Terror break: 2 J&K politicians on the run; IISc & Lashkar link

A week after the arrest of a National Conference municipal councillor in Mumbai for his alleged Lashkar links, the J-K Police are looking fo...

A week after the arrest of a National Conference municipal councillor in Mumbai for his alleged Lashkar links, the J-K Police are looking for two “mainstream politicians” who they allege have been “running the fidayeen networks in Srinagar and Ganderbal.”

One of them is a municipal councillor, said Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, K Rajendra, who confirmed the search to The Indian Express. “It’s a fact that we are looking for two politicians (from mainstream parties). They are involved.”

Top sources say the politicians are from the ruling Congress-People’s Democratic Party alliance—one is from the Congress and the other is with the PDP—and are currently in New Delhi. “We are keeping an eye on them. They are hiding in the homes of senior politicians. We have sent word and want them to surrender as soon as possible,’’ a police officer said.

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Just a month ago, the nexus between militants and politicians was exposed when a lawyer and a businessman from Kreeri Baramulla were picked up after the chance arrest of bank robber.

The lawyer was a card-holding member of the Congress and the businessman from the National Conference. One of them was even allotted government accommodation in a high-security hotel here. For the past one year, the police said, both ferried militants to carry out fidayeen attacks in their vehicle which had a special security pass to enter high-security offices and residential colonies.

In fact, the assassins of J-K Education minister Ghulam Nabi Lone, too, were taken to the fortified Tulsi Bagh colony by the two.

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