Appendix One -
Formation: August 1993
State Headquarters (HQs): Dergaon, Golaghat District, Assam
Operations group: Madbor Bahini
Armed wing: Jihad Group
Leader of Jihad Group: Sahabuddin (A Pakistani-trained militant from Bihar)
To protect the interest of the Muslims in Assam, especially the illegal migrant Muslims from Bangladesh who continue to be its main support base, and to carve out a “rightful place” for Muslims in Assam. The outfit is trying to have a separate homeland in Assam comprising the districts of Nagaon, Dhubri, Kamrup, Karimganj and Hailakandi.
Establish a university for Islamic studies
Ensure the reservation of 30 percent of jobs in Central and State Govt. services
Check the deletion of names of Muslims from the voters list
Provide full protection to the lives and properties of Muslims
Ensure the allotment of adequate funds for the maintenance of Madrassas and
Mosques
President: Nurul Hussain
Vice President: Nuzul Haque
General Secretary: Kamal-ud-Din Ahmed
Commander-in-Chief: Mathibur Rahman
Foreign Secretary: Rafiqul Alam
Publicity Secretary: Shamshul Haque
Abdul Khan, Dibrugarh
Abdul Latif, Jorhat
Safiqul Hussain, Nagaon
Siddiq Ali, Silchar
Tayabullah Khan, Hojai
Rashul Haque, Nagaon
Mansoor Ali, Nagaon
Mammadul Rahman, Nagaon
Nawab Ali, Hailakandi
Approximately 1,500
Around 150 cadres have been trained in camps located in Bangladesh and Pakistan
Dhuldhulia, PS Tamarhat, Dhubri
Dimoru, PS Moirajhar, Nagaon
Jamaribari, PS Lakhipur, Goalpara
Sonarghat, PS Golakganj, Dhubri
Athiabari, PS Bilasipara, Dhubri
Soparpur, PS Sonai, Cachar
Ballichara, PS Gutigara, Cachar
Jalashwar, PS Porapeta Village, Dhubri
Inter Services Intelligence of Pakistan
Jamaat-e-Islami (Pakistan)
Jamaat-e-Islamic (Bangladesh)
Islamic Chatra Shibir
Sipahi-e-Sahiba
Taliban
al-Qaeda
According to one Indian intelligence report a group of thirteen MULTA cadres was trained by the ISI in Bangalmara in North Lakhimpur District. A joint group of 160 MULTA and MULFA cadres underwent three months’ training at Chatak and Jayantipur in Bangladesh under the supervision of an ISI Major Nizamuddin Shah and Capt. Iqbal Ali during the end of 1999 and beginning of 2000. A meeting between a MULTA leader, Saifuddin, with ISI agent Lt. Col. Asraf Kazi was also noticed in Jadavpur in the Sylhet District of Bangladesh in Swagatam Hotel in 1999 and beginning 2000. Ishmaq Hussain Siraji, Saidul Islam, and Abdul Qadar of the MULTA obtained visas from the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka in April-May 2001 for visiting Pakistan and Afghanistan, clearly indicating their links with the ISI. A report has also indicated that al-Qaeda is training the MULTA in Bangladesh, and is channeling arms to the MFO from a temporary HQ that has been set up by the ISI in a mosque at Hathijan in Cox’s Bazaar.
Indian intelligence reports also disclose that in the beginning of May 2002, nine Islamic fundamentalist groups met at a camp near the Bangladesh town of Ukhia (south of Cox’s Bazaar) and formed the Bangladesh Islamic Manch (BIM). The new umbrella organization—in a bid to expand the Islamic solidarity in the region—has included non-Bangladeshi MFOs such as the Rohingya Solidarity Organization and the Arakan Rohingya Islamic Front from Myanmar. The MULTA is also a member of the BIM. The BIM has declared that its objective is to create a Brihot Bangladesh by merging areas of Assam and Myanmar’s Arakan province. The BIM has been convened at the initiative of the HUJI-B and is reportedly being chaperoned by the ISI and al-Qaeda. Other important fundamentalist groups from Bangladesh, such as the Islamic Shashantra (Islamic Polity), the Nizamat-e-Bangladesh, and Khelafat Majlis, are also members of the Islamic association.
9 mm pistols, AK series rifles, etc.
