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| Hizbul commander attends militant’s funeral, cautions people about al-Qaeda |
| 2017-07-31 |
| [HINDUSTANTIMES] Hizbul Mujahideen commander Riyaz Naikoo was spotted at Sunday’s funeral of an operative of the outfit who was among two Lions of Islam killed in a shootout with security forces in south Kashmire’s Pulwama district. Naikoo, a 30-year-old postgraduate, is said to have told the crowd at the funeral that the Kashmiri separatist movement has nothing to do with global terrorist groups, al-Qaeda and Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... Thousands of people gathered at the funeral of Shariq Ahmad Sheikh, a resident of Takuna in Pulwama. The other slain krazed killer was Shabir Ahmad Mir of neighbouring Anantnag district. An army officer said the two were asked to surrender after a cordon-and-search operation on Sunday morning but they rejected and fired at the troopers. "They tried to escape and were killed in retaliation. An INSAS and an SLR rifle were found on them," he said. The killings triggered protests in Pulwama and an unaccounted number of people were maimed in police action to disperse the crowds. Valley newspaper Greater Kashmire on its website published a picture of Naikoo addressing the mourners and cautioning them about "efforts being made to defame the Kashmire freedom struggle". |
| Posted by:Fred |