new delhi intelligence agencies are tracking terror financing in jammu kashmir through local tour businesses offering haj services with the possible involvement of nayeem geelani son of hurriyat hardliner ali shah geelani under the scanner for links with a prominent srinagarbased operatorthe new methods of terror financing have agencies scanning the possible role of top separatists their kin and some local tour operators as conduits for channelising funds into the latest cycle of violence in the kashmir valley three terror financing modes have caught attention of agencies probing financing involved in the 52day protests that wracked south kashmir after the death of hizbul leader burhan wani agencies suspect that an equivalent amount of the payment deposited with the tour operators by jk pilgrims is paid to the end beneficiary through hawala route by foreign terror financiers who in all likelihood are based in pakistan the money that remains with the jkbased tour operators is then diverted to fund local protests a top intelligence officer said the possible involvement of nayeem geelani in such terror financing through hawala route is under the scanner the junior geelani has been summoned by nia for questioning in connection with a preliminary enquiry lodged into possible terror funding of the recent protests according to intelligence sources nia is likely to probe nayeem on his nearly decadelong stay in pakistan before he returned to jk in 2010 geelani is being projected by tehreekehurriyat chief as his heir apparent and handles all financial transactions of the outfit the role of the separatists is even more direct in another mode of terror funding identified by the agencies this involves use of kashmiri students who go to pakistan for higher studies intelligence agencies suspect that the separatists in coordination with their pakistani contacts arrange seats for the kashmiri students in pakistans educational institutions for a monetary consideration the money allegedly paid by these students to separatists or their agents for securing admission to pakistani medical and engineering colleges is then used for financing terror activities in jk an intelligence officer told toi the third route of terror financing uses young kashmiris who travel to the gulf particularly medina for religious studies they may act as conduits or carriers of terror funds during visits back home said an intelligence officer the agencies have also identified a few hundred troublemakers based in south kashmir who instigated mobs over the past 52 days urging even children some as young as 1012 years to attack the security forces these instigators belong to the tehreekehurriyat jamaateislami jamaateahlehadith and muslim leaguesources said the jk police have been asked to arrest the lead troublemakers including functionaries of jamaateislami like lawyer zahid ali muslim league and outfits of incarcerated separatist leader masarat alam jk police have been advised to invoke psa against them to send out a tough message said a home ministry officer