Mirwaiz Umar to appear before NIA today

Separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq will appear before the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in New Delhi today in connection with a case related to terror funding. The NIA had on February 26 carried out searches at premises of several separatist leaders, including the Mirwaiz. 

The NIA probe seeks to identify those behind the financing of terrorist activities, pelting of stones on security forces,



burning down of schools and damaging of government establishments. 

The case names Hafeez Saeed, Pakistan-based chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), the front for banned Lashkar-e-Taiba, as an accused, besides organisations such as the Hurriyat Conference factions led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani and the Mirwaiz, Hizbul Mujahideen and Dukhtaran-e-Millat.