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NIA attaches 3 properties in Srinagar belonging to 2 Hurriyat leaders in terror funding case

2023-06-14

NIA attaches property of incarcerated Hurriyat (G) leader Ayaz Akbar in Srinagar

[GreaterKashmir] National Investigation Agency (NIA) Tuesday attached the property of incarcerated Hurriyat (G) leader Ayaz Akbar in Shalteng area of Srinagar.

Quoting officials, news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) reported that NIA pasted the notice of attachment on the immovable property that read “this is to inform all members of the public that the immovable property ie. land measuring 1 Kanal and 10 Marias under Survey No, 31 at mauza Shalteng Tehsil Srinagar (J8K), in the name of Muhammad Akbar Khanday So Ab. Rehman Khanday, R/o Malora near Imam-ul-Bana Masjid, P.S Parimpora, Srinagar, J&K, as Abadi Deh, has been attached under the Court Orders dated May 31, 2023 in RC-101 20177 NIA/ DLI, by the Special NIA Court, Patiala House Courts, New Dehli.” Muhammad Akbar Khanday is the father of Ayaz Akbar, who is presently serving detention in New Delh’s Tihar Jail since past six years. Ayaz Akbar’s wife passed away in April this year after losing battle to cancer.

NIA attaches two more properties in terror funding case in Kashmir

[GreaterKashmir] A day after attaching 17 properties of Zahoor Ahmed Shah Watali, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday attached two more properties, belonging to another accused, in the Hurriyat terror funding case in 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....
, the agency said in a statement.

The properties of All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC)

...an alliance of 26 political, social and religious Moslem organizations formed in 1993 as a united political front to raise the cause of Kashmiri separatism. In other words, a willing tool of Pakistan...

separatist leader Mohammad Akbar Khanday include nine kanal land and a 2-storeyed house in Srinagar. These have been attached on the orders of Special NIA Court, New Delhi, under section 33(1) of UAPA.

"Khanday, currently in Tihar Jail facing trial in the terror funding case, was the Spokesperson/ Media advisor of Hurriyat Conference (G). He was raising and collecting funds from within India and abroad through various illegal channels and was using the same to sponsor and promote separatist and terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir," the NIA said.

The statement said that Khanday, who was closely connected with other separatist leaders of the APHC, was operating in close association with Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) and he used to collect funds for unlawful and ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful activities. He was also actively involved in activities aimed at secession of Jammu and Kashmir from the Union of India, NIA investigations have revealed, it said.

The case, filed suo moto by NIA in May 2017, relates to terrorist and secessionist activities being carried out by ISI-backed proscribed terrorist organizations in Jammu and Kashmir. These banned outfits, including 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), 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...
(JeM), Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) etc, were using the APHC as a front for their activities, NIA investigations stated. They were spreading terror and perpetrating violence in the Kashmir valley by promoting and conducting attacks on civilians and security forces, it said.

The agency has so far filed chargehsheets against 17 persons, including Hafeez Saeed, the Amir of Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
h and LeT and a UN listed terrorist, as well as Mohd. Yusuf Shah@ Syed Salahuddin

...the aging, morbidly obese chief of Hizbul Mujaheddin and the titular head of the United Jihad Council in idyllic Kashmire. Originally owned body and theoretical soul by Jamaat-e-Islami he and his organization are currently controlled by Pakistain's ISI. Salahuddin's hobbies include crocheting doilies shaped like the Taj Mahal, combing his enormous beard, and eating....
, the Chief of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM).

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India-Pakistan

Blast at Hurriyat office in Srinagar

2007-02-01

New Delhi: Militants on Wednesday night hurled a grenade inside the All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC) office in the Rajbagh area in Srinagar.

This is the second attack by militants targetting the moderate faction of separatist outfit Hurriyat Conference in the past three weeks.

Sources said there was no causality or much damage to property and none of the top Hurriyat leaders was present in the office when the blast occurred.

The grenade attack comes in the wake of threats from militant outfits for the statement that Hurriyat Conference chief Mirwaiz Umer Farooq made during his recent visit to Pakistan, saying that separatist violence in Jammu and Kashmir had failed to achieve anything.

Mirwaiz and his senior party colleagues Abdul Ghani Bhatta and Bilal Lone, who had accompanied him Pakistan, are expected to return to Srinagar on Thursday.

In the second week of January, militants had hurled a grenade near the Mirwaiz's residence in Nijeen Chowk, though it did not cause any damage.

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India-Pakistan

Kashmiri separatists reject Indian talk offer

2006-02-21

JAMMU - Kashmirs main separatist alliance on Monday rejected an invitation by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to attend a conference to boost a peace process in the restive Himalayan region.

