Early Times Report
Jammu, July 4: None other than the top Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Gilani has confessed that the Hurriyat is starved of funds. Earlier, tightening its noose on the terror support network in the Valley, National Investigating Agency (NIA) had arrested many top leaders of the separatist amalgamation Hurriyat whose sustained interrogation has made sterling revelations regarding the sources of their funding and the role of Hurriyat in terror financing in the Valley, stated Brig Anil Gupta, a security analyst and State Spokesperson of Bharatiya Janata Party. Interestingly, Pakistani terror mastermind Hafiz Saeed is one of the 13 accused charge-sheeted by the NIA so far which also includes Pak based chief of HizbulMujahideen (HM), seven separatists and a few Hawala operators. The same Hafiz Saeed has also been once again charge-sheeted by Pakistan under the pressure from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which is contemplating putting Pakistan in Black List from October onwards for its failure to act against money laundering and terror funding, revealed Brig Gupta. Pakistan which was the main source of funding the Hurriyat as confessed before the NIA by under arrest Hurriyat leaders, has also temporarily suspended aid to Hurriyat because of the FATF threat, stated Brig Gupta. The investigation by NIA revealed that this money was being used by the Hurriyat leaders to fuel unrest and terrorist activities in Kashmir and also for personal expenditure including financing of luxurious lives of their wards in foreign lands, rued Brig Gupta. Hurriyat also used to collect funds from business community as well as certain other sources as revealed by Yasin Malik during his interrogation. It implies that Kashmir civil society has also been instrumental in funding terror in Kashmir through the Hurriyat which was responsible for funding "home-grown" terror, asserted Gupta. |
