Yasin Malik admits his involvement in Rubaiya's kidnapping

New Delhi, May 9: Chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) and senior executive member of Hurriyat Conference Yasin Malik has admitted that he was involved in the kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed, the daughter of the then home minister Mufti Sayeed in 1989.

"It is correct, yes," was the reply of Malik when asked whether he was involved in the kidnapping of Rubaiya.

Malik, released last week after six-month long detention under Public Safety Act, was replying to a question in India Talks programme of CNBC which will be telecast tonight, according to a press release from the programme producer.

Rubaiya was kidnapped in December 1989 and the then V.P. Singh government had to release five hard-core militants in exchange for her release.

Malik, however, ducked a question about the killing of Indian Air Force personnel in the outskirts of Srinagar city in 1990. He has been charged by the government in connection with the brutal killing of six IAF personnel near Rawalpora in January 1990.

Referring to the Kashmir issue, he reiterated his "hardline" position that it was an international dispute and not a "centre-state issue".

Malik, however, denied that his approach to Kashmir issue was biased towards Pakistan. "Pakistan is a party to dispute as a part of Kashmir is also under their occupation," Malik said.
 

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