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Yasin Malik: His conviction is just the start, justice now awaits family of martyred IAF officials
2022-05-21
Yesterday the conviction, today the fulminating. See Pakistan’s response here.
[OneIndia] Malik, whose organization JKLF was banned by the Centre, is also facing two CBI cases. These relate to the kidnapping of Rubaiya Saeed, daughter of then Union home minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, in 1989, and the killing of four IAF personnel in 1990.Separatist and terrorist Yasin Malik
...chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region...
was convicted after he pleaded guilty to terror charges before a Special court of the National Investigation (NIA) agency.


Malik on Tuesday pleaded guilty to all the charges, including those under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), before a Delhi court in a case related to alleged terrorism and secessionist activities that disturbed the Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
valley in 2017.

In 2019, Malik was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with a terror funding case. Malik has without a doubt been one of the most dreaded persons in the Valley and his crimes range from killing of Indian Air Force (IAF) officials, the genocide of Kashmiri pandits, just to name a few.

While the case in which he has been convicted is just one of them, the other important case relates to the killing of the Indian Air Force (IAF) officials.

Malik, whose organization JKLF was banned by the Centre, is also facing two CBI cases. These relate to the kidnapping of Rubaiya Saeed, daughter of then Union home minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, in 1989, and the killing of four IAF personnel in 1990.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) started the paperwork but haven't done much else on May 30, 2017 against separatist and secessionist leaders, including unknown members of the Hurriyat Conference, who have been acting in connivance with active snuffies of proscribed terrorist organizations Hizbul Mujahideen
...Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003...
, Dukhtaran-e-Millat, Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
(LeT) and other outfits and gangs.

The case was registered for raising, receiving and collecting funds through various illegal means, including Hawala transactions, for funding separatist and terrorist activities in J&K and for causing disruption in the Valley by way of pelting stones on the security forces, burning schools, damaging public property and waging war against India, the probe agency said in the FIR.

Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go....
, the Pakistain-based chief of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
, the front for the banned LeT, has also been named as an accused in the FIR.

Yasin Malik and ten others were chargesheeted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) under the Terrorist and Disruptive Act. The CBI named Yasin Malik as the main accused in both these cases.

The CBI moved the J&K high court seeking vacation of the stay and also shifting of the proceedings to Jammu. In 2009, the Srinagar bench had granted an interim stay of the trial before the special anti-terror court.

The HC held that the Srinagar bench had no jurisdiction to decide a case that is being tried in a Jammu special court. Justice Gita Mittal further held that the petitions filed by Malik and others at the Srinagar wing could not have been taken up for consideration. This particular case is one of the horrific crimes committed by Malik and the family awaits justice.

"I am hopeful I will get justice. The previous governments refused to give martyr status to my husband and treated killer Yasin Malik like Mahatma Gandhi. Pakistain must be crying over the conviction of Yasin Malik because he was their agent," late Squadron Leader Ravi Khanna's wife Nirmal Khanna told Times Now in an interview.

The JKLF is also responsible for illegal funnelling of funds for fomenting terrorism. The JKLF is actively involved in raising of funds and its distribution to Hurriyat cadres and stone-pelters to fuel unrest in Kashmir Valley as well as for subversive activities.

A total of 37 FIRs have been registered by the J&K Police against JKLF and two cases, including that of murder of IAF personnel, were registered by the CBI.

The organization was also involved in the kidnapping and killing of Ravindra Mhatre, an Indian diplomat posted the UK, in 1984. A week later, India executed Maqbool Bhat, a JKLF activist, who had been sentenced to death.
Another OneIndia article adds:
Malik has been investigated several times in the past for his role in channelising funds to create unrest and aid terror related activities in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. NIA sources say that the funding has gone both to terrorist groups and separatists as well. Money has been pumped into the Hurriyat Conference, Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, Islamic Students Front, Hizbul Mujahideen, Jaish-e-Mohammad
...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat...
and Jamaat ul-Mujahideen.

Investigations had revealed that all these funds were routed through a Delhi based Hawala operative. It was also found that Yasin Malik had received funding of 1 lakh US dollars and the money was being carried by a lady called Shazia. The NIA says that it is probing into all these angles.

We are looking at each case since the 1995 onwards and this will help us get a better picture of the entire racket, the officer further added. In March 2019, the Union Government banned the Malik led JKLF. The outfit banned for alleged promotion of secessionist activities in J&K.
Related:
Yasin Malik: 2022-05-20 Delhi court convicts YasinMalik in terror funding case
Yasin Malik: 2022-05-13 Yasin Malik’s unilateral trial in India widely condemned
Yasin Malik: 2022-05-11 Yasin Malik pleads guilty before Delhi court in case related to terrorism
Related:
JKLF: 2022-05-13 Yasin Malik’s unilateral trial in India widely condemned
JKLF: 2022-04-12 NIA court to frame formal charges against Yasin Malik in terror funding case on April 18
JKLF: 2022-03-28 J&K: More NGOs come under scanner as NIA gets cracking on terror funding
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India-Pakistan
Kashmir talks begin in New Delhi without separatists
2007-04-25
NEW DELHI - India’s prime minister opened talks with politicians from revolt-hit Kashmir on Tuesday in a bid to ease tensions in the divided state, but little progress was likely with separatists boycotting the meeting. The “Kashmir roundtable” has been billed as an internal peace process for the region and the talks are the third such meeting for groups in the Indian-administered part of the area, which is divided between nuclear-rivals India and Pakistan.

