<span style="color: #222222;">The government has started seizing properties belonging to terror financiers in a big way as part of its efforts to curb terror funding. Thirteen persons and their properties have so far been identified by the National Investigation Agency, NIA, in this connection.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">AIR correspondent quoting highly placed Home ministry officials' reports, the Enforcement Directorate, ED, has already zeroed in on proceeds of such crimes and has begun action to freeze and seize such assets. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Ongoing investigation in the first phase have determined and quantified assets valued at over seven crore rupees as proceeds of terror funding crimes.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In the first strike, action has been initiated to attach a bungalow of Zahoor Ahmad Shah Watali in Gurugram. Mr Watali, who is presently lodged in Tihar Jail, is a major conduit for funnelling terror finances in the country. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Incriminating documents seized by ED clearly indicate that he has been receiving money from self-styled Chairman of Jammat-u-Dawaa, Hafiz Saeed, the chief of proscribed terrorist organization Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Syed Salahuddin, the ISI and the Pakistan High Commission at New Delhi directly. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Apart from Watali, another 10 top leaders have also been brought into the dragnet of terror funding, and multi-agency surgical strikes on terror funding have been launched against them in a concerted manner for the first time.</span><br />