Unknown persons want to kill me, says Ashfaq Wani’s father

Srinagar, January 11, 2014 (PPI-OT): In occupied Kashmir, Abdul Majeed Wani, father of prominent martyred liberation leader, Ashfaq Majeed Wani, has said that he has been receiving threats from unknown people.

Abdul Majeed Wani in a media interview in Srinagar said unknown persons even tried to run over him with a car, after his recent disclosure in which he claimed that the noted liberation leader, Sheikh Abdul Hameed, did not die of drowning but was poisoned by the Indian troops. He said that after his interview, he was experiencing unusual things happening around him. “Some unknown people either come to my shop as customers or follow me up to my home to give me threats,” he added.

Sheikh Abdul Hameed, as per official version, was killed along with half a dozen associates after their boat capsized when an Indian army patrol party fired towards them while they were crossing the Jhelum at Aali Kadal, Srinagar, in November 1992.

On Hameed’s 22nd death anniversary on November 19, 2013, Abdul Majeed Wani in a media interview had said that the former, who was a close friend of his son, hadn’t died of drowning. He also claimed that troops had pulled Hameed alive out of the boat and took him to interrogation centre where he was tortured and asked to work for Indian agencies. “He was given a lethal injection after he refused to be part of a sinister plan hatched by the Indian military intelligence,” Wani had said in the interview.

He had said that he still remembered Hameed’s body had not swollen; his hands, forehead, nose and lips were white. “Apparently after being poisoned, his body had been kept in a freezer to make us believe that he had drowned. On Hameed’s right leg, below the knee, there was a needle mark,” he had said.

Soon after the interview, Abdul Majeed Wani said that he noticed two persons moving around his house at Nowgam bypass in a white Ambassador car. “I became conscious of their presence and monitored their activities closely. They would come out of the car, park it at a particular spot and pretend as if they were fixing it,” he said.

Wani said that some days later when he reached near the spot, the same car came rushing from a wrong direction towards him and tried to hit him. “I fell down and had a narrow escape. I received injuries on my arm. The driver of the car came out and told me that this is a last warning to me,” said Wani, whose son, Ashfaq Majeed, was killed by Indian troops in Srinagar in March 1990.

Before the accident, Wani said, for almost two weeks he would everyday receive two to three local and non-local customers at his shop at Maharaja Bazaar, who would purchase electric goods from him, but return them next day, saying they don’t need them.

“This was unusual to me and it pestered me a lot. I was angry with all of them,” Wani said. “Once a non-local customer came to my shop to return goods he had purchased earlier, but after I refused to take them back he threatened me,” he added.

“He told me that he was a high-ranking officer in some Indian agency and that they have been witnessing my behavior for a long time. He also told me that if I don’t mind my behavior it can have bad consequences for me. I am sure I am being targeted for revealing the truth,” he said.

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