Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence spent $4 million over two decades in a covert attempt to influence United States policy over the Kashmir issue, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has claimed.
'We want to ensure that no government in J&K will be formed without our support.'
The summons have been sent at the south Delhi guest house where Shah, the Chairman of Democratic Freedom Party of Jammu and Kashmir, has been kept after Delhi police detained him on Saturday.
On May 24, 2022, a trial court in the national capital had awarded life imprisonment to Malik, the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief, after holding him guilty of various offences under the stringent anti-terror law-Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA)-- and the Indian Penal Code.
The Kashmir Files has done a commendable job in highlighting the plight of Kashmiri Pandits, but has dealt only with the local factors. The cover-up has multiple reasons and it is time that a debate is begun to unmask the culprits who hid the truth, asserts Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
A little-known Kashmiri separatist leader is spurring the stone-throwing protests against security forces in the Kashmir Valley with tactics such as YouTube recruitment videos and protest calendars published in the local media.
'I went to jail and met my father to convince him to join politics and believe in the Constitution.'
Actress-turned-Congress leader from Meerut, Nagma, put herself in a spot after she confused late Shehnai maestro Bismillah Khan with Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha assured the newly elected legislative assembly on Monday that the Omar Abdullah government will make all efforts for the restoration of full statehood and constitutional guarantees available to the state.
While Jamaat cannot take part in the elections due to the ban imposed on it by the Union home ministry, it had shown interest in participating in the polls during the Lok Sabha elections if the ban were removed.
'PM Modi would have swept the elections in Kashmir after notebandi but then he scrapped Article 370 so all his good work went down the drain.'
We must repeal AFSPA to begin to heal Kashmir, and to enhance India's moral stature and that of the army, says Ajai Shukla
The efforts to forge unity among the various Kashmiri separatist groups received a jolt after hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani rejected the unity move of the moderate, All Parties Hurriyat Conference on Wednesday.
Justifying the security extended to separatist leaders of Kashmir Valley, Union minister Jitendra Singh has said that they faced threat from Pakistan which might attack them to blame it on India.
'The Indian government spent Rs 506 crore on security of the separatists in the last five years.' 'These separatist leaders must know how ordinary people live. Have you ever seen Geelani's son throwing stones?' 'The separatists have encouraged people into this stone throwing business. They have destroyed Kashmir.' Jammu BJP MLA Rajesh Gupta on why separatists must not be given security.
A senior separatist leader stated that Kashmiri separatists were 'not shying away from dialogue with centre but wanted conditions to be created for meaningful talks'. Addressing a media conference, Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) chairman Shabir Ahmad Shah said that 'conducive condition were to be created for a purposeful dialogue for the resolution of the Kashmir issue'.
'There is no point in just saying, 'hum wapas bhej denge (we will send Kashmiri Pandits back)'.'
Kashmiri separatist leader Ghulam Nabi Fai, who has been accused of being an Inter Services Intelligence agent and funneling its money into the United States to influence American lawmakers on Kashmir, has admitted to taking money from Pakistan's spy agency. During his detention hearing at the US district court in Alexandria, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, the prosecution said that Fai, the head of Kashmiri American Council, had admitted to receiving funds from the ISI.
Asserting that Article 370 is a thing of the past, Shah stated that no one can bring it back.
Before coming under the scanner of the investigative agencies, Pakistan's ISI had developed a closely-knit network of middlemen or straw donors through whom it illegally funnelled its propaganda money to Kashmiri separatist Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai and his Kashmiri American Council.
United States-based Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, accused of being an Inter-Services Intelligence agent and trying to influence American policy on Kashmir has pleaded guilty on federal charges of spying for the Pakistani agency.
After a series of raids by the National Investigative Agency on kashmiri separatists over the last two days, the authorities today prevented separatists from holding a meeting at residence of hardline Hurriyat Conference chairman Syed Ali Geelani, placing several leaders including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq under house arrest.
The Government decided not to file any case against hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani and activist Arundhati Roy for purportedly giving "hate speeches" at a seminar held in Delhi last week.
Hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani was admitted in a private hospital in Delhi after he complained of breathlessness and his condition was on Thursday described as stable by doctors.
Former R&AW chief A S Dulat, India's foremost expert on the Kashmir issue, argues that the central government should offer Kashmiri separatists a solution in line with the accord signed by Indira Gandhi and Sheikh Abdullah in 1975.
The separatist leaders told the Pakistani Foreign Minister that the Indo-Pak talks would be futile till Kashmiris are involved in the process.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said India "sticks to its stand" that dialogue must be held only on terrorism at the Indo-Pak National SecurityAdvisor-level talks, which are under a cloud over the issue of Kashmiri separatists.
Junaid Ashraf Khan 'Sehrai' whose father is chairman of the separatist conglomerate Tehrek-e-Hurriyat, was killed in the encounter.
The ED claimed that Shah 'only received donations in cash from locals'.
Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik will tie the nuptial knot with Pakistani artist Mushaal Hussein Mullick later this week. Malik, 42, got engaged in absentia to Mushaal, a 28-year-old painter who is pursuing a bachelor's degree at the prestigious London School of Economics, in October last year.
Pakistan Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani arrives in New Delhi on Tuesday to hold talks on Wednesday with his Indian counterpart Ranjan Mathai during which arrest of LeT terrorist Zabiuddin Ansari, who revealed Pakistan's involvement in November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, is expected to be raised by New Delhi.
Barely a week before Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to launch the Bharatiya Janata Party's election campaign in Jammu and Kashmir, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Monday sought to downplay the Sangh Parivar's long-standing demand repealing Article 370 of the Constitution.
The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front leader was to begin his 48-hour-long hunger strike on Friday but police had denied permission for the protest at Jantar Mantar.
"Yes," said City Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar when asked by PTI whether any decision was taken to deny permission for the protest at Jantar Mantar starting on Friday.
Not everyone in Jammu and Kashmir is optimistic about the alliance between the Peoples Democratic Party and Bhartaiya Janata Party. Upasna Pandey/Rediff.com spoke to Kashmiri pandit organisations to find out how they view the new coalition politics in the valley.
Senior analyst B Raman explains why the calculated arrest of prominent US-based Kashmiri separatist leader Ghulam Nabi Fai, who was allegedly trying to influence American policy over Kashmir at the behest of ISI, shouldn't over-excite India.
The Jammu and Kashmir government will constitute a Special Investigation Team of police to probe alleged anti-national activities of Kashmiri separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai and others in the state, which could lead to possible issuance of Red Corner notices against them.
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