New Delhi: Besides Delhi-based Kashmir Journalists and a leading civil society activist who are critical of official policies against Jammu and Kashmir, more than 25 people from Kashmir Valley are selected as potential targets for intrusion supervision between 2017 and mid-2019 by government agencies Known.
This agency is also believed to be a client of the Israeli company, the NSO Group, according to leaked records reviewed by wire.
The number of main separatist leaders, politicians, human rights activists, journalists and journalists from Kashmir all the figures in Snoop Dragnet.
Of these, the wire is able to carry out forensic analysis on cellphones from two separatist leaders – Bilal Lone and the deceased S.A.R.
Geelani.
Geelani worked as a lecturer at Delhi University and died in 2018.
Lone telephone data was checked by Amnesty International Security Lab.
Even though setting this cellphone is not the same as what he uses when the phone has the potential to be targeted in accordance with the leaky database, forensic analysis reveals signs of pegasus targeting.
Before the Indian government revoked the status of special constitution of Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019 and imprisoned hundreds of opponents of politics, dissidents and activists, Lone had formed its own political clothing, the independent movement of the people, “to avoid confusion” with the conference of the Peoples, led by the sajad sajad alone.
For other potential targets in Kashmir it is not possible, because one or other reason, to do forensic analysis.
When the wire and his medium partner have noted, the appearance of numbers in the leaky database does not always mean that the telephone in question has been infected; But that means that the telephone number tends to be selected for potential supervision.
Others on the leaky database included at least two members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and former Chief of Minister J & K Mehbooba Mufti.
Their choice as a prospective surveillance target occurred when the Mufti was still the main minister of State Istama and in the coalition with BJP.
In fact, family members of the Mufti were chosen for potential potential for only a few months before the government collapsed when BJP withdrew from the coalition in June 2018, wire reported.
APNI Party President J & K Altaf Brothers Bukhari Tariq Bukhari also made appearances in the list and very interesting for agencies that add their names between 2017 and 2019.
In addition, at least four members of the most influential separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani family, including the son-in-law, Journalist Iftikhar Gilani and his son, scientist Syed Naseem Geelani who are interested in Indian clients from the NSO group between 2017 and 2019, the report said.
The wire said the leak also showed that the current head of the Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was a potential target of a surveillance between 2017 and 2019.
Farooq, as the Ulama Utama Jamia Mosque, a 14th century iconic religious center located in the city of Srinagar.
, also a very major religious figure in the valley.
Note reveals that FarooQ drivers may also be a target of supervision.
Waqar Bhatti, a leading human rights activist from the valley, also has the potential to be a target of supervision.
Pegasus Project Data also shows that at least five Kashmir journalists – including Muzamil Jalael from Indian Express, Aurangzeb Naqshbandi with Times Hindustan at the time, IFTIKHAR GEELANI previously with DNA and Sumirer of PTI – also targeted in the cyber supervision program.
The name of the fifth journalist is being held at their request.
Shabir Hussain, a political commentator based in Delhi from Kashmir, also on the list, wire said.
The telephone number of Delhi civil society criticism which is highly respected towards Kashmir’s policy of the government also has features in the database for 2018 and 2019.
This wire verifies numbers but holds their identity at their request.
Leading entrepreneurs based in the valley are also attractive to potential supervision, such as Delhi-based businessman who are known to enjoy strong political contacts with all the main J & K parties.
Their identity was cut upon their request, the telephone of craft entrepreneurs based in downtown Srinagar also had the potential to be targeted in the campaign.
He refused to comment.
Among other things chosen for potential supervision including the influential Shia scholars related to Mirwaiz-LED Hurriyat and the prominent separatist leader Zaffar Akbar Bhat.
Note also shows that two social activists and senior faculty members at the University of Agricultural Sciences in the region were also chosen for potential surveillance, the wire said.