ISIS Daesh funders in Pakistan pay in Bitcoin currency to terrorists in Syria

ISIS Daesh funders in Pakistan pay in Bitcoin currency to terrorists in Syria.

The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Sindh Police arrested a student of Karachi’s NED University of Engineering and Technology for international terror financing.

DIG CTD Omar Shahid Hamid told a press conference at his office on Monday that they held Hafiz Mohammed Omer bin Khalid.

ISIS Daesh funders in Pakistan pay in Bitcoin currency to terrorists in Syria

He further identified him a final year student at the NED University.

The DIG CTD said they arrested Hafiz Mohammed Omer bin Khalid over international terror financing charges when he was trying to flee the city.

Moreover, he said the CTD had received information that some people were collecting funds from Pakistan for Daesh ISIL militants in Syria through various means.

Acting on a tip-off, police detained Omar and seized two mobile phones from his possession on December 17, 2020.

At the time, however, the suspect was released on bail as the CTD had no “concrete evidence” against him. Meanwhile, the seized cell phones were sent to the CTD’s technical division for forensic analysis, which reported its findings on January 11.

Forensic report unearths links

According to the forensic report, he had links with persons who collected funds from Pakistan and sent them to Daesh ISIS militants in Syria.

The report also established that he stayed in direct contact with the terrorists in Pakistan and Syria through their families.

During the press conference, DIG Hamid said that Khalid received money from unknown persons in Pakistan through a mobile payments service who had links with the families of the IS militants in Syria.

Subsequently, he transferred the funds to Zia in Hyderabad — also through the mobile transaction service — who then converted them into dollars and transferred the same through Bitcoin crypto-currency to the families of militants in Syria.

DIG CTD further said this activity had been going on for the last two years.

He said that the CTD registered a First Information Report against Khalid and other abettors on Jan 11.

Omar bin Khalid had gone underground

They started further investigations and in the meantime Omar bin Khalid had gone underground. Later he was trying to flee the city via train when the CTD team arrested him at the Cantt Station in Karachi.

Meanwhile another CTD officer Raja Umer Khattab identified Saad as Omar’s accomplice.

He further said that Saad had links with takfiri terrorist outfit Al Qaeda and his friend influenced him to join the militant group.

However, Saad has been missing for the last few years, said Khattab.

Umar Khattab said that (self-claimed) jihadi families in Syria had established Twitter accounts through which they demanded funds.

ISIS Daesh gang using different social media apps

Furthermore, he said that aforesaid ISIS Daesh gang was using different social media apps for coordination.

According to Khattab, most of the families that had travelled to Syria belong to Punjab, particularly Lahore.

He said the Daesh terror gang was using women generate funds for the notorious takfiri militants.

Meanwhile, DIG CTD said that the families of militants in Syria meant those Pakistani women who reportedly had gone there and married Daesh ISIS terrorists.

However, they stay in touch with the takfiri militants in Pakistan and seeking funds from here.

Daesh or ISIS (ISIL – IS) recruits ASWJ Rah-e-Haq Party (Sipah Sahaba – Lashkar-e-Jhangvi) terrorists in Pakistan.

They have vowed to establish caliphate and they had sworn allegiance to Abu Bakar Baghdadi as their caliph.

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