Hurriyat terror funding: Separatists brought in funds from London, Dubai

When Shahid was arrested the NIA had seized a list which had the names of 150 terrorists in it.

Arrests of top separatists in the Kashmir Valley is just round the corner with the National Investigation Agency unearthing shocking details in the Hurriyat terror funding case.

The questioning of Shahid Islam, a key aide of Mirwaiz Umer Farooq has revealed that funds were being routed into Kashmir not just through Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, but from London and Dubai as well. Shahid was arrested in July along with scores of others in connection with the case.

An NIA officer when asked if the ambit of the probe would widen said that there are new leads that have crept in. Currently we are connecting the dots. The persons who have been arrested have been questioned and now their statements are being tallied with the documents that we have seized. The officer however added that every big name in the Valley figures in the probe.

When Shahid was arrested the NIA had seized a list which had the names of 150 terrorists in it.

Shahid told the NIA that both separatists and terrorists in the Valley work in tandem. The money is first routed into the accounts of separatists from abroad following which it makes it to the hands of terrorists and also those who are selected to fuel the unrest in the Valley, Shahid also told the probe agency.

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