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SRINAGAR — The 19-year-old daughter of incarcerated Hurriyat Conference leader Shabir Shah has been summoned twice by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case of 2005.

Sama Shabir, who is studying law in Manchester in the United Kingdom, was issued summons at her home in Srinagar. The first date for her to appear before the agency was on April 18 and the second on Wednesday.

Shah was arrested on July 25, 2017 in the 2005 case related to money laundering and alleged financing of militant groups.

The ED had registered a case in 2007 based on the investigation by the Special Cell of Delhi Police in the August 2005 case, wherein the police had arrested Mohammed Aslam Wani, an alleged hawala dealer, who had claimed that he passed on Rs 2.25 crore to Shah.

Sama’s mother, 48-year-old Bilquies Shah, a doctor by profession, has been moving from pillar to post informing the Enforcement Directorate units here, Jammu as well as its headquarters in New Delhi that her daughter is pursuing her studies in the UK and should be exempted from personal appearance.

Bilquies had to prepare a reply to the summon issued by the ED for Wednesday.

“My daughter Sama Shabir is pursuing her education at the University of Manchester in the UK and it has (been) communicated to your good self through a speed post letter dated 15-04-2019,” she said in her reply to the Assistant Director (PMLA) of the ED.

Sama Shabir was in news last year after she topped the CBSE class 12 exam by scoring 97.8 per cent marks
“Well, while I am completing all legal formalities, I wonder what does she have to do with a case of 2005 when she had just turned five years. How can this happen? It is really a pure case of harassment and the real purpose is known to the authorities only,” Bilquies told PTI.

“I am now preparing to receive a summon for my younger daughter Seher, who was three at the time when this case happened,” she said.

The mother said the house attached by the ED was built on a land that she had inherited from her father in 1999.

“I took a loan of Rs 20 lakh from Jammu and Kashmir Bank and built the house and the same has been attached now. Is this not an irony. I received an attachment notice and so did my two daughters who were not even born at that time,” she said.

The ED had registered a criminal case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against Shah and Aslam Wani. (PTI)

Srinagar, April 24: Several JK Bank and government employees besides SPOs working with police department were spotted at a gathering by PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti at Town Hall Pulwama in the southern district on Wednesday.

Official sources told GNS that several JK Bank employees posted at Shajimarg JK bank and at Zonal Office Pulwama attended the gathering by Mehbooba Mufti. Many SPOs and other employees of government departments, according to sources also attended the gathering.

Mehbooba also led a protest march of party activists in the southern Kashmir district against the suspension of cross-Line of Control (LoC) trade and ban on Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI).

The protest march was taken out from Town Hall Pulwama to deputy commissioner’s office and Mehbooba demanded the rescinding of the order to suspend the cross-LoC trade. She also sought immediate release of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik from custody.

“Malik is not in good health. I want to tell the Government of India that if God forbid, his health worsens, then the situation here will deteriorate further which will be very difficult to control. Our fight is against militants, but you should not harass their families,” she told reporters.

She also sought revocation of ban on JeI and an end to the ban on movement of civilian traffic for two days a week on Jammu-Srinagar Highway, the only surface link connecting Kashmir Valley. (GNS)

JKLF chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik remanded to judicial custody till 24th May 2019 Shifted to Tihar Jail Delhi.

Srinagar: Concocted cases and prolonged detentions cannot break our resolve to fight illegal occupation and oppression, will keep striving for freedom of my nation till my last breath. This was stated by the ailing incarcerated chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Muhammad Yasin Malik who was today presented before a special NIA court at Delhi which has remanded him on a judicial custody till 24th May 2019. Later on after the court hearing Yasin Sahib has been shifted to Tihar Jail, New Delhi.

JKLF chairman was arbitrarily shifted to Delhi from Kot-Balwal jail Jammu on 9th April where he was lodged under draconian PSA, slapped on him on 7th March 2019. He was arrested by NIA on the same day in a politically motivated and concocted case of 2017 in which more than dozen Kashmiri leaders are already languishing in Tihar Jail .He was remanded for questioning till 22nd April and taken to NIA headquarters. JKLF chairman refused to budge before the NIA bullying and obnoxious attitude and started a hunger strike against it. After many days when his health deteriorated he was secretly shifted to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi by NIA. He was kept in a dilapidated room, handcuffed wherein authorities tried to force him to break his fast but failed to do so. In the meantime a counsel of Yasin Malik advocate Sumit Koul approached court to allow a meeting. NIA lied before the court and informed the court that Yasin Malik was lodged at some safe house outside Delhi. Court ordered NIA to allow Yasin Malik’s meeting with his counsel and the said meeting was scheduled on 20th April 2019. It was this court order that in fact forced NIA to reveal the truth about Yasin Malik and his continuing hunger strike. Koul was allowed to meet him on 20th April and on the same evening a magistrate was brought to the hospital that remanded Yasin Malik on a judicial custody till 24th April and ordered NIA to shift him to Tihar Jail. JKLF chairman finally called off his protest hunger strike After 12 days and was shifted to TIhar Jail. It is also pertinent to mention that JKLF chairman was arrested by police on 22nd February, 2019 and lodged at Police station Kothi-bagh, Srinagar. On 26th February, while he was in police custody, NIA raided his house at Maisuma and after hours of exhaustive search operation couldn’t find anything substantial against him. In 2017 also houses of his sisters, relatives and friends were raided and searched and many of his well-wishers were grilled by NIA for months but NIA and other agencies were not able to find anything. Today JKLF chairman was presented before Special NIA court at Patiala house Delhi that sent him on a judicial remand till 24th May 2019. He was immediately shifted back to Tihar Jail Delhi after court hearing.

