[Reader-list] Terrorist Yasin Malik distributes cash in Sopore, Geelani angry

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

Wonder where from Yasin Malik arranged to get cash? Worth investigating.

Kashmiri separatists feud for supremacy

*Yusuf Jameel, Foreign Correspondent
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*April 01. 2010*

Link -
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100402/FOREIGN/704019949/1135

SRINAGAR, INDIA // The Kashmiri separatist leadership is in disarray and an
ongoing struggle for supremacy between factions turned uglier last month
when the supporters of at least two of the major players clashed on the
streets of Sopore town.

The developments come amid speculation that Saudi Arabia could assume the
role of mediator between India and Pakistan, including the dispute over
Kashmir.

Supporters of Syed Ali Shah Geelani, the octogenarian leader of the Islamist
Tehrik-e-Hurriyat (TeH) party, allegedly set upon those of Muhammad Yasin
Malik, the chairman of his faction of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front
(JKLF), on March 14 in Sopore, 50km north of the capital, Srinagar.

Mr Malik’s group had spent the day distributing cash to locals, whose houses
had been damaged in previous violence between militants and the Indian army.

Analysts say the TeH viewed that as a provocative attempt by the JKLF to win
support in Sopore, which is a TeH stronghold.

According to witnesses, Mr Geelani’s supporters attacked the JKLF members
with knives and stones, injuring five. Locals, who said the police did not
intervene, chased the attackers away. The following day JKLF members
ransacked a TeH office in Srinagar in retribution.