Hurriyat Conference is famed for Using Religion as defense for Freedom and divisive agenda to separate Kashimiris from Development of the region. Hurriyat leaders have been criticised for inciting young people to violent agitation while their family members live relatively well-off lives in other parts of India and abroad.
Sheikh Mustafa Kamal, a senior leader of the Jammu - Kashmir National Conference and son of Sheikh Abdullah criticised Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani for working on "dictations" given by Pakistan. He accused Geelani of being "a double agent" on "the payroll of Pakistan's ISI".
Kamal said "Geelani has tried to 'ignite and incite' people by 'hollow slogans and destructive emotionalism', whenever even a Pakistani clerk comes to India and summons this ex-lawmaker(Geelani), he rushes to Delhi to take dictation about how to ensure that uncertainty prevails in the state
Paid protests
Geelani and his Hurriyat has been accused by the Indian media of staging fake protests by paying money to local unemployed youth.According to stone pelters who were arrested, each stone pelter is paid Rs 400($6–7) every Friday. Police said the money is being raised locally by Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani's followers. Most of the money comes from fruit markets and saw mills, Pakistan-based LeT terrorists also participate in stone peltings, the police said.
Hurriyat Conference is famed for Using Religion as defense for Freedom and divisive agenda to separate Kashimiris from Development of the region. Hurriyat leaders have been criticised for inciting young people to violent agitation while their family members live relatively well-off lives in other parts of India and abroad.
Sheikh Mustafa Kamal, a senior leader of the Jammu Kashmir National Conference and son of Sheikh Abdullah criticised Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani for working on "dictations" given by Pakistan. He accused Geelani of being "a double agent" on "the payroll of Pakistan's ISI".
Kamal said "Geelani has tried to 'ignite and incite' people by 'hollow slogans and destructive emotionalism', whenever even a Pakistani clerk comes to India and summons this ex-lawmaker(Geelani), he rushes to Delhi to take dictation about how to ensure that uncertainty prevails in the state
Paid protests
Geelani and his Hurriyat has been accused by the Indian media of staging fake protests by paying money to local unemployed youth.According to stone pelters who were arrested, each stone pelter is paid Rs 400($6–7) every Friday. Police said the money is being raised locally by Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani's followers. Most of the money comes from fruit markets and saw mills, Pakistan-based LeT terrorists also participate in stone peltings, the police said.
It is sad that the below instances were not condemned by Hurriyat even after widespread protests and were themselves involved in the brutal crime (JKLF) : Rapes committed by Militants in Jammu Kashmir. The Left Parties in India who are silent admirers and Social active messengers of Hurriyat including some popular Media outlets, also never condemned.
- In March 1990, the wife of a BSF inspector was kidnapped, tortured and gang-raped for many days. Then her body with broken limbs was abandoned on a road.
- On April 14, 1990, a Kashmiri Pandit nurse from the Soura Medical College Hospital in Srinagar was gang-raped and then beaten to death. Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front(JKLF) took responsibility for the crime, accusing the woman of informing the police about the presence of militants in the hospital.
- On 6 June 1990, a lab assistant at the Government Girls High School Trehgam, was kidnapped and gang raped for many days. Then she was sliced at a sawmill.
- Another women was abducted with her husband in Sopore. She was gang-raped for a number of days before the both were killed in November 1990.
- On May 5, 1990, a Muslim teenage girl was tortured for two days, gang raped and shot dead by Farooq Ahmed Dar of the JKLF.
- On August 13 1990, a teacher in the Education Department, was gang raped in her house in the presence of her family and then killed.
- On 30 March 1992, armed militants demanded food and shelter from the family of the retired truck driver in Nai Sadak, Kralkhud. The family complied, but the militants raped his daughter. When he and his wife tried to stop them, he was shot dead. His elderly wife was also raped. Then both the women were also shot dead.
- Journalist Prakriiti Gupta writes that there have been many cases of militants raping the young girls by forcing them into temporary marriages (mutah in Islamic law) – these ceremonies are called "command marriages".
- In 2005, a 14-year-old Gujjar girl was abducted from Lurkoti village by the Lashkar-e-Taiba militants, and forced to marry one of them. She was gang-raped by her "husband" and his militant friends.