Meanwhile in a message sent out from court, the physically very weak and frail ailing JKLF chairman has said that freedom movements and freedom fighters do not fear concocted cases and frivolous charges leveled by the colonial powers. He said that throughout history oppressors and colonial powers have used concocted charges to stop peoples march to freedom but these tactics have always failed and are bound to fail in future too. He said that fictional cases and prolonged detentions cannot break our resolve to fight illegal occupation and oppression. I will keep striving for freedom of my nation till my last breath and will never surrender before tyranny and falsehood, asserted Yasin Malik. We are (Aashiq’s) passionate lovers of freedom and always ready to spend our lives in Jails, kiss gallows, endeavor tortures and torment for our Ishq (passion). We can die for righteous cause but will never surrender before inhuman, callous and obnoxious attitude of Indian state and its institutions like NIA, said the JKLF chairman. He said that all these concocted cases and oppressive measures are politically motivated and display the frustration of Indian fascist rulers. Unity of Kashmiris under Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) and un-parallel resistance defeated the nefarious designs of the fascist rulers and what we are seeing today is actually their frustration which they are displaying by using their institutions like NIA to achieve their political goals, added JKLF chairman. He said that ban on JKLF and other revengeful measures like these are also a part of this political frustration of rulers who want to bully Kashmiris by military and police might. Recalling the ban on Indian National Congress by British imperialism in 1942 and incarceration of the whole Indian freedom struggle leadership then, JKLF chairman said that just after 5 years of such oppressive measures British had to leave India and as history repeats itself India which is treading the footsteps of erstwhile British imperialism today will also have to leave Jammu Kashmir very soon.

SRINAGAR, APR 23: All Parties Hurriyat Conference chairman, Syed Ali Geelani expressed his serious concern over the deteriorating health condition of incarcerated leader Mohammad Yasin Malik and warned if any untoward happens to him, New Delhi rulers shall have to face the consequences. He also condemned the continued grilling of his elder son Dr. Nayeem Geelani by NIA at New Delhi.

He said that people all over the world are fighting for their political rights but the state of Jammu & Kashmir is the only exception where the political voices are being crushed with judicial onslaught, registering sedition cases against them through their so-called and biased investigating agencies which are not spearing even family members of the resistance leaders.

Pro-freedom leader said that that even the brutalities have its own limits, beasts too get exhausted but Indian atrociies, their unjust behaviour and the iron fist seems to have no end. By crushing the legitimate movement through its military might, Indian authorities has tried its best to muzzle our voice—but has utterly failed to do so, and no power on earth particularly the Indian might, its brutality can never deter us from our much cherished goal of right to self-determination, he said.

Seriously concerned about the plight of prisoners in and outside jails, All Parties Hurriyat Conference chairman, Syed Ali Geelani said that government of India has waged war against Kashmiries on every front. Daily killings by “operation all out” has put every conscious individual within the firing range of coercive measures. In the deceitful narrative of hyper nationalism, to pave the way to grab power, Delhi rulers have flooded its prisoners by Kashmiries. They sell their aggressive posture, through their paid media houses to befool their vote bank.

He said that many pro-freedom people are arrested in the name of “Terror Funding”, and are languished in Tihar jail without any legal aid which includes Mohammad Yaseen Malik, Shabir Ahmad Shah, Dr. G. M. Bhat, Altaf Ahmad Shah, Ayaz Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Raja Mehraj-ud-din Kalwal, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Farooq Ahmad Dar, Shahid-ul-Islam, Syed Shahid Yousuf, Syed Shakeel Ahmad and businessman Zahoor Ahmad Watali. Even the females Syeda Asia Indrabi, Fehmeeda Sofi and Nahida Nasreen are not spared. They too face the wrath of oppression and are lodged in far-flung jails in India particularly Tihar jail.

Hurriyat chairman said that Indian rulers have themselves made a joke of their so-called democracy and court decisions are influenced by the region and faith of the accused amounting to gross judicial activism, the recent example of which is the rejection of the bail granted by Delhi High Court in favour of Kashmiri businessman Zahoor Ahmad Watali, which was not only surprising but puts a big question mark on the free and fair legal system of World’s so-called largest democracy. Although in past also our people have faced the biased judicial system to satisfy their collective conscious, but recent media outburst of four senior Supreme Court judges, speaks volumes of favoritism and political influence in judiciary.

He said that on one hand Samjota Express bomb blast accused, even after accepting his crime, is bailed out, just because those killed were from a particular religion and region, and on the other hand every conscious Kashmiri, not willing to became the turncoat and stooges of the ruling class, is intimidated, maimed, arrested and even eliminated.

