Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah today launched his biggest attack on incumbent Mehbooba Mufti yet accusing her of being hand-in-glove with Hurriyat, India Today reports said.
Talking to reporters in New Delhi, Farooq Abdullah claimed that Mehbooba Mufti was secretly backing Kashmiri separatists.
“She (Mehbooba) is hand-in-glove with Hurriyat. One of her ministers write the statements that (separatist leader Syed Ali Shah) Geelani give,” Abdullah said, adding, “PDP won Assembly election because of Hurriyat.”
The outspoken former Jammu and Kashmir CM described the arrest of eight separatist leaders for receiving funds from Pakistan to fab unrest in the Valley as a good move.
*”It is a very good development. We all we know where is the money coming from,”* Abdullah said.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested top separatist leaders days afteran India Today expose. India Today’s investigation revealed how these Kashmiri separatists were receiving funds from Pakistan to trigger trouble in the region.
While seven separatist leaders were arrested on Monday , Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (JKDFP) president Shabir Shah was held late on Tuesday.
In May, the NIA had visited Srinagar to probe into the alleged funding by Pakistan for illegal activities in Kashmir, and questioned separatist leaders regarding their involvement in raising, collecting and transferring funds through Hawala and other channels for terror funding in Kashmir.
Hurriyat leaders Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Syed Ali Shah Geelani are already under house arrest while Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Yasin Malik is also under arrest.
( courtesy India Today)