Foreign support to separatists has been exposed: Dy J&K CM

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Press Trust of India Jammu
Last Updated : Jul 21 2015 | 5:28 PM IST
Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh today said that revelation of foreign fundings to the separatists has left them "exposed" and stern action will be taken against those found involved in such activities.
"The revelation of foreign funding to the separatists has exposed them," Singh said here today.
"These people are engaged in such activities. There is a law for it and law will take its own course. Those involved would be dealt strongly and action will be taken against them," he said.
"Those people (Separatists), who are claiming that they are fighting for a cause, have been bitterly exposed by the recent Hawala funding revelations. The foreign support to the separatists has been exposed," he added.
He said that any issue of separatism, we will deal it with stern hands and we will continue to take strong action against those involved in separatism and militancy.
On the issue of threats of ISIS here, he said that security forces are alert and active to foil any such design. "It is the responsibility of security forces to deal with them and they are on the job," he added.
Probe agencies have found a common link between money received by Firdous Ahmad Shah, a member of Syed Ali Shah Geelani's hardline Hurriyat Conference, and financiers of 26/11.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which recently filed its first chargesheet in a money laundering case in the Kashmir Valley, has alleged that Shah, Chairman of Democratic Political Movement, received over Rs three crore between 2007 to 2010.
The money was received from 'Madina Trading' located in Brescia in Italy and sender was claimed to be Javed Iqbal, a resident of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK). However, after Italian police arrested two Pakistani nationals in 2009, it was alleged that the firm had made nearly 300 transfers in the name of Iqbal, who probably had never set his foot in Italy.
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First Published: Jul 21 2015 | 5:28 PM IST

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