Union Home Ministry has designated Hizb-Ul-Mujahideen operative Asif Maqbool Dar as a terrorist under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, UAPA, 1967. Dar who is a resident of Jammu and Kashmir is currently based in Saudi Arabia. In a notification, the Ministry said that Dar is involved in instigating the youth of Kashmir Valley using social media platforms for terrorist activities. It said, he is one of the leading radical voices on social media and involved in nefariously influencing Kashmiri youth to take up arms against Indian Government and Security Forces. He is also accused in a case investigated by the National Investigating Agency relating to conspiracy hatched by the cadres of terrorist organisation to undertake violent terrorist act in Jammu and Kashmir and major cities in India on the direction of handlers based across the border.<br />