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Early Times Report
srinagar, Nov 10: After a crackdown on the separatist leadership into the terror funding cases in Kashmir, the National Investigative Agency (NIA) has got inputs that some of the mainstream leaders could also be a part of the "hawala nexus."
Sources said the NIA has received "credible inputs about the nexus between some Kashmiri politicians and the hawala brokers to channelize funds for terror outfits in the Valley."
Sources said some of the leaders from the mainstream camps have come under the scanner of the NIA and there was every possibility of them being questioned in the coming days.
It was reliably understood that the NIA may issue notices to some of the mainstream leaders who are accused of holding "backchannel contacts with the separatists and the militants."
Sources said the NIA has been getting inputs that some of the Kashmiri mainstream leaders have been into "constant contact with the militants and their over-ground workers for the last many years but want to pretend otherwise before the government."
The development is taking place some two months after the NIA chief visited Kashmir in August and discussed various matters including opening of offices with the Raj Bhawan.
The NIA has already been active in Kashmir against hawala racket whereas recently residences of some alleged brokers were again raided in Srinagar in areas like Lal Bazar and Nishat.
In the Kashmir terror financing case of 2017, 12 men were named by the NIA, including Hizbul chief Syed Salahuddin and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed in a terror funding case. While the masterminds of terror attacks have remained at large, ten were arrested.
They included businessman Zahoor Watali and separatists including Naeem Khan, Shahid Ul Islam and Noor Muhammad.
The NIA had also questioned Asiya Andrabi and two of her female associates, who have been arrested in sedition case.
It is pertinent to mention that Hurriyat leaders including Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik have been unnerved by the NIA investigations. The same now looks true for the mainstream leaders who have been holding similar contacts with the hawala operators. |
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