The conference, scheduled for Saturday, has been called by New Delhi to widen the dialogue in Jammu and Kashmir where a revolt against Indian rule by Islamist militants has killed more than 45,000 people since 1989. Singh has called minority Hindu groups in the region, pro-India political parties as well as separatist groups for the peace conference but has not invited nuclear rival Pakistan with which New Delhi has a separate peace process.

The All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC), a conglomerate of separatist political groups, said it will not attend as New Delhi had not taken measures in Kashmir to ease the ground situation for Kashmiris that would have built trust ahead of dialogue. The Hurriyat has decided not to participate in the conference as it opines that it would harm the peace process rather than benefit it, Hurriyat chief Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said in a statement from Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir.

"We might get whacked on the road, and you can't tell me that wouldn't harm dialogue, especially my end of it!"

The alliance also said Singh had not invited Pakistan to the conference. It said it wanted Islamabad to be part of three-way talks between New Delhi, Islamabad and the alliance over the region, which is the cause of two of three India-Pakistan wars. Pro-Indian political parties in the state as well as Kashmiri Hindu groups have said they would attend the conference.

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Afghanistan/South Asia

Ansari quits to strengthen Hurriyat

2004-07-08

NEW DELHI: In an apparent bid to unite various pro-freedom groups in Kashmir, moderate All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC) chairman Maulana Abbass Ansari on Wednesday stepped down and appointed Mirwaiz Umer Farooq as the interim chief. Ansari quit the post at a meeting of the Hurriyat executive council held at Hurriyat headquarters in Srinagar and asked Mirwaiz Farooq, its founder chairman, to take over the reins.

A statement issued after an hour-long meeting said that Ansari had urged Mirwaiz Farooq to redouble unity efforts and consult all executive and general council members to restore the constitutional shape of the pro-freedom alliance. The statement said fresh elections would be held for the post of the chairman once the unity process was over. However the statement would not mention the third round of talks with the new Indian leadership, which was supposed to be the main agenda of the meeting. Soon after Ansariâs elevation as chairman last September, the Hurriyat had a split. First, senior leader Syed Ali Geelani walked away and formed his own faction. His exit was followed by Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik and Peopleâs League chief Sheikh Abdul Aziz.

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India-Pakistan

Hurriyat offers to broker truce with PoK rebels

2002-06-19

Indian Kashmir's main separatist alliance on Wednesday asked that its leaders be allowed to visit Pakistan occupied territory to negotiate a ceasefire to help resolve the half-century dispute. Abdul Gani Bhat, the chairman of the All Party Hurriyat Conference, said members of the alliance wanted to travel to Pakistan occupied Kashmir to meet with leaders of the "mujahedin". "We will negotiate peace with them and a peaceful resolution to the dispute of Jammu and Kashmir," Bhat told reporters in Srinagar. "We would want a ceasefire to happen," Bhat said. "Obviously if a forward movement is intended, we will have to give peace a chance."
Until they can get some more arms and ammunition in there...
The Hurriyat, comprising two dozen groups that favour either independence or its accession to Pakistan, had urged Pakistan-backed rebels to reciprocate a unilateral ceasefire on offensive operations India announced in November 2000. But most militants spurned the request and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee withdrew the ceasefire after six months.
Since fire hadn't ceased...
During the truce Hurriyat leaders also asked to travel to Pakistan, a request India denied. Bhat said the Hurriyat had wanted to convert Vajpayee's ceasefire "into a meaningful, purposeful and substantive political process. But the visit for one reason or the other did not happen."
Probably had something to do with all the dead bodies.

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India-Pakistan

Abdul Ghani Lone assassinated

2002-05-21

A leader of a Muslim separatist group in Kashmir was shot to death along with his bodyguard during a memorial rally on Tuesday. The killing occurred as India's prime minister was headed to the Himalayan province at a time of rising tensions with Pakistan.
The Bad Guys are doing their best to cause Kashmir to explode, with war between India and Pakistan. When it's over, they expect to pick up the pieces...
Abdul Ghani Lone, who in April had been attacked in a hospital by a Hindu nationalist, was shot dead in a cemetery at a memorial gathering commemorating the 12th anniversary of the assassination of a Kashmiri independence leader. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
A symbolic, even a sentimental gesture. The Bad Guys expect to be able to bump off somebody else, just as important, a dozen years from now, too.
Lone was one of the leaders of the All Party Hurriyat Conference, a group of political and religious parties that advocate Muslim-majority Kashmir's separation from predominantly Hindu India. In December, he asked militants in the troubled state to give a positive response to Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's declaration of a unilateral cease-fire.
And a week later somebody tried to bump him off...
On Tuesday, he was sitting on a platform in front of a crowd of 5,000 people, when three masked men approached and he was shot. One of the men rolled a grenade into the crowd, but it did not explode. Lone and two bodyguards were rushed to a hospital. Lone and one of the guards died. The other guard was being treated for injuries.
Poor Lone probably guessed he would someday end up like this as a member of Kashmir's extremely narrow middle. On the one side he had the vicious killers of the jehadi groups, on the other the Hindu brownshirts of Shiv Sena. Chances are even as to which side did him in, though the masks and the grenade rolled into the crowd suggests it was the jehadis.