Note: The separate homeland issue is important, as the MULTA does not qualify it by stating whether it is to be a sovereign state or one within the Indian constitution. However, it is assumed that it would be a sovereign state, as the constitution of India does not allow an Islamic state within its ambit. The fact that the “separate homeland” is to be an Islamic state, however, is not explicitly stated, but the parlance that the MULTA is demanding a “rightful place” for the Muslims of Assam and its active liaison with the al-Qaeda and the Bangladesh based fundamentalist groups seems to indicate it.
Formation: 1998-99
Area of Operation: Goalpara, Dhubri, Barpeta Districts of Assam
To safeguard the interest of Muslims in Assam
To fight anti-Muslim forces for the creation of an Islamic state
Amir/Chairman:
Maulana Muslim Ali alias Muslimuddin alias Zuber, resident of Krishnoi
District, Goalpara
Nyab Amir/Deputy Chairman: Abu Bakar Siddiq alias Abdullah son of Mohammad Muslim Ali of No. 2 Larkuchi, PS Mukalmua
Office Secretary: Abdul Kassim alias Usman, resident of Khalidhara, PS Dudhnoi, Goalpara
Chief Organizer: Maulana Muhammad Fakruddin alias Akram Master, resident of Barpeta, now living in Pakistan
Zakir Hussain, resident of Chandmari, Goalpara
Abdul Kasim, resident of Khoridhara Krishani, PS Dudhnoi, Goalpara
Moinul Haque, resident of Rampur, Krishnoi, Goalpara
Alauddin Ahmed, resident of Puronibazar, Bilasipara, Dhubri
Kifayatullah, resident of Bidyanagar, Garigaon, Kamrup
Muhammad Tazrul Islam, resident of Mehdirjhar, PS Bilasipara, Dhubri
Muhammad Abdul Mukit Chowdhury, resident of Sowajpur Kakaribazar, Karimganj
Haji Billauddin Ahmed, resident of Manugram, PS and District Karimganj
Thirty-six activists of the HUM were arrested and surrendered to the Assam police during 1999-2001. The present strength is not known.
Movement towards Pakistan for arms and explosives training at Batrasi and Bakrial, near Manshera, NWFP, Pakistan.
Travel to and from Bangladesh via Koochbehar; stays at Nurani Madrassa, Jatrabari, and Dhaka.
Tasia: A forty-day weaponry course for new recruits.
Al-Hadid: A three-month advanced and specialized course in explosives, map reading, etc. Some of the cadres also went for arms training to Vaddi-e-Neliam in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Note: It is reported that Muslimuddin has left the HuM to join the Jaish-e-Mohammad, the group that was reportedly formed by Maulana Masood Azhar. Azhar is the militant who was freed by India in the wake of the Indian Airlines hijacking.
Formation: 1994
Area of Operation: Nagaon, Morigaon
State level Committee with HQs: Moirabari, Morigaon
Separate Muslim state
Demand 30 percent reservation for Muslims in government services and educational
institutions
Protection and preservation of Muslim personal law
President: Muhammad Rahul Amin
Vice President: Nakibur Rahman
General Secretary: Muhammad Istakin Ali
Asst. General Secretary: Muhammad Joinal Abedin
Organizational Secretary: Muhammad Awazuddin Ahmed
Finance Secretary: Muhammad Rafiq Ali
Publicity Secretary: Muhammad Safiqul Rahman
Around 100
Includes resourceful Muslim businessmen from Bombay and Hojai and some arms from the Gulf as well.
Twelve MULFA members received training in Bangladesh in 2000. Some of them were selected for a six-month guerrilla course under a Taliban instruction camp in Peshawar in April 2000.
A group of fifteen MULFA cadres had gone to Lamuchari Rohingya Training Camp under Naikhingchari PS, dist. Bandarban for arms training in January 2002 under an agreement arrived at between the Rohingya insurgents and the MULFA and the MULTA in 1999. MULFA cadres entered into Bangladesh under the guise of Tabliqis from Dhubri. Of course, ISI links are well accentuated.
Note: MULFA has been renamed the Muslim Liberation Army.
Fifteen Muslim youths were selected from different Madrassas in the Lilong, Mayang, Imphal, and Thoubal Districts of Manipur and were sent to Pakistan via Karimganj and Bangladesh to undergo arms training in 2001.
