NIA quizzes 3 Hurriyat leaders

SRINAGAR: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) questioned three Hurriyat leaders on Saturday to investigate the role of Pakistan-based terrorist organisations in fuelling unrest in the Kashmir valley.

Sources said that the NIA team questioned Nayeem Khan, Farooq Ahmed Dar alias ‘Bitta Karate’ and Gazi Javed Baba, who had featured in a news channel sting operation where they allegedly confessed that Lashkar provides funds to Hurriyat to carry out subversive activities in Kashmir.

A top NIA officer told TOI that the team was also trying to find the details of the functioning of the cross border trade between POK and Jammu & Kahsmir.