Regrouped SIMI as SIM, outfit’s leader tells NIA

The reworked SIM was a result of a crackdown and was intended to connect with leaders of globally known terror outfits. Qureshi, 47, who was arrested in January, is sometimes referred to as India’s master jihadi organiser. He was entrusted with the task to contact Taliban leader Mullah Omar as ‘SIM’ believed in the outfit’s advocacy of an Islamic caliphate.