To safeguard the interests of the Muslims
in Assam
To fight anti-Muslim forces
Shah Jahan Ali
Muhammad Siddiq Hussaini
Ali Hussain, Mainul Haque
Muhammad Akbar Ali
Minazuddin
Around fifty
MVF cadres have been training in Barpeta and Korigram, Rangamati and Jayantipur in Bangladesh.
Formation: 1990s
One Mustafa Ahmed—a scrap iron contractor in the Oil & Natural Gas Commission,
Sibsagar—financed the plan to organize kidnapping for ransom, looting of banks,
etc. and also to raise funds to train cadres in Bangladesh and buy arms to
carve out a separate country by liberating Assam from India. Mustafa Ahmed
is also the Finance Secretary of the ILAA.
President: Arif Ahmed
General Secretary: Muhammad Allilullah Khan
Foreign Secretary: Moinul Haque
Chief Commander: Muhammad Mukul Ahmed alias Durlab Hazarika
Finance Secretary: Muhammad Mustafa Ahmed
Advisor/Founder: Farid Ahmed
Acting President: Abdul Rahman, Sibsagar
Acting Vice President: Gorukun Ahmed, Sepon
Acting Vice President: Faridul Rahman, Sibsagar
Acting Secretary: Mukul Ahmed, Moran
Acting Foreign Secretary: Moinul Haque, Dibrugarh
Acting Publicity Secretary: Nazir Ahmed, Moran
Acting Office Secretary: Ahulah Khan, Sibsagar
Around fifty
Moinul Haque established links with HUJI in the Arakans and in Bangladesh.
The training centers of the Arakans also have instructors from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Afghanistan.
Formation: November 2001
Support Base: Muslim dominated areas of Dhanpur, Dhupiwala, Kamarbaha and Ootijan
of Kamrup and Dhubri
Separate homeland for Muslims
Target leaders of Hindu organizations
President:
Mukti Abdul Hussain
Vice President 1: Sheikh Noozaman, resident of Fakirganj
Vice-President 2: Abdul Barik, resident of Dhubri
Gen. Secretary: Sukurumullah, resident of Dhubri
Finance Secretary: Abdul Rahman, resident of Alamganj
Publicity Secretary: Ibrahim Khan, resident of Golakganj, reporter for daily Khabar and Dainik Janambhumi
Publicity Secretary 2: Pervez Rahman, resident of Dhubri, reporter for Pratidin and Janambhumi of Alamganj, Dhubri
District Commander: Nurul Islam of Nagaon
District Commander: Idris Ali, Kamrup
Convener: Mrinal Kudus
Funds from Jamaat-e-Islami, Sri Lanka. Also receives funds from Alamganj Masjid, Dhubri
Formation: 2000
Engaged in the recruitment of Muslim youths in Lower Assam
Area of Operation: Organization confined to the Bodoland Autonomous Council
area, but ISFI is also trying to extend its influence into Cachar
Appeal to Muslim community to unite for Jihad against atrocities by the National Democratic Front of Bodoland and the Bodo Liberation Tigers
Secretary: Muhammad Mustaqil
ISFI gets support from al-Qaeda. It also has links with al-Omar, a militant outfit operating from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, the Lashkar-e-Toiba and the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front
Formation: beginning 1990s, Karimganj
Muslims of India should work jointly against Indian Hindus and the government of India to establish Islamic rule.
Abdul Hakim, resident of Dinthapur, Ambarkhana PS and District Karimganj
President: Fakruddin, resident of the village of South Ambarkhana, Karimganj, attached with Tabliq Jamaat since 1990
Secretary: Kashrud Zaman of the village of Inadpur, Ambarkhana, Karimganj
Mahibur Rahman, resident of South Ambarkhana
Karimganj
Abdul Karid, resident of Dhairokona, Karimganj
Farooq Ahmed, resident of South Ambarkhana, PS and District Karimganj
Abdul Haque, resident of Dinthapur Village of Ambarkhana
Twenty
(Note: Not to be confused with the MULTA)
Formation: 1990s
Area of Operation: Nagaon and Morigaon
Rightful place for Muslims in Assam
Unite the entire Muslim community and demand a separate Muslim homeland in
Assam
President: Moon Chowdhary
Vice President: Nazrul Haque
Organization Secretary: Hussain Mubarak
Treasurer: Asif Ali
150
Some of the MLTA have been sent to Bangladesh for training. The MLTA also collects and extorts money from even the Muslims in its areas of operation.
