NEW DELHI – Kashmiri separatist leaders receiving funding from Pakistan,alleges Indian NIA .
The NIA has alleged that its probe into terror financing in Jammu andKashmir has revealed that hardline separatist leaders received funds fromabroad and utilised them for personal gains — from amassing properties topaying for foreign education of their kin.
The agency has interrogated several top leaders of Hurriyat Conference andother organisations and claimed that they had confessed to receiving fundsfrom Pakistan to fuel separatist sentiments among the people of KashmirValley.
In a statement issued Sunday, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) saidthe firebrand leader of Duktaran-e-Milat, Asiya Andrabi, was grilled by itabout the educational expenses of her son in Malaysia incurred by ZahoorWatali, who was arrested in a terror funding case.
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“During interrogation, Asiya Andrabi admitted that she had been collectingfunds and donations from foreign sources and Duktaran-e-Milat had beenorganising protests by Muslim women in the valley,” it claimed.
The NIA has already approached the relevant authorities for providingevidence relating to certain bank accounts used by Asiya Andrabi’s sonMohammad bin Qasim while he was in the university, it said.