‘Killed Four IAF Men, Abducted Rubaiya Saeed’
Continuing its crackdown on separatist elements in J&K, the government on Friday banned the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) led by Yasin Malik as an unlawful association for its extremist orientation and violence against the Hindu minority in the Valley.
The ban under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act is on the grounds that JKLF had spearheaded separatist ideology in Kashmir and had triggered the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits by murdering members of the minority community in the late eighties. The government referred to dozens of FIRs against the group.
“Malik was the mastermind behind the purging of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir Valley and is responsible for their genocide,” the home ministry said in a statement issued soon after the Cabinet committee on security decided to ban JKLF (Y), making it the second Kashmir organisation to be banned under UAPA in the past one month after Jamaate-Islami (J&K), linked to Hizbul Mujahideen.
Besides Geelani, JKLF best at mobilising stone-pelters: Intel
The action against JKLF (Y) serves to underline that a political solution in J&K will not involve separatists. With poll campaigning picking up steam, no initiative can be expected till the next government assumes office with BJP making national security and Pakistan support to terrorism a key part of its campaign.
Home secretary Rajiv Gauba said on Friday the Centre is following a policy of “zero tolerance” against terrorism and is committed to relentlessly curbing activities of secessionist organisations. NIA and the Enforcement Directorate are taking strong action against these organisations, he said.
“The organisation has been actively and continuously encouraging feelings of enmity and hatred against lawfully established government, as well as armed rebellion,” a home ministry statement said, adding that 37 FIRs had been registered by J&K police against the outfit.
Intelligence sources told TOI that Malik is the only separatist leader apart from Tehreek-e-Hurriyat boss Syed Ali Shah Geelani to have a dedicated set of leaders and cadres to mobilise stone-pelting mobs at short notice. While Geelani’s team has been rounded up as part of terror-funding case probed by NIA, Malik continued to have the wherewithal to organise stone-pelting at the ISI’s behest.
While JKLF’s original charter of demand was to carve out a separate state of Kashmir comprising both PoK and Kashmir Valley, Malik has for long been patronised by Pakistan and its spy agency ISI. Malik is believed to have also struck a deal with Lashkar-e-Taiba, having made peace with its boss Hafiz Saeed after the latter suspected his role in the murder of Maulana Showkat of Ahl-e-Hadith sect in Srinagar in 2011. JKLF, the MHA said on Friday, was actively involved in raising funds and its distribution to Hurriyat cadres and stone-pelters to fuel unrest in Kashmir Valley.
Pak violates ceasefire along LoC again
Sanjay Khajuria TNN
A day after an Army jawan was killed in cross-border firing along the LoC in J&K’s Rajouri district, Pakistan on Friday again violated ceasefire in Poonch district. On Thursday, Pakistan breached truce targeting forward posts along the LoC in Rajouri. An Indian Army rifleman, Yash Paul (24), was killed in the firefight.
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