Formation: 1990s
Area of Operation: Nagaon, Goalpara, Darrang
To safeguard the interests of Muslims
General Secretary: Muhammad Allauddin Sharif
Commandant: Muhammad Yusaf Ali
Publicity Secretary: Muhammad Akbar Ali
Around fifty
Formation: 1990s
Area of Operation: Dhubri and Bongaigaon
Safeguard interest of Muslims in Kokrajhar
President: Khalliluddin Sheikh
Secretary: Muhammad Junbaj Ali
Joint Secretary 1: Muhammad Moonraj Ali
Joint Secretary 2: Abdul Badshah Mian
Around fifty
Formation: 1990s, in Lower Assam for extortion of money
To carry out anti-India propaganda, particularly in the western part of Lower Assam
Note: Maintains a cordial relationship with JEI
Commander-in-Chief: Siddiq Hussain, an ex-MULTA leader
Area of Operation: Mankachar and Hathisingmari
in Dhubri
SIMI is a militant youth front of the Jamaat-e-Islami, with its HQs in Hyderabad.
SIMI has bases in Ahmedabad, Aligarh, and Mumbai. It maintains close links
with the Islamic Chatra Shibir.
About five thousand
SIMI activists trained in Bangladesh are given a grant of Tk 2,000 each.
Formation: 1994, with the active support of
the NSCN (IM)
Area of Operation: Lilong in Thoubal, Jiribum in Tamenglong, Keirak and Ushoipokpi
and Turelahanbai in the Imphal
District of the Chandel area.
To form an Islamic country in the North East through an armed struggle
Chairman: Muhammad Asaf Khan
General Secretary: Muhammad Alif Khan
Army Chief: Muhammad Amzad Khan
Finance Secretary: Muhammad Hassin Khan
Eighty
PULF Assam has armed foreign links with some of the Muslim organizations
Cooperation with the NSCN (IM). PULF also maintains relations with the HuM in Assam and other MFOs of the North East. It possesses an unspecified number of arms including carbines, sten guns, and pistols.
Note: Intelligence reports have indicated that a move was made in March 1999 to merge the PULF with HuM, but it was apparently not a successful move.
Formation: 1985; has its office at Masjid
Road, Paonabazar, Imphal
Areas of Operation: Bishnupur district in Mayang and Khurgaon, Imphal in Thoubal
district, East of Imphal and West of Imphal
To unite Muslims living in Manipur to achieve political recognition
Muhammad Bhuran, resident of Lilong who migrated
to Saudi Arabia in 1992
Muhammad Khayum
Muhammad Laltaf
Muhammad Hussain
Muhammad Seraj
Chairman: Muhammad Sirajuddin
General Secretary: Muhammad Hussain
Assistant General Secretary: Tomba alias Khurishat Ali
Finance Secretary: Ziryurman
Organizational Secretary: Sattar
Islamic Affairs Secretary: Muhammad Altaf
Welfare Secretary: Rehana Sultan
Political Secretary: Karimuddin
Chief of Intelligence: Abdul Karim
In Charge, Investigation: Yusuf Ali Khan
Religious Affairs: Noor Begum
Liaison Officer: Muhammad Latifur Rehman
Youth Affairs: Allauddin
Approximately three hundred
The organization receives financial assistance from abroad and funds are being channeled via the Grindlays Bank in Guwahati. Muhammad Bhuran remitted about US $45,000 from Mecca (he has migrated) and Dubai to all the Madrassas in Manipur and Maulvi associations in Lilong during the second week of July 2001 to meet the expenses of Madrassa and students in Manipur.
Formation: 1990s
HQs in Khergaon with another base at Babupara in Imphal, Bandazar at Quakta,
Tarf-e-Lahambi, Khergaon, Dimapur, Silchar and Khowal. The ILA is the
combined armed group of Islamic Revolutionary Front, Islamic People’s
Front, and the United Islamic Liberation Front.
ILA is working for the unity of Muslims living in Manipur in order to achieve political recognition. The organization has also decided to work in cooperation with organizations such as the PLA, etc.
Chairman: A.P. Khan
Vice-Chairman: Muhammad Helan Khan
Commander-in-Chief: Latif Shah alias Nahatombu
Finance Secretary: Abdul Saifur
Publicity Secretary: Muhammad Saiful alias Alam Khan