KS-Media Round-Up - J&K Youth Allured

JAMMU, March 17. Young Kashmiri youths are taken to Pakistan to evoke sympathy and raise funds by militants particularly by the banned Jamaat-i- Islami activists and the money is then used for militants' own comfort, according to a JKLF leader.

An arrested activist of the outlawed Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front and editor of a Pak- occupied Kashmir's weekly, Mohammad Ashraf Bhat, told a group of journalists that while extortion had become a part of the so-called "jehad" in Kashmir, some Jamat-i-Islami leaders, who had slipped to Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK), are indulging in cheap gimmicks to mint money.

Narrating an incident, Ashraf said an 11-year- old boy of Lolab area of Kashmir was made to stand at a crossing in Lahore by Ch. Mohd Shafi, a Jamait leader of Baramulla, as a showpiece and soon a crowd gathered. He was heard saying "look here, he is a small Kashmiri 'mujahid" who had come to Pakistan for jehad (holy war). Such small 'mujahids' have come to your place to seek help for liberation of Kashmir".

Ashraf, a post graduate in Kashmiri and Urdu from Kashmir University, who has authored some books and several articles in the Kashmir Press, was "captured" by the JKLF in February last year and persuaded to work for them. Then he was taken to POK from the Lipa valley in May and was made editor of the newly-launched paper, "Voice of Free Kashmir '' at Muzaffarabad.

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Courtesy: May 1991, Koshur Samachar