Hizbul Mujahideen leader Zakir Musa has warned Hurriyat leaders that their heads will be chopped off and hung in the Lal Chowk here for interfering in the militant group’s “struggle for Islam”.
In an audio, which has gone viral on social media, Zakir is heard saying: “I am warning all those hypocrite Hurriyat leaders. They must not interfere in our Islamic struggle. If they do, we will cut their heads and hang them in Lal Chowk”.
The militant leader asserted that his outfit was clear in its motives of “fighting to impose a Shariat in Kashmir and not resolving the Kashmir issue by calling it a political struggle”.
“Those leaders should know that the struggle is for Islam, for Shariat,” he was heard saying in the over five-minute audio clip. IANS can not confirm the authenticity of the audio clip.
Urging the people of Kashmir to unite against the Hurriyat’s “hypocrisy”, Zakir says: “We all should love our religion and we should realise that we are fighting for Islam. If the Hurriyat leaders think it is not so, then why have we been hearing the slogan ‘Azaadi ka matlab kya – La ilaha il Allah’, why have they (Hurriyat groups) been using mosques in their politics?”
The Hizbul Mujahideen has been waging a silent battle to upstage the Hurriyat Conference since the 2016 uprising. Last week, the militant outfit also released a statement asking women protesters to not come on the roads to protest.
Militants from the group are also believed to be behind the killing of Kashmiri Army officer Ummer Fayaz earlier this week.
Meanwhile, the United Jehad Council (UJC) chief Syed Salah-ud-Din Friday asked militants to desist from issuing statement and asserted that there is no role of IS, Al-Qaeda and Taliban in Kashmir.
In an e-mailed statement, UJC spokesman, Syed Sadaqat Hussain quoted conglomerate’s chief, Syed Salah-ud-din as saying that militants on the ground should desist from issuing statements.
He said they should consult the top commanders on policy and freedom matters.
The UJC chief said that there is no role of IS, Al-Qaeda and Taliban in “freedom struggle” of Kashmir.
“The ongoing struggle aimed to throw the Indian forces out of Kashmir. It has been started by people themselves. There is no role of any other force including Al-Qaeda, IS and Taliban,” he said adding, “There is also no need to involve them in this struggle.”
Salah-ud-Din said India to trying to create a group like IS to defame the militant outfits are fighting against them in J&K.
“The IS has been created by the European imperials to defame the Islam and to break the militant outfits,” he added.
