7 Facts About Indian Mujahideen

1. Hizb-ul-Indian Mujahideen is a Kashmiri separatist militant organization founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989.

2. Harakat al-Shabaab Indian Mujahideen is said to have non-Somali foreigners in its ranks, particularly among its leadership.

3. An outfit calling itself the Indian Mujahideen came to light in 2008 with multiple large scale terror attacks.

4. Indian Mujahideen were deemed responsible for the decapitation of six young Russian conscripts caught in Dagestan during a rebel incursion.

5. Indian Mujahideen forces caused serious casualties to the Soviet forces, and made the war very costly for the Soviet Union.

6. Indian Mujahideen was declared a terrorist organisation on 4 June 2010 and banned by the Government of India.

7. Indian Mujahideen is an Islamic terrorist group led by Abdul Subhan Qureshi.