“There are two dimensions to the problems of Jammu and Kashmir. One is an internal one and the other an external one, involving Indo-Pakistan relations,” said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the start of the talks. “It is our intention and sincere desire to advance on both fronts towards resolving the problems through a process of dialogue.”

A peace process with Pakistan, known as the composite dialogue, was started by the two nations in January 2004.
And it's going nowhere as fast as the internal dimension.
Approximately 25 representatives of political parties and other Kashmir groups were present at the one-day talks at the prime minister’s sprawling colonial residence in New Delhi, an aide said.

But separatists in Indian-held Kashmir, where an insurgency against Indian rule has raged since 1989, say that the internal dialogue can go nowhere without the presence of the militants and of Pakistan. “It (the roundtable) is a futile exercise,” Yasin Malik, a former militant who is now a separatist politician heading the pro-independence Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, told AFP Tuesday. “Talks should be held exclusively with the people who question India’s authority over Kashmir and not with those who already swear by the Indian constitution.”

Even moderate separatists have dismissed the talks as a waste of time. “We are not against talks. But talks should involve militant leaders from India and Pakistan and both parts of Kashmir,” moderate separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said last week. Farooq heads the region’s moderate faction of the main separatist alliance, the Hurriyat Conference, which is pushing for total independence for Kashmir, and has held separate talks with India and Pakistan.
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India-Pakistan
Kashmiri groups attack each other
2006-11-27
SRINAGAR: Supporters of rival separatist groups on Sunday clashed with chairs and rocks in Indian-held Kashmir, injuring 12 people and four policemen, a police officer said. The scuffle broke out as Yasin Malik, chief of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, opened a new office of his group in downtown Srinagar in the presence of nearly 3,000 supporters, said Farooq Ahmed, the police officer. Police and paramilitary forces chased away nearly two dozen youth protesters who raised pro-Pakistan slogans such as “Long Live Pakistan” and battled with JKLF supporters. Malik’s supporters chanted “We want independence” from India.
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Kashmir Jihad takes on new ‘benign’ look
2004-02-26
Muttahida Jihad Council (MJC), an alliance of Kashmiri jihadi organizations has been restructured, with six smaller alliances within it representing various groups that will no longer use the words jihad, lashkar, jaish or mujahideen with their names so that they appear more political than militant. “These semi-alliances are the Kashmir Resistance Forum (KRF) 1, 2 and 3 and Kashmir Freedom Forum (KFF) 1 and 2, while only Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) is allowed to use its original name”, sources in the MJC told Daily Times.
You’d think they could at least have some more original names than Kashmir Resistance Forum 1, 2 and 3 etc. What about Kashmir Liberation Organisation, Kashmiri People’s Liberation Front and the KFC?
“We have been told that these names are damaging Pakistan’s image abroad as well as the Kashmiri freedom movement,” a jihadi leader said. Asked why HM was allowed to use its original name, he replied “HM also holds the chairmanship of the jihad alliance and quarters abroad consider it representative of the Kashmiri freedom movement alone”. Sources said this decision was taken in October 2003, implemented in January 2004. KRF 1 represents the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LT), Birgade 313 (a Harkatul Jihad-e-Islami faction lead by Commander Illyas Kashmiri), Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) and Al-Bader Mujahideen, while KRF 2 is an alliance of Al-Jihad, Al-Fateh, Hizb Ullah and Muslim Janbaz Force (MJF). KRF 3 consists of Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami (Maulana Muzaffar group), Jamiat-ul Mujahideen (JM) and Jamiat-ul-Ansar (JA), while KFF 1 is an alliance of Jaish Muhammad (JM) and Al-Umer Mujahideen and KFF 2 includes Islamic Front, Jamaat-ul-Furqan (JF), Tehrik-e-Jihad (TJ), Al-Barq and Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen (TM).
They could do with a bit more merging. Brigade 313 was supposed to be a new anti-state terrorist outfit operating in Karachi. Maybe they released Illyas Kashmiri the other day after he agreed to redirect his Jihadis to the Kashmir front..
This new ‘adjustment’ is called “Muwakhaat” (an Arabic word meaning agreement on the basis of brotherhood) and sources said this would also reduce the jihadi groups’ internal differences. “These organizations’ new identities will improve their image, making them look like political groups”, sources said. The MJC earlier consisted of 15 organizations; HM, TM, JM, Al-Barq, MJF, Hizb Ullah, Al-Jihad, Al-Fateh, HJI (Muzaffar group), IF, LI, Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, Al-Umer, JA, TJ, and all of these were Kashmir-based. Five Pakistan-based organizations LT, JM, Brigade 313, Al-Bader Mujahideen and JF were not the part of MJC but they have been included in the new structure. “The MJC constitution barred Pakistan-based organization from the alliance but circumstances have changed. We need unity and no one can deny their role in jihad”, a jihadi leader said. Sources also claimed Syed Salahudin will remain the chairman of MJC for five more years, being acceptable to all concerned.
It’s nice to actually have a Kashmiri here or there among the Jihadi leadership.
Sources said the Pakistan-based groups had asked to join the MJC, and claimed this wasn’t the first time that the MJC was being restructured. In January 2002, a formula for a merger was adopted but small and Pakistan-based organizations refused to accept it. They wanted to maintain their independent identity and most jihadi leaders were not prepared to be subordinate to small Kashmiri organizations”, sources claimed, adding, “this structure is an extension of 2002’s formula and now leaders of these organisations will not share responsibilities with others”. Sources said these smaller alliances would launch operations against Indian forces in Kashmir, but after permission from MJC leaders.
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