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Terror Networks
Jihadi intimidation campaign against Kashmir assembly elections
2002-03-25
  • Al-Jehad has resurfaced in Kashmir valley warning people not to take part in assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir. The outfit, in a statement published by some local Urdu dailies, today said "We have not rendered sacrifices for power, but our struggle is based on the goal of freedom." Without naming anybody, the statement warned secessionist leaders engaged in making ways to participate in the assembly elections to keep away or get ready for the consequences.

    Al-Jehad was one of the front-ranking militant outfits in the Valley in early 90s and disappeared after the arrest and killing of its leadership and hundreds of cadres. Al-Jehad’s leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz, who later joined Hurriyat and became its executive member, is presently undergoing detention under Public Safety Act after arrest last year. Al-Jehad is the second militant outfit which warned Hurriyat leaders not to participate in the assembly polls.

    Earlier, Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front (JKLF) warned Hurriyat leadeship of "serious consequences" if they participate in elections, while another militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen asked the state government employees to stay away from the poll process. "If any Hurriyat leader including Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Democratic Freedom Party leader Shabir Ahmad Shah are found involved in any (election) activity, it would attract serious consequences," JKIF had said.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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