LeT chief may be funding J&K stir: NIA
Cops may detain organisers of the cricket tournament
Initial investigations by intelligence agencies and the National Investigation Agency have revealed that Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief and found of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, Hafiz Saeed, may have directly masterminded pumping funds through hawala channels into the Kashmir Valley to foment trouble after the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani last July.
The NIA has already lodged a case in connection with hawala funding to separatist leaders in the Valley, and with assistance from Central intelligence agencies, launched a fullscale probe into the entire network.
The Jammu and Kashmir police may detain for questioning the organisers of a cricket tournament during which the ‘national’ anthem of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir was played in southern Pulwama district on Sunday.
The video of the event has gone viral on social media and the officials here said that the district police has already taken up investigations after registering a case at the local police station.
“With the help of the video clippings, we are trying to identify the people who were part of the cricket match ahead of which the PoK anthem was played and pro-freedom and anti-national slogans were chanted,” said a police officer.
The match was played on Sunday and the amateur video which was later placed on social media and has since gone viral was filmed moments before the clash between Shining Star Pampore and Pulwama Tigers in the final match of the tourney played in the Pulwama town stadium.
In April this year, a video had surfaced showing a group of local cricketers wearing Pakistan green lining up for the Pakistani national anthem ahead of a cricket match played in the Valley’s Ganderbal district. In that video, the cricketers in the Pakistan kit could be seen standing while the neighbouring country’s national anthem was being played ahead of this match. The opposing team, dressed in the traditional white cricketing outfit, were representing India in the match, and had also stood in respect while the Indian national anthem was being played. However, the players in the Pakistani kit were later detained for questioning by the police and released after their meeting legal requirement.
Reports from Pulwama which with other districts of South KashmirShopian, Kulgam and Anantnag has been worst hit in post-Burhan Wani killing in July 2016 and where the number of local youth joining the militant ranks is increasing by the day, posters with photographs of slain militants were also put up around the playground while post match awards were named after some of the slain militants.