By Admin 
Terrorist commander Qaiser Ahmed Mir alias Mohammad Iqbal, who was a founding member of the terrorist organization Hizbul Mujahideen during its establishment in April 1990, died yesterday, Monday (February 2, 2026) in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad. According to the information, this notorious and brutal commander of Hizbul Mujahideen was suffering from cancer and had fled from India for the last two decades and was living in Tarlai Kalan area of Pakistan’s capital Islamabad.
According to information received from sources, Qaiser Ahmed Mir alias Mohammad Iqbal was active in Kashmir Valley from 1990 to 2008 and was the top commander of Hizbul Mujahideen in Pulwama, Shopian and Rajpura. Besides, Qaiser Ahmed Mir also played an important role in the massacre of Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir.
Khalid bin Waleed used to give training to terrorists in camp in PoK
A few years ago, Qaiser Ahmed Mir alias Mohammad Iqbal had fled to Pakistan and there he was given the command to train terrorists in Hizbul Mujahideen located in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Khalid bin Waleed camp located in Guldheri locality of Habibullah area, the stronghold of Lashkar-e-Taiba. Where hundreds of terrorists including Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists Burhan Wani, Riyaz Naiku, Zakir Musa were trained under the supervision of this Kaiser Ahmed Mir alias Mohammad Iqbal.
The camp was closed after India’s Operation Bandar
According to the information, after Qaiser Ahmed Mir alias Mohammad Iqbal fled to Pakistan, he was given a house in Tarlai Kalan area of Islamabad and was given a stipend of 1.25 lakh Pakistani rupees every month and Qaiser Ahmed Mir alias Mohammad Iqbal used to go to Garhi Habibullah only at the time of training. Apart from training, Qaiser Ahmed Mir alias Mohammad Iqbal used to operate more than 80 OGWs in Jammu and Kashmir, who used to make arrangements for the accommodation and food of the terrorists after they crossed the border and kept them informed about the security agencies.
After the terrorist attack in Pulwama in 2019 and Operation Bandar in Balakot, India, the then Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan implemented the National Action Plan under pressure from India and was forced to close the Khalid Bin Waleed Camp.
New terrorists have not been recruited from Jammu and Kashmir since last one year.
After the closure of the camp, at one time, Hizbul Mujahideen was preparing more than 100 terrorists annually, out of which Hizbul Mujahideen used to give money to Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, but due to the closure of the camp, the pace of training of terrorists from Hizbul gradually slowed down and Hizbul commander in Rawalpindi, Imtiaz Alam. After the killing by unidentified gunmen, Hizbul Mujahideen’s financial network within Pakistan became weak.
Apart from this, after the removal of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir, it became difficult for Hizbul Mujahideen to recruit terrorists, because for Hizbul Mujahideen, everyone in the government system, be it government employees, teachers or big leaders of Hurriyat, was put in jail by the security agencies. After which, at present, not a single new terrorist from Jammu and Kashmir has been recruited in Hizbul Mujahideen in the last one year.
Difficulties in recruiting new terrorists in Hizbul
After the death of one of the founding terrorists of Hizbul, Qaiser Ahmed Mir alias Mohammad Iqbal, who was a resident of Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, Hizbul’s OGW network will also be further weakened. Hizbul Mujahideen is currently trying to re-establish itself in Lower Dir and Mansehra of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but the biggest problem for it is being created by Lashkar-e-Taiba and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Because the job of Hizbul Mujahideen was to recruit and train terrorists from Jammu and Kashmir and the job of Lashkar-e-Taiba was to recruit and train terrorists from different areas of Pakistan, but in the present times Hizbul is not able to recruit terrorists from India and recruitment in Pakistan is not allowing it to do Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Clashes are also taking place every day between Hizbul Mujahideen and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, because TTP feels that since Hizbul is run by ISI, then due to the construction of a training camp in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Hizbul commanders will spy on TTP through ISI and will also take part in the army operation against TTP.
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