In a larger conspiracy to brainwash the young generations of Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan has not only opened its door for education of medical and engineering students from Jammu & Kashmir, but also it has provided them financial help.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA)’s probe in terror funding has found that Kashmiri students who went to Pakistan on ‘student visa’ to get admission in medical and engineering colleges were either relative of terrorists, former ultras or close to Hurriyat leaders.
In its chargesheet on terror funding in the Valley, the NIA said that terrorists who migrated to Pakistan were facilitating the admission of these students in medical and engineering colleges with the help of Pakistan Government and PoK-based Hurriyat sympathisers. They are also providing scholarship and other financial help to them.
The NIA claimed it seized a document from Nayeem Khan, an accused in the terror funding case, in which he recommended a student for admission in a ‘Standard Medical College’ in Pakistan because her family has remained committed to the “freedom struggle” through thick and thin. “Similarly a document was also seized from the house of Shahid-ul-Islam, another accused in this case, which clearly shows that the Hurriyat leaders were sending recommendations to the Pakistan High Commission for the issuance of Pakistani visa, to these students,” the NIA said.
“Further terrorists/ former ultras who had fled to Pakistan would pursue their admission cases with the concerned medical colleges with the help of Hurriyat leaders based in Pakistan and PoK.
“These students who are recommended for allotment of MBBS seats and engineering seats in Pakistan are also offered scholarship under various schemes of Pakistan Government,” the NIA said.
According to NIA, this showed a triangular nexus where in the terrorists, the Hurriyat and the Pakistani establishment are the three vertices and they are ostensibly patronising the Kashmiri students in order to prepare a generation of doctors and technocrats in Kashmir who will have leanings towards Pakistan.
“This nexus is amply substantiated by the chats retrieved from their emails accounts, Whatsapps, Facebook profiles and websites and also from the statements of the protected witnesses,” it said.
The revelation came as the city court on Friday took cognisance of the chargesheet filed by the NIA in the Jammu & Kashmir terror funding case wherein the agency recorded statements of 232 witnesses, including 43 protectee witnesses and have submitted 284 set of documents and 57 electronic evidences recovered from the accused residences.
The NIA had named 12 accused, including lashkar-e-Tayyeba chief Hafiz Saeed, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen head Syed Salahuddin and seven Kashmiri separatist leaders.
The court has fixed March 8 as the date of next hearing for arguments on charges and scrutiny of documents.