Riyaz ul Khaliq
SRINAGAR
Syed Ali Geelani being arrested on August 26, 2016.
After Hurriyat patriarch Syed Ali Geelani shut doors on a group of Indian Parliamentarians, TV screens are flashing news that Delhi is mulling to scale down security of Kashmiri resistance leadership.
The passports of Hurriyat leaders are expected to be impounded to make their foreign travel difficult while the security agencies are scrutinising bank accounts and requesting J&K police to complete pending investigations in cases already lodged against them.
But not many Hurriyat leaders are secured. Only six Hurriyat leaders live with security. The security cover was extended to them after “threat assessment by government itself”.
Syed Ali Geelani is under house detention since 2010 and has been only allowed to move to New Delhi in winters. He is an acute chest disease patient and flies to Delhi for routine medical health check-up, party sources said.
“He has no security at all,” a Hurriyat Conference (g) leader said, “J&K police have been deployed outside his Hyderpora residence who have not allowed him to move out of his house for last six years.”
A family member of Geelani told Kashmir Life that the passport of Geelani was impounded several times. “Geelani’s 2006-07 Hajj pilgrimage was last time he moved out to visit any country as he was not issued passport at all.”
The close member of Geelani added the he wished to visit his ailing daughter in 2015 but “still the passport was not issued”.
Being a former member Legislative Assembly (MLA on Jama’at-e-Islami ticket), Geelani is entitled to pension from J&K assembly. “Geelani sahab has stopped receiving it in early 2000,” a Hurriyat Conference (g) leader said.
Kashmir Life tried to contact other leaders who belong to Geelani group but most of them are behind bars and many are being booked under notorious Public Safety Act (PSA).
Geelani’s deputy and Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Secretary General Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai has never applied for passport. “He was sad when Geelani applied for passport to meet his ailing daughter in Saudi Arabia in 2015,” a party activist said.
“Government has been rejecting our applications for issuance of passport whenever we tried to get one,” the Hurriyat Conference (g) leader said, “there is no chance of receiving any security support from state at all.”
The Hurriyat Conference leaders asserted, “whenever we go to Delhi or any other state of India, we pay from our pockets. There is no any incident where fare or hotel charges were sponsored by any one.”
Sehrai, Peer Saifullah, Ayaz Akbar, Altaf Fantosh, Raja Mehraj ud din Kalwal, Imtiyaz Hyder, the top Hurriyat Conference (g) leadership are behind bars currently besides hundreds of its activists. “Only Aga Syed Hassan from Hurriyat Conference (g) has been given security cover after threat assessment done by state,” the leader maintained.
However, J&K police cops are manning residences of incarcerated Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Prof Abdul Gani, Bilal Gani Lone, Fazal Haq Qureshi, Maulana Abbas Ansari and Advocate Shahid ul Islam.
“It is only JK police personnel provided by the state based on their own threat assessment to Mirwaiz (Umar Farooq) after the martyrdom of his father Shaheed-e-Millat Mirwaiz Molvi Farooq in 1990. Some police personnel are also provided to other members based on their own threat assessment to them,” Hurriyat Conference (m) said in reaction to “rubbish and lies being spread against the resistance leadership”.
“A DSP rank officer who looked after the security of Mirwaiz Umar was recalled by government ahead of latter’s arrest and lodgement at Chasma Shahi,” a Hurriyat Conference (m) senior leader said.
The close aide of the leader said the members of the Hurriyat Conference amalgam who are currently secured got the security cover only after they survived two attacks each.
“The J&K police escort gypsies carry cops whenever Mirwaiz Sahab, Abbas sahab, Bilal sahab move out of their homes,” the leader added.
Besides, Hashim Qureshi and Syed Salim Geelani have been given security but none of the duo is associated with any Hurriyat Conference.
“We have only ‘standing guards’ at home,” the Mirwiaz led Hurriyat Conference leader said, “rest, there is no security.”
He said that Mirwaiz Umar was given security after the assassination of his father in 1990. “His uncle (Maulvi Mushtaq) was also killed and later a grenade was hurled at his Nigeen residence.”
Similarly, grenade was found under the vehicle of Prof Abdul Gani Bhat in Sopore.
“When talks were initiated by (AB) Vajpayee (former PM),” the Hurriyat Conference (m) leader said, “the state gave us security as attacks followed.”
“When talks with GoI happened, we flew and paid fare from our money from our own pockets,” he said, “
The activist privy of developments said Maulana Abbas Ansari too was given security while after Abdul Gani Lone was killed in 2006, Hurriyat Conference (m) his son and executive member of the amalgam, Bilal Gani, was given Z-security cover,
Later, another Hurriyat Conference (m) leader, Fazal Haq Qureshi was attacked and is lying paralyzed in his Soura home. “He was given security after that.”
The spokesperson of Hurriyat Conference (m) Adv Shahid ul Islam was attack twice. “He has standing guard at home besides a few PSOs.”
Shahid’s ancestral house at Dalgate was attacked followed by a grenade attack.
On the issue of passport, the Hurriyat Conference (m) leader said, “no one among us has been allowed to move out.”
“They impounded his (Mirwaiz Umar Farooq) passport four years ago,” Hurriyat Conference said in its statement, “what houses, hotels and medical facilities are being provided to them and why? Why would India extend these favours to the ‘so-called separatists’ needs to be asked?”
Passport of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief, Muhammad Yasin Malik was impounded in 2013. “No one among us (JKLF leaders) has any passport or any sort of security,” a JKLF leader said, “we are thankful to Allah for His security to us.”
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