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Militants outfit orders senior
Hurriyat leader to return 'its assets'

"Al-Barq militants know how to recover the assets if Lone does not oblige," the outfit's chief Farooq Qureshi said in a statement faxed to a Srinagar news agency from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

Referring to oft-repeated statements of Lone that he has no links with any militant outfit in the past or at present, Qureshi said, "Lone was receiving trained militants at Dardpora in the frontier district of Kupwara - the gateway for infiltration and exfiltration of militants."

"It is better for Lone to stop issuing such statements and hand over the assets to our cadres. Otherwise, he will have to face the consequences," the statement said.

The fax statement was signed by Parvaiz Khan, the outfit's publicity in-charge.

All efforts to contact Lone on Sunday failed.

But the Hurriyat leader had told PTI on October 4 that the allegations of him having connections with militant organisations were 'baseless and malicious'.

Lone had said neither he nor his People's Conference party had any link with militant outfits in the past or at present.

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