Don’t let Mehbooba enter your house: Hizbul to militants’ kin
SRINAGAR: A militant commander on Sunday dismissed former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti’s visits to families of militants as a pre-election “drama” and asked them to prevent her from entering their houses. “…Mehooba Mufti goes to homes of militants and expresses sympathies with them and claims that police are getting directions from somewhere to harass their families. When she was in power… family members of militants were harassed. Who was giving directions to police then?’’ Hizbul Mujahideen’s operational commander, Riyaz Naikoo, asked in a purported audio clip.naikoo said militants and civilians were also killed when Mufti was in power.
He added Mufti’s statements then were aimed at appeasing her erstwhile alliance partner, the BJP, and Delhi. “Now elections are near… that is the reason why she is expressing sympathies with the people,’’ he said, referring to the assembly elections that have to be held within six months after the imposition of the President’s Rule in Jammu and Kashmir in November.“whenever she visits them, she should be humiliated and asked to go back. She has sympathies with India and not with us.”
Mufti on Thursday visited a slain militant’s family in South Kashmir’s Shopian and asked security forces not to harass relatives of militants. She urged authorities to release the militant’s brother, who has been under police detention since last month. Mufti regularly visited the kin of people killed in violence in Kashmir after she left the Congress and formed her party in the late 1990s.