Weekly happenings in South Asia region | 02 Jul, 2022 | Newsweek South Asia - #NWSA Episode

After years of denying his presence and even claiming he was dead, Pakistan now claims that 26/11 Mumbai attacks conspirator SajidMajeed Mir is in their custody and has been sentenced to 15 years in Jail over a terror-financing case. This decision of course comes as Pakistan is eyeing the listing from the Financial Action Task Force’s international terror-financing watch list.Recent weeks in Kashmir have witnessed a spike in targeted killings of Kashmiri Hindus and most of them were shot by Hybrid terrorists. They are the unlisted radicalized persons who carry out terror strikes and slip back into their routine life. Security forces are considering them as a new threat and challenge in the valley. Recently J-K Police apprehended one hybrid terrorist, and neutralised two other Lashkar terrorists in the Kulgam district of Kashmir.