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 Srinagar-based operator.The 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 52-day 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 J&K 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 J&K-based 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 decade-long stay in Pakistan before he returned to J&K in 2010. Geelani is being projected by Tehreek-e-Hurriyat 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 Pakistan's 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 J&K, 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 trouble-makers based in south Kashmir who instigated mobs over the past 52 days, urging even children, some as young as 10-12 years, to attack the security forces. These instigators belong to the Tehreek-e-Hurriyat, Jamaat-e-Islami, Jamaat-e-Ahle-Hadith and Muslim League.Sources said the J&K police have been asked to arrest the lead trouble-makers, including functionaries of Jamaat-e-Islami (like lawyer Zahid Ali), Muslim League and outfits of incarcerated separatist leader Masarat Alam. "J&K police have been advised to invoke PSA against them to send out a tough message," said a home ministry officer.