NIA has compromised on its credibility, neutrality itself: Geelani

Srinagar: Strongly reacting to the ‘highhandedness’ by National Investigation Agency (NIA), Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman, Syed Ali Geelani Wednesday said that this institution has itself compromised its credibility and neutrality and has taken the shape of yet another ‘oppressive tool’ being used rather misused with a sole aim to threaten and force the pro-freedom people to subjugation.
In a statement issued here on Wednesday, he said that more than a million armed forces equipped by a vast and deep investigative network have already suffocated the people and this ghost of NIA is just an addition in the armory of India to crush the peaceful voice of the Kashmiri nation.
Strongly condemning the NIA summons to Mirwaiz Mohammad Umar Farooq and his son Syed Naseem Geelani, Geelani said that “these cowardly acts of arrogance are only to fatten their vote bank.”
He said that earlier also NIA and ED arrested scores of pro-freedom workers including Dr. Ghulam Mohammad Bhat, Shabir Ahmad Shah, Altaf Ahmad Shah, Peer Saifullah, Ayaz Akbar, Raja Mehraj-ud-din Kalwal, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Farooq Ahmad Dar, Shahid-ul-Islam, Syed Shahid Yousuf, Syed Shakeel Ahmad on ‘fictitious and false charges’ of Hawala and terror funding, but could not prove even a single case.
Pro-freedom leader said that “countless raids on various freedom loving and common people have yet to yield anything to substantiate their narrative, but India’s media theatrics and their paid channels put every Kashmiri to the media trail even before judicial proceedings which has dented the image of this investigating agency to the extent that in Kashmir it used as a tool to strangulate every voice of dissent and with vast and unparalleled impunity it has been authorized to poke in everybody’s personal life.”
“Kashmir issue is globally recognized reality and such mean and timid tactics can in no way, demonize its importance,” he said, adding that “India needs to come out of the denial mode and show some sincerity, if not to us at least to its own people as this unresolved flash point can trigger anytime a human destruction and unthinkable destruction.”