By A.Mirsab,TwoCircles.net,
Mumbai: National Investigation Agency (NIA) sources have told Times of India that the agency have confirmed that two out of four missing youths from Kalyan who were earlier suspected of joining Islamic State, an armed Islamic group in Iraq, have actually not taken up arms with Islamic State but are working there in Oil refinery and hospital.
Central Agency has verified information that Fahad Shaikh is working in an oil refinery and Saheem Tanki in a hospital in the Syrian city of Rakka but intelligence could not gather information about Arif Majeed and Aman Tandel so far.
Missing Kalyan Youths reportedly in Iraq
Ever since the news of 4 Kalyan youths missing in Iraq gone viral, media and security agencies in the country are doing nonstop rounds about these youths and suspecting them to have taken up arms with Islamic State, a strong armed Islamic militia fighting in Iraq and Syria that has declared caliphate and called for allegiance from Muslims around the world. Most renowned scholars have, however, denounced them and criticized their actions as against declaration of the Caliphate.
As per the media reports these four Kalyan youths flew to Baghdad on May 23 as part of a group of 22 pilgrims intending to visit religious shrines in Iraq. Arif called his family from Baghdad on May 24, apologizing for having left without telling them. He claimed he had travelled in the hope of finding a job there. Then, he phoned again on May 25, this time to reassure his family he was well.
Although parents of all these youths have reportedly filed missing report in Thane police station regarding their sons but they are also helping investigation agencies by providing them every required information related with their children.
According to central security sources Fahad Shaikh, 24, a mechanical engineer, called his residence 15 days ago and told his mother that he was working in an oil refinery in Rakka whereas Saheem Tanki, 25, an HSC dropout, is working as a medical assistant at a Rakka hospital and helps in the treatment of those injured in conflict.
With this disclaimer it has been confirmed that two amongst these four youths are not actually fighting but doubt looms large on the remaining two about whom the intelligence agencies of India have not yet got breakthrough in locating them in Iraq or Syria.
According to the Indian Express Dr. Ejaz Majeed, father of Arif Majeed has handed over handwritten letter left by Arif as a message for the family to the investigation agency. The translation of his letter reads:
“I cried when I saw you all sinning, smoking cigarettes, taking interest, watching TV, illegal sexual intercourse, living luxurious lives, intermingling of sexes, not praying, not growing beards. These things will lead to you burning in the hell-fire” .
Regarding TV he wrote “a professional way to ensure nudity, lewdness, obscenity and disbelief prevail. It is a major sin. In it is music, which is an instrument of Satan.”
Calling on to his mother he purportedly wrote, “O’ Mother, the sun is setting in the backyard of our house, behind the mountain and I have told my friend that we will meet there for our greatest journey. It is a blessed journey for me because I don’t want to live in this sinful country. At the time of my death, the angel of death will ask me why I did not make hijra (migrate) to Allah’s land, which is spacious.”
Even though NIA absolved two out of four Kalyan youths from the allegation of really fighting alongside fighters of IS such writing of Arif Majeed has raised eyebrows of agencies in India and are inspecting people who were in touch with Arif and likeminded people in the society.
This is the reason that Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) in Maharashtra which is probing missing of four Kalyan youths detained two youths from the same locality on Wednesday. These two youths were detained for questioning on the ground that they too wanted to go to Iraq along with missing four youths but they postponed their plans.
Reportedly, ATS detained these youths even though NIA have already questioned and released them probably to pose them their set of questions or to gather information about more such youths who share similar ideology.
With the NIA’s latest claim, all speculations of media regarding Indian youths joining fighting in Iraq have to be set aside till the contrary claim in future and must accept the fact that two youths are in reality serving there simply meaning they are in the land of conflict for job or earning more money.