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India-Pakistan

Shiv Sena thugs accused of roughing up Yasin Malik

2002-05-08

JKLF chief Yasin Malik, who has been in custody for six weeks, was manhandled and subjected to verbal abuse by Shiv Sena activists when he was taken for a hospital check-up in Jammu, the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) said. "The assault on our leader can have serious repercussions," the JKLF's acting chairman, Javed Mir, said in a statement. The JKLF called a one-day strike for Friday to protest the "assault and continuing state-sponsored terrorism" in Kashmir.
Ummm... Usually I make it a point to disagree with Liberation Fronts, but in this case they're right...
The strike call has been endorsed by All Party Hurriyat Conference. But police in Jammu denied Malik had been physically attacked, saying bodyguards blocked the Shiv Sena activists who had barged into the hospital room hurling abuse.
The fact that the hospital happened to be swarming with brownshirts when Malik arrived suggests to me that the fix was in and that he probably did get thumped. If the coppers had done their job, they wouldn't have been in there. It looks to me like Shiv Sena/VHP/RSS wants to set off a first-class shootin' war, and BJP is lap-dogging it.

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India-Pakistan

JKLF Big arrested in Kashmir

2002-03-25

A Kashmiri separatist leader has been arrested under an anti-terrorism law in connection with the seizure of large sums of cash India says was smuggled into the region from Nepal. Yasin Malik, who heads the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, was holding a press conference in Srinagar when police burst in and hauled him away. Police said two suspects -- Mustaq Dar and Shazia Begum -- told police during questioning that the money was meant for Malik.

Police scuffled with around 60 Malik supporters, and lobbed a tear gas shell after the leader's arrest sparked street protests near his Srinagar residence. The JKLF is a former militant group that laid down its arms and became a political party. Malik -- who is also an executive member of the All Party Hurriyat Conference, Kashmir's main separatist alliance -- has denied any link to the seized cash, totaling $100,000 dollars. The leader has been quoted as saying that Indian authorities were attempting to use the seizure to undermine Kashmir's separatist leadership. "They consider me an impediment in coming state legislature elections," Malik told The Associated Press, adding that his party had announced a boycott of the elections in September.

The Indian government is trying to persuade the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, a conglomerate of more than two dozen political and religious groups in Kashmir, to participate in the elections.
Wonder where all that dough originated before getting to Nepal, and what it was meant for? Just the other day, Nepal was saying it's getting tired of the foreign hard boys hanging around, and India seems to think the country's crawling with ISI agents. Wonder if this could have had anything to do with that?

A bit more detail: Begum revealed during interrogation that she had received the money from Pakistan administered Kashmir based Hurriyat leader Altaf Qadri at a hotel in Bagh Bazar in Kathmandu, and was told "this money was to be delivered to Yasin Malik in Srinagar."
What a surprise that the Pak side of the border was involved and that the Paks are subsidizing the Hurriyat.

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India-Pakistan

Hurriyat sez for Pak, India to cool down

2001-12-18

A top separatist politician in Kashmir urged India and Pakistan to tone down their rhetoric over last week's attack on the parliament complex in New Delhi. "I appeal to Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to cool down tempers," said Yasin Malik, a senior Executive member of All Party Hurriyat Conference. "I request both the leaders to show courage, vision and true statesmanship by co-operating with each other in exposing the culprits," Malik said, piously.

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India-Pakistan

Hurriyat's tired of foreign thugs hanging around

2001-12-27

A senior leader of the All Party Hurriyat Conference lashed out at foreign militants fighting in the region, saying their presence undermined the Kashmiri people's "indigenous" freedom struggle. "Ours is an indigenous struggle for freedom and national salvation and the presence of foreign mujahideen here only twists it out of the frame," said Abdul Gani Lone, an executive member of the organization.
Yeah, good idea. Get rid of those out of town boys. You see how much they helped the Taliban.

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