely monitored by national security because, according to
Nupur Sharma's comments, the organization is now radicalizing Muslim youth.