Sandeep Bhat
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 18: In a dramatic pre-dawn crackdown, the Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) on Tuesday uncovered what investigators describe as Kashmir’s first organised female terror-recruitment network, allegedly activated on the instructions of the mysterious “Madam Surgeon” Dr. Shaheen Shahid, a senior doctor already under arrest from Uttar Pradesh in connection with the “white-collar” terror module.
According to top intelligence officials, a doctor and his wife, acting directly under Dr. Shaheen Shahid’s command, have been quietly recruiting women from multiple districts of Kashmir into terror outfits triggering alarm bells across security agencies.
At dawn, CIK teams fanned out across Srinagar, Anantnag, and Kulgam, hitting multiple locations including the Super Speciality Hospital, Shireen Bagh, after obtaining court-backed search warrants.
Sources confirmed that the searches are part of a newly registered terror-recruitment case involving individuals accused of promoting terrorism, glorifying violent acts, radicalising women and facilitating their induction into terror organisations.
In what officials call a major breakthrough, investigators have uncovered a strategic link between Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) and the banned women’s outfit Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DeM), once led by jailed separatist Asiya Andrabi.
CIK suspects that a doctor and his wife were operating as key recruiters, allegedly mobilising Kashmiri women on the directions of JeM and attempting to revive the DeM network while Andrabi remains behind bars.
CIK teams are also investigating a shadowy online radicalisation module believed to be operating through dark-web channels, encrypted platforms, and OGW networks.
During today’s raids, investigators seized radical literature, jihadi propaganda material, and content specifically designed to target women and young girls.
At the heart of the unfolding scandal is 43-year-old Dr. Shaheen Shahid, known within the terror ecosystem as “Madam Surgeon.”
CIK sources said with wife of the doctor acts as the underground coordinator for a covert JeM-linked network of medical professionals — and had allegedly tasked the doctor and his wife with recruiting young Kashmiri women into multiple terror outfits.
The revelations have stunned security circles, exposing what one senior official described as “a chilling new face of terrorism — educated professionals using their credibility, networks, and access to radicalise women.” |
