Defence, National Security and Terrorism NIA Raids in Kashmir The National Investigation Agency (NIA) raided the premises of hybrid terrorists and overground workers linked with the newly formed offshoots and affiliates of banned terror outfits in Anantnag, Shopian and Pulwama districts of south Kashmir. The newly floated terror outfits under investigation include The Resistance Front, United Liberation Front Jammu & Kashmir, Mujahideen Gazwat-ul-Hind, Jammu & Kashmir Freedom Fighters, Kashmir Tigers, PAAF and others. About NIA Director-General - Dinkar Gupta HQ – New Delhi Founded - 31 December 2008 Operation Blue Star It was an Indian Armed Forces operation in 1984 to remove Damdami Taksal Jathedar Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his followers from the buildings of the Golden Temple, the holiest site of Sikhism, in Amritsar, Punjab.