It is now official. Separatist leadership in Kashmir valley have almost stopped participating in the ongoing struggle for resolving the issue of Kashmir.
A news report of a national news agency Sunday claimed, India’s premier investigating agency, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has alleged several hardline separatists received funds from abroad and utilised them for personal gains — from amassing properties to paying for foreign education of their kin.
These revelations were based on recent rounds of interrogation of Hurriyat leaders in their custody.
In the recent weeks, the agency had interrogated several top leaders of Hurriyat Conference and other organisations and claimed that they had confessed to receiving funds from Pakistan to fuel separatist sentiments among the people of Kashmir Valley.
“During interrogation, Asiya Andrabi admitted that she had been collecting funds and donations from foreign sources and Duktaran-e-Milat had been organising protests by Muslim women in the valley,” it claimed.
Separatists losing sheen
For tokenism, a section of leftover separatists led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, have been keeping the flag high while majority among them are in no mood to cement their place in the existing political landscape of Kashmir valley.
Ever since NDA government at the centre, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has cracked its whip and tracking ‘hawala money transactions, conduits, linkages between terror sympathisers and separatists they are all feeling the heat and lying low.
The hartal calendars have almost vanished. It is only for the sake of observing shut down in some pockets of downtown Srinagar, a formal call for a bandh is given by a joint resistance leadership.
NIA probe has broken the backbone of separatists
The ongoing probe in the terror funding cases has already broken the backbone of separatists in Kashmir valley.
At present, Shabir Shah and Yasin Malik, Masarat Alam are languishing behind bars. The probe is currently going on to investigate their role in pumping hawala money in Kashmir valley to boost unrest in the region.
These leaders are facing serious allegations of dragging children of poor families to sustain their Kashmir centric agenda while their own children have been cooling their heels in foreign destinations and studying professional courses/ working in different organisations.
On the other hand, one of the senior most hardliner Syed Ali Shah is not keeping well and spending time shuttling between hospital wards and his home. He continues to enjoy clout in the separatist camp but has little or no say in chalking out the future course of action.
Other constituents of ‘discredited’ Hurriyat Conference in Kashmir valley is currently enjoying their lives and spending lavishly on their mansions, education of children studying in foreign locations and amassing more properties.
Chief of Duktaran-e-Milat under NIA scanner ?
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has said the firebrand leader of Duktaran-e-Milat, Asiya Andrabi, was grilled by it about the educational expenses of her son in Malaysia incurred by Zahoor Watali, who was arrested in a terror funding case.
“During interrogation, Asiya Andrabi admitted that she had been collecting funds and donations from foreign sources and Duktaran-e-Milat had been organising protests by Muslim women in the valley,” it claimed.
The NIA has already approached the relevant authorities for providing evidence relating to certain bank accounts used by Asiya Andrabi’s son Mohammad bin Qasim while he was in the university, it said.
Another hardline separatist leader, Shabir Shah, had to face some tough time when he was confronted about his businesses, including a hotel in Pahalgam which is allegedly funded through foreign funds received by him from Pakistan, the statement said.
Masarat Alam, “the poster boy of stone pelters and violent agitations in Kashmir valley” has told investigators that Pakistan based agents route the funds through hawala operators which were transferred to the separatist leaders including Syed Shah Geelani.
“During the custodial interrogation, Shabir Shah was confronted with evidence relating to the transfer of money by Pakistan-based agents and representatives of APHC (All Parties Hurriyat Conference) factions to parties affiliated to Hurriyat in J&K. He was also confronted about his investments in various hotels and businesses in Pahalgam, properties in Jammu, Srinagar and Anantnag,” the NIA said.
The NIA had registered a case in May 2017 against terrorists belonging to Jammat-Ud-Dawah, Duktaran-e-Millat, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen and other separatist leaders in the state for raising, receiving and collecting funds to fuel separatist and terrorist activities and entering into a larger conspiracy for causing disruption in Kashmir Valley and for waging war against India.
The agency has so far charge-sheeted 13 accused, including a leader of Jammat-ud-Dawah Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, head of proscribed organisation Hizb-ul-Mujahideen Syed Salahuddin, seven separatist leaders, two hawala conduits and some stone-pelters.
Watali is one of the main hawala conduits who used to generate and receive funds from Pakistan, ISI, UAE and had floated various shell companies to disguise foreign remittances for further transfer to separatist leaders and stone pelters in the valley, it said.
Funds used to fuel unrest in Kashmir valley
The National Investigation Agency has said these funds were used to fuel unrest in the Kashmir valley and organise violent agitations and anti-India activities which resulted in large scale violence leading to numerous injuries and deaths of civilians and security forces.
Evidence relating to funding of these separatist elements through Pakistan and UAE-based businessman, ISI, High Commission of Pakistan in Delhi has been collected and presented to the NIA Special Court in the charge sheets, it said.
Watali’s bail was rejected by the Supreme Court, on a plea by the NIA, as the apex court observed that the Delhi High Court has not appreciated the material which found favour with the designated court to record its opinion that there are reasonable grounds for believing that the accusations are prima facie true.
NIA probe has also revealed that the Hurriyat Conference Geelani Group collected funds from the business community as well as certain other sources and ensured that economic shutdown and violent protests continue to disrupt the daily life of common citizens in the valley.
“Evidence regarding many of Shah’s benami properties is being collected. He was confronted with some of his personal staff and associates who have provided vital information regarding the sources fundraising and investment details,” it alleged.
Masarat Alam, “the poster boy of stone pelters and violent agitations in Kashmir valley” has told investigators that Pakistan based agents route the funds through hawala operators which were transferred to the separatist leaders including Syed Shah Geelani, Chairman, Hurriyat Conference, the NIA said.
Alam has also revealed that there are rifts in the Hurriyat Conference regarding the collection and use of the funds.
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to be noted that ALL HAWALA operators of these terrorists, are PAKIPANJABIS, the execrable, vile, evil stinking gutter prd of Brit/Phoren DNA in live orgy sessions, who slithered into India in 1947, came as beggars but same low IQ goons, eternal slaves of white skins, pretender klannist nazis (a bastrd is always a Bigger Nazi than worst of conquistador, just to get a chance to lick the ass of dog of a white skin lout) today live in HUGE KOTHAS, while we native Indians are still poor. ALL THEIR ILL GOTTEN WEALTH BELONGS TO POOR NATIVE INDIANS..They are occupiers of Pak and India as bastrds are always deranged goons only. White barbarian still rule India and Paki vide these lumpens they created, Both India and Pakistan need to free themselves of this scourge..INDIAN BRAVE PANJABIS do not even allow this filth inside their homes, call them BHAPAS (B..)