Kashmir News Network - Press Releases (11/19/2001)

For Immediate Release
Kashmir News Network
November 19, 2001

Kashmir Terrorist Visits New York, Says KNN

NEW YORK / Yasin Malik, a self-acknowledged terrorist, visited New York city for a meeting hosted at the Asia Society center on November 19, says Kashmir News Network (KNN). Malik is a top leader of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) a notorious terrorist group that killed hundreds of civilians during the early 1990s in the northern Indian state of Kashmir. At the start of the Kashmir insurgency, the JKLF was the main proxy force of Pakistan's notorious intelligence agency - the ISI - which has since been heavily involved in the creation of the Taliban and in collaboration with Al Qaeda. The ISI has also been linked to the Sept. 11 attacks.

By his own admission, Yasin Malik and the JKLF were involved in kidnappings and the murder of civilians in northern India. In particular, they targeted members of the minority Kashmiri Hindu community. In a riveting interview with Tim Sebastian, host of BBC's Hardtalk, Yasin Malik was forced to acknowledge his terrorist activities on television, but absolutely refused to apologize for his crimes.

The interview makes abundantly clear that this Malik continues to defend violence and refuses to accept responsibility for the attacks conducted by his group, the JKLF. Malik's interview can be accessed via the internet at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/cta/progs/01/hardtalk/malik17jul.ram

The strategy of ethnic cleansing adopted by Malik and the JKLF succeeded in wiping out, or forcing out, the religious minorities of the Kashmir Valley. Using Islamic extremism as a weapon, and supported by money, arms, and training in Pakistan, the "success" of the JKLF in fomenting terrorism in northern India encouraged the proliferation of additional terrorism training camps that have turned Islamic extremist ideology into a deadly weapon. Evidence of this has recently surfaced with the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, where Kashmiri terrorists have been among those killed by U.S. bombs. More evidence is available at KNN’s website, http://www.iKashmir.org.

Yasin Malik claims to have given up arms in the mid-1990's. However, he is a senior leader of the Kashmir-based Hurriyat Conference, which is the political wing of terrorist groups that continue to be supported by Pakistan and Al Qaeda. KNN believes that the entry into the United States of such individuals, who still maintain links to terrorism, is an insult to New Yorkers and all Americans, and should be thoroughly reviewed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Subodh Atal, Lalit Koul, Sunil Fotedar
Executive Editors

For further information, please contact:
Lalit Koul
Executive Editor
Kashmir News Network
Email: editor@kashmirherald.com

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