ISIS operatives case: Money flowing from Gujarat to Pakistan’s Habib Bank to fund terrorism?

The Gujarat ATS has gotten clues from the arrested ISIS operatives that money is being transferred to a multinational bank based in Pakistan’s Karachi.

On October 25, the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) arrested two suspected ISIS terrorists from Surat. It is believed that they were planning a terror attack in the state during the upcoming Gujarat Assembly Elections.

Now, the Gujarat ATS reportedly got clues about money being transferred from the state to the largest commercial bank of Pakistan — Habib Bank or HBL — and the ATS suspects this to be cases of terror funding.

The ATS got information about this during the investigation of the case pertaining to the arrest of two ISIS operatives. One of the arrested used to work as a lab technician in the hospital that had political secretary of Congress, Ahmed Patel, as a trustee.

An ATS official said that more than 15 people of South and Central Gujarat including Godhara, Bharuch, Vadodara, Surat and Valsad were under the scanner for the suspicious transactions with the Karachi-based multinational bank. He did not reveal whether the money was transferred to any branch in Pakistan or Gulf countries or some other place.

He said that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) which was likely to take up the matter would also look in to this terror funding aspect separately. Ubaid Mirza, an advocate by profession in Surat and Kasim Stimberwala, a native of Ankaleshwar who worked as a medical lab technician, were arrested by the Anti-Terrorist Squad of Gujarat police on October 25.

Source: India Today