February 1, 2018
NEW DELHI: Exposing the links of separatists with Pakistan
and terror outfits operating from its soil, the National Investigation
Agency (NIA) has claimed that a website of the Syed Ali Shah Geelani-led
Tehreek-e-Hurriyat and that of US-designated terror outfit Hizbul
Mujahideen are designed and administrated by the same person, that too
from Rawalpindi.
NIA’s chargesheet in the Jammu and Kashmir terror funding
case, exclusively accessed by TOI, talks about the technical support provided
by Pakistan to separatists. It says that Zakirullah, a Pakistani national based
in Rawalpindi, has designed and continues to manage Tehreek-e-Hurriyat’s
website www.thjk.org and HM’s site www.hizbulmedia.org .
“The Pakistani telephone numbers registered on both these portals belong to
Zakirullah. He also regularly stayed in touch with some of the separatist
leaders arrested and chargesheeted by us,” said an NIA official, quoting the
chargesheet.
Digging further into the association of separatists with
Pakistan-based state and non-state actors, NIA has mentioned that Pakistan’s
spy agency ISI has a “Kashmir Committee” headed by a Brigadier-rank officer to
plan and execute terrorist attacks, violence, stone pelting, funding,
recruitment, logistics and other anti-India activities. The “Kashmir Committee”
has members from Pakistani army, ISI, the Syed Salahuddin-led United Jihad
Council, separatists and others, says NIA.
NIA has explained in its chargesheet how the present case
goes beyond funding of separatists or their ideology. “It is an organised
platform run by Pakistan to integrate Kashmir-based so-called resistance
leaders with banned terror groups,” said a source.
The chargesheet states that the All Parties Hurriyat
Conference, a conglomerate of separatists in Kashmir with Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar
Farooq and Yasin Malik as its top leaders, has a convenor in Islamabad —
identified as Ghulam Mohammad Safi — while one Parvez Ahmad liaises with the
Pakistan government on behalf of Geelani and others.
“The documents, emails, messages, videos, statements
recorded by 300 witnesses and information collected through intelligence
sources proves that terrorists, Pakistan army/ISI and so called resistance
leaders from Kashmir are interlinked. Some traders, former militants and
businessmen operating from Dubai, Pakistan and other countries are also part of
this plan to destabilise Jammu and Kashmir,” said an NIA officer.
As first reported by TOI, without naming them as accused
in the chargesheet, NIA has already referred to senior Hurriyat
leaders Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Asiya Andrabi, Yasin
Malik and Shabbir Shah as the “organisers” of the subversive activities in
Kashmir.
Sources said that a probe against these five is continuing
and their names would be added in the supplementary chargesheet. NIA will soon
send a formal request under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty to Pakistan and
UAE seeking details about those working for Hurriyat.
In its 12,794-page chargesheet, the NIA has named
Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed, Hizbul Mujahideen leader Syed
Salahuddin, seven separatists, including Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s son-in-law
Altaf Ahmad Shah, a prominent businessman and two stone pelters.
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