JuM threatens to take Qureshi to task

Dec 31: Radical militant outfit, Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen has termed the surrender of Hashim Qureshi, who had hijacked an Indian Airlines flig...

Dec 31: Radical militant outfit, Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen has termed the surrender of Hashim Qureshi, who had hijacked an Indian Airlines flight to Lahore in 1971, as "an act of treason" and threatened to "take him to task."

"Qureshi’s humiliating surrender to Indian authorities amounts to treason and Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen will take him to task when he returns to Kashmir," a press statement released by the pro-Pakistan outfit to local newspapers said.

"Qureshi’s statements that Pakistan was exploiting the sentiments of the people of Kashmir has been taken note of. Pakistan is our sympathiser and militants in Kashmir will fight till last to make Kashmir part of Pakistan," the statement said.

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While living in Holland, Qureshi indulged in propaganda against the "jehad" in Kashmir at the behest of India, it said, adding that was the reason for the Indian authorities provided him visa.

Qureshi, a resident of Nowhatta area of Srinagar, hijacked an Indian Airlines Fokker Friendship plane `Ganga’ in 1971 when it was on its way to Jammu from Srinagar and blew it up at Lahore. He served a nine-year jail term in Pakistan and then moved to Holland and lived there till he surrendered to Indian authorities on December 29, last.

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