Pro-freedom leader said our prisoners are making history with their courage, steadfastness, patience and commitment, particularly those facing life imprisonment like Dr. Mohammad Qasim, Dr. Mohammad Shafi Khan Sharyati, Gh. Qadir Bhat, Feroz Ahmad Bhat, Bilal Ahmad Kota, Bashir Ahmad Baba, Sheikh Nazir Ahmad, Mohammad Ayoub Mir, Mohammad Ayoub Dar, Ali Mohammad Bhat, Latief Ahmad Waja, Mirza Nisar, Ab. Gani Goni, Mehmood Topiwala, Javed Ahmad Khan, Parvez Ahmad Mir, Gh. Mohammad Bhat, Dr. Waseem and others.

Those facing the notorious PSA, imported by our political vultures, more than 35 times like Masarat Aalam Bhat and others like Mohammad Yousuf Falahi, Abdul Gani Bhat, Moulana Sarjan Barkati etc and recently Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Dr. Hameed Fayaz, Advocate Zahid Ali, Moulana Mushtaq Veeri and others.

He said that now Srinagar Central Jail also bears a look of Tihar, where relatives of detenues are kept waiting for hours together in name of questioning and frisking and then made to see their loved ones behind the two layer iron net, which is distressing for both prisoners and the relatives particularly kids.

Hurriyat chairman, appealed the international community, prisoner’s rights forums and human rights bodies, to copel Indian authorities to, at least honour and obey their own laws and stop the revengeful attitude towards the political prisoners.

He said that arrest, jails and other curbs are part on any freedom struggle, but the nation which itself has faced this wrath and has recently came out of the yoke of slavery, was not expected to behave as ruthless and beastly for those fighting for the their basic and fundamental rights.

Srinagar: Kashmir valley is observing a complete shutdown on Tuesday on the call of Joint resistance Leadership in protest against alleged ill-treatment to Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Mohammad Yaseen Malik and other separatist leaders, businessmen and others by National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Enforcement Directorate; suspension of Cross-LoC trade and ban on Kashmir highway.

Reports said that all the business establishments and other commercial activities shut across the valley while traffic is off the roads.

Pertinently, voting is underway in Anantnag district in south Kashmir amidst the shutdown.

Meanwhile, reports said that the train service was suspended on Tuesday for security reasons in the Kashmir valley, as the JRL had called for a general strike.

We have suspended all train runs in the Kashmir valley after an advisory was received from police, a railway official said.

He said no train will run on Srinagar-Badgam and Baramulla in north Kashmir. Similarly, all train runs will remain suspended on Badgam-Srinagar-Anantnag-Qazigund in south Kashmir to Banihal in Jammu region, he said.

SRINAGAR: Former chief minister Omar Abdullah urged people to ‘vote to give anger a voice’.

“To the voters of Anantnag, please don’t reward the death, destruction & deceit of the last 4 years by staying home & boycotting the election. Come out & vote to give your anger a voice. Vote for the best candidate in the field, vote for @masoodi_hasnain,” Abdullah tweeted while seeking votes for his candidate.

SRINAGAR: PDP Chief and former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday while reacting to Narendra Modi’s comments regarding nuclear weapons of India said that if India hasn’t kept the nuclear bomb for Diwali, obviously Pakistan has not kept theirs for Eid.

Addressing a media, Mufti said, “Jo Pakistan ke pass honge, vo bhi Eid ke liye nahi rakhe honge. Yeh hisaab baraabar hota hai. (Those [nuclear weapons] possessed by Pakistan would have not kept for Eid either.)

Mehbooba Mufti, PDP on PM Modi’s remark, ‘Every other day they (Pakistan) used to say “We’ve nuclear button, we’ve nuclear button”…..What do we have then? Have we kept it for Diwali?’: Jo Pakistan ke pass honge, vo bhi Eid ke liye nahi rakhe honge. Yeh hisaab baraabar s

In a tweet, the former Chief Minister said If India hasn’t kept nuclear bomb for Diwali, it’s obvious Pakistan’s not kept theirs for Eid either. Don’t know why PM Modi must stoop so low & reduce political discourse to this.

The Prme Minister on Sunday had remarked at the Barmer rally in Rajasthan that “India has stopped paying heed to Paksitan’s threats… It is always trying to scare us with their nuclear weaponry. I want to tell them, our nuclear weapons are also not for Diwali.” (Diwali or Deepavali is the most auspicious and celebrated festival of the Hindus.)

Then attacking the erstwhile UPA government, the Prime Minister said, “Congress government missed the opportunity to resolve Kashmir issue in 1971 by releasing 90000 Pakistani soldiers who surrendered.” Giving a peek into his government’s strong and powerful reply to its enemies, he questioned the crowd gathered, if his government would have done the same?

“On this Congress leaders asked for evidence, now they are not raising this question because Ist & IInd phase poll trends have shut their mouths,” he said, making a witty remark: “Chot udhar hui, peera inhe hui, aur aansu bhi behane lage (The wound was there, but they felt the pain and even tears started flowing).”