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Pressure on Hurriyat: Separatists on back foot as NIA crackdown widens
The crackdown continues with searches, arrests and examination of suspects in Srinagar and New Delhi, intermittently, mounting pressure on the Hurriyat leadership.
NEW DELHI: National Investigation Agency’s crackdown on the Hurriyat leadership, their relatives and businessmen in connection with hawala money transactions has put the separatists’ leadership on the back foot, leading to their political inactivity in the Kashmir Valley.
The NIA has sent notices to several people across the valley, including even those remotely connected with the secessionists. It continues with searches, arrests and examination of suspects in Srinagar and New Delhi, intermittently, mounting pressure on the Hurriyat leadership.
“The leaders arrested by the NIA are all of operational importance for Hurriyat. All of them are well connected and play a very vital role in Hurriyat’s outreach both at the political level and through contact programmes at grassroots level. The NIA crackdown has definitely dented Hurriyat’s operational capability on the ground,” a senior police official told ET.
All prominent second-rung leaders of the Hurriyat, barring a miniscule few, have been arrested. Top leaders of the conglomerate, including Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umer Farooq were already under house arrest.
Geelani has accused the Centre of using NIA as a ‘war weapon’ against Hurriyat to curb the ‘genuine political sentiment’ on the ground in J&K. Yasin Malik, released recently, meanwhile, dared the NIA to summon him to know the ‘truth’ rather than ‘demonising’ and ‘targeting’ family members and political colleagues and businessmen of Kashmir. Hurriyat leaders have called for a protest on Eid ul-Azha this Saturday against NIA’s ‘character assassination campaign’ and other issues including the Centre ‘tinkering’ with J&K’s special status.
Geelani, whose Tehreek-i-Hurriyat is under NIA lens, was recently forced to reshuffle his organisation to compensate the absence of key players including Ayaz Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Altaf Ahmad Shah and Mehraj ud Din Kalwal who are in judicial custody. Other leaders Nayeem Khan, Shahid ul-Islam and Farooq Dar are also in jail in Delhi,while Shabir Ahmed Shah arrested by the Enforcement Directorate is also in jail. Geelani’s two sons Naem and Naseem and Noor Muhammad Kalwal of JKLF have also received repeated NIA summons for questioning.
Jammu and Kashmir police insiders said the NIA has made a list of 30 people, including leaders and businessmen, whose financial details, properties and travel were being investigated.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...nia-crackdown-widens/articleshow/60315493.cms
@Levina @nair @Nilgiri @Kinetic
The crackdown continues with searches, arrests and examination of suspects in Srinagar and New Delhi, intermittently, mounting pressure on the Hurriyat leadership.
NEW DELHI: National Investigation Agency’s crackdown on the Hurriyat leadership, their relatives and businessmen in connection with hawala money transactions has put the separatists’ leadership on the back foot, leading to their political inactivity in the Kashmir Valley.
The NIA has sent notices to several people across the valley, including even those remotely connected with the secessionists. It continues with searches, arrests and examination of suspects in Srinagar and New Delhi, intermittently, mounting pressure on the Hurriyat leadership.
“The leaders arrested by the NIA are all of operational importance for Hurriyat. All of them are well connected and play a very vital role in Hurriyat’s outreach both at the political level and through contact programmes at grassroots level. The NIA crackdown has definitely dented Hurriyat’s operational capability on the ground,” a senior police official told ET.
All prominent second-rung leaders of the Hurriyat, barring a miniscule few, have been arrested. Top leaders of the conglomerate, including Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umer Farooq were already under house arrest.
Geelani has accused the Centre of using NIA as a ‘war weapon’ against Hurriyat to curb the ‘genuine political sentiment’ on the ground in J&K. Yasin Malik, released recently, meanwhile, dared the NIA to summon him to know the ‘truth’ rather than ‘demonising’ and ‘targeting’ family members and political colleagues and businessmen of Kashmir. Hurriyat leaders have called for a protest on Eid ul-Azha this Saturday against NIA’s ‘character assassination campaign’ and other issues including the Centre ‘tinkering’ with J&K’s special status.
Geelani, whose Tehreek-i-Hurriyat is under NIA lens, was recently forced to reshuffle his organisation to compensate the absence of key players including Ayaz Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Altaf Ahmad Shah and Mehraj ud Din Kalwal who are in judicial custody. Other leaders Nayeem Khan, Shahid ul-Islam and Farooq Dar are also in jail in Delhi,while Shabir Ahmed Shah arrested by the Enforcement Directorate is also in jail. Geelani’s two sons Naem and Naseem and Noor Muhammad Kalwal of JKLF have also received repeated NIA summons for questioning.
Jammu and Kashmir police insiders said the NIA has made a list of 30 people, including leaders and businessmen, whose financial details, properties and travel were being investigated.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...nia-crackdown-widens/articleshow/60315493.cms
@Levina @nair @Nilgiri @Kinetic
