SRINAGAR: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has now summoned senior separatist leader Javid Ahmad Mir in connection with the terror funding in Jammu and Kashmir.
The agency has so far questioned more than a dozen separatist leaders and businessmen in alleged terror funding from Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
A spokesman for Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), a faction headed by Mr Mir, said this afternoon that he was summoned by the NIA. Mr Mir was directed to report to BSF camp at Humhama in the central Kashmir district of Badgam.
The NIA filed a formal FIR against terror funding after National Front (NF) chairman and senior Separatist leader Nayeem Ahmad Khan admitted in a sting operation that separatists were receiving money from Pakistan for terror and stone pelting activities in the Valley.
The Agency later raided more than a dozen places in Srinagar, Delhi and Haryana in this connection.
Hardline Hurriyat spokesman Aiyaz Akbar and media advisor of moderate Hurriyat Advocate Shahidul Islam were also summoned to Delhi for questioning after their houses were raided last month.
Besides Mr Khan, Farooq Ahmad Dar and son-in-law of Huriyat chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Altaf Ahmad Shah were also questioned in New Delhi.
Both the Hurriyat factions and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) headed by Mohammad Yaseen Malik have condemned the raid and questioning of separatist leaders and alleged that it was just to pressurize them to surrender. “We will not be cowed down by such methods,” they had said. (AGENCIES)
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