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Hurriyat selling Kashmiri people: Abdullah

In a hard-hitting statement against the Hurriyat Conference, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday said Kashmiris should beware of the "so-called bunch of seven people" who were "selling" them to Pakistan.

"The Hurriyat Conference has been taking money from not only anti-nationals, but also from people who are anti-Kashmiri. An open example of it is the recent threat by a militant outfit to one of the so-called executive members of the Hurriyat asking him to return the money," Abdullah, who was in New Delhi to attend the Chief Ministers' Conference on Tourism, said.

Recently, a militant organisation, Al-Badr, had threatened senior Hurriyat executive committee leader Abdul Gani Lone asking him to return some money that he "owed" to the outfit.

"I have been regularly saying that this bunch of seven jokers has been ruining the fate of Kashmiris and only serving as an extension of the Pakistan high commission," the chief minister said.

Stating that the number of Pakistan sympathisers had come down to a trickle in the state, he said the new "development should serve as a warning to them that Islamabad has never been serious about Kashmiris".

Abdullah said the Hurriyat leaders had rushed to New Delhi and requested the Pakistan high commission to exert pressure on the militants to stop their anti-Hurriyat statements.

The two Hurriyat leaders camping in the capital were chairman Abdul Gani Bhat and former chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, he said.

Abdullah said the Hurriyat leaders had faced charges of swindling money earlier also.

PTI

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