A host of NGOs, non-profit organisations (NPOs),human rights and civil society groups based in Jammu and Kashmir and Islamabad,are now on the radar of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for theiralleged role in financing terror in the state,

The Media reported, the NIA has charted out a list of these organisations and believes that Pakistan is allegedly parking money in them to fund terror activities in the Valley and across India. Some of them include the Islamabad-based Relief Organisation for Kashmiri Muslims (ROKM), the Millat Trust, based in Faisalabad, Pakistan, with its offshoots in Jammu and Kashmir and a Srinagar-based forum that claims to be a non-profit advocacy organisation.The organisations, the source said, have followed none of the procedures required to run them, have ties to separatists and have not conducted audits.

“There is a huge network of these NGOs and trusts that are being run in Jammu and Kasmir and all without following rules and procedure,”the source said. “There are no audits of these organisations, no details of where the funding is coming from, where they are spending and no record oftheir donors. In fact, they have not even been checked for FCRA (ForeignContribution Regulation Act) violations.”

A second source said these charities and NGOs may be called in for questioning.

“We have identified these NGOs and will soon be asking them to join the probe,” the source said. “Their role in terror-financing needs tobe looked into precisely because of so much money inflow, even through hawalachannels, from abroad and no records of where it is being spent.”

The NIA also has on its radar, a few human rights activist and volunteers including a Pune-based activist-cum-journalist and one fromKashmir.