Mohammad Jamil
mjamil1938@hotmail.com
Muslims throughout the world were shocked and grieved when unfortunate terror acts were conducted with malicious intent to harm the peace in Holy land last month. One of such acts included a blast outside US consulate, Jeddah, conducted by Abdullah Gulzar, who was declared by the Saudi Arabia’s ministry of interior the same day that he was a Pakistani national. An investigation conducted by Saudi Arabia following the suicide attacks revealed the fact that the bomber who hit near the US Consulate in Jeddah was an Indian national. The latest Saudi interior ministry report said that the Jeddah suicide bomber was from the Indian state Maharashtra and his name was Fayyaz Kaghazi. A suicide bomber who attacked near Masjid-e-Nabavi in Madina was a 26-year-old Saudi citizen with a history of drug abuse.
The UN human rights chief had described the bombing outside the Holy Prophet’s Mosque in Madina as an attack on Islam itself. Islamic State militants have had carried out similar bombings in the kingdom last year, targeting minority Shia and Saudi security forces. Islamic State often said that the Saudi rulers are apostates and declared its intention to topple them. Nevertheless, these terror attacks highlighted how young Saudi men are being drawn to Islamic State, which has launched attacks on Shias in other Gulf Arab states and stepped up violence in the holy fasting month of Ramadan, whereas any violence or even war in this month is forbidden in Islam. King Salman, in a speech marking Eidul Fitr, said a major challenge facing Saudi Arabia was preserving hope for youth who faced the risk of radicalisation.
With Investigations by Pakistani intelligence agencies, different dimensions and facts have come to light. Abdullah Gulzar Khan’s real name is Zulfiqar Fayyaz Ahmed Kaghzi, resident of Beed District, Mahrashtra, India. He was a member of Indian terrorist organization Indian Mujahideen (IM) but later due to his differences with IM leadership started working for RAW and provided information about IM militants. During 2006, once IM operative Syed Zabi-ud-Din Ansari aka Abu Jundal fled from India and entered Pakistan illegally. Zulfiqar Fayyaz Ahmed Kaghzi was tasked by RAW to keep an eye on Syed Zabi-ud-Din Ansari to facilitate his arrest. He entered Pakistan illegally, and he managed to obtain identity card through illegal means under fake identity of Abdullah Gulzar Khan son of Gulzar Khan.
Investigations revealed that Gulzar Khan had died few years ago and had only one son named Muhammad Ayad, who along with his mother and three sisters is living in Kotli, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan, and has no extremist lineage. During his stay in Pakistan, Zulfiqar Fayyaz Ahmed Kaghzi tried to penetrate banned organizations. However, due to his suspicious activities, none of the organizations accepted him. During 2008, Syed Zabi-ud-Din Ansari left Pakistan and went to Saudi Arabia. Zulfiqar Fayyaz Ahmed followed him and traveled to KSA. During his stay, he was continuously in contact with RAW and was passing information on Syed Zabi-ud-Din Ansari to RAW. Basing on this information, Indian Government contacted Saudi government that led to the arrest and repatriation of Syed Zabi-ud-Din Ansari to India.
On 21st June 2012, Syed Zabi-ud-Din Ansari was repatriated by KSA Government to India, and RAW tasked Zulfiqar Fayyaz Ahmed Kaghzi to move to Pakistan and find out any other IM operative present in Pakistan. On 29th June 2012, Zulfiqar Fayyaz Ahmed Kaghzi traveled to Pakistan. However, in order to alleviate any suspicion on the role of Zulfiqar Fayyaz Ahmed Kaghzi in Zabi-ud-Din Ansari case, Indian Government requested for his repatriation, but he had already left KSA. During second stay in Pakistan, Zulfiqar Fayyaz Ahmed Kaghzi visited various parts of Pakistan to carry out the assigned tasks, failing which he came to Islamabad and tried to contact various banned organizations again. However, his suspicious activities drew attention of various agencies and on 8 May 2014, he again fled to KSA.
It has also been learnt that since February 2016, Zulfiqar Fayyaz Ahmed Kaghzi was maintaining frequent contacts with IM operatives, who had defected IM and had joined DAISH in Syria. To this end, he was in communication with one Zeeshan in Syria, and he was most probably convinced and joined Daesh. From available information, the events at Jeddah are direct result of the manipulative use of Zulfiqar Fayyaz Ahmed Kaghzi by RAW to spoil brotherly relations between KSA and Pakistan. It is also learnt that RAW was in knowledge of Zulfiqar Fayyaz Ahmed Kaghzi’s contacts with Daesh in Syria but did not share the same with KSA. Had this information been shared, the timely arrest of Zulfiqar Fayyaz Ahmed Kaghzi would have averted the tragedy.
The nature of attacks and their apparently coordinated timing suggested that the Islamic State could be behind them. IS militants have brought ignominy to the Muslim fraternity, as they are ruthless and do not spare old and young, men and women and children. They profess to raise the banner of Islam but are striking at the very foundations of Islam and the holy places. The fact remains that the US and the West have been creating Frankenstein monsters of imperialism that later posed a serious threat to them as well as to the world at large. After Soviet forces entered Afghanistan, what they said, on the request of the Afghan government under the treaty signed between the then Soviet Union and Afghanistan, the US and the West supported the jihadi groups and warlords to resist the Soviet forces.
The US and West also continued with their policy of regime change, and overthrew Saddam Hussein, whose government was earlier strengthened by them to counter Iran’s rising power. They also stirred violence in Libya by supporting the rebels with funds and arms; yet they utterly failed to bring order or stability in Libya. US ambassador in Libya was killed by the rebels; yet no lessons were learnt. It was then Syria’s turn; and they played the sectarian card and provided arms to the Syrian rebels. Having realized that the Al Qaeda militants have joined the ranks of the rebels, and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had proclaimed himself as caliph on 29th June 2014, the US started distancing itself and refused to provide air support to the rebels.
