NIA summons Kashmiri separatists Mirwaiz, Geelani in terror financing case, to appear in Delhi on March 11

NIA has summoned moderate Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and son of pro-Pakistani separatist leer Syed Ali Shah Geelani for questioning in Delhi in a terror-financing case, officials said on Saturday, March 9.

According to a tice served on m,  Mirwaiz and Naseem Geelani have been asked to appear at  National Investigation ncy (NIA) hequarters in New Delhi on Monday, March 11 ncy officials said.

NIA h on February 26 carried out searches at premises of separatist leers, including Mirwaiz, in connection with case related to financing of terrorist and separatist groups in Jammu and Kashmir.

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NIA team, accompanied by police and CRPF personnel, searched residences of some of separatist leers, including Mirwaiz, Naseem Geelani and Ashraf Sehrai,  chairman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat.

houses of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leer Yaseen Malik, Shabir Shah, Zaffar Bhat and Masarat Alam were also raided. Barring  Mirwaiz and Sehrai, all or leers were jailed for some time.

NIA h questioned two maternal uncles of Mirwaiz -- Maulvi Manzoor and Maulvi Shafat -- and his close aides last year. Both Manzoor and Shafat are retired senior government officers.

NIA probe seeks to identify chain of players behind financing of terrorist activities, pelting of stones on security forces, burning down of schools and damaging of government establishments.

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case names Hafeez Saeed, Pakistan-based chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), front for banned Lashker-e-Taiba, as an accused, besides organisations such as Hurriyat Conference factions led by Geelani and Mirwaiz, Hizbul Mujahideen and Dukhtaran-e-Millat.