Author: Rajesh Ahuja
Publication: Hindustan Times
Date: July 26, 2011
Apart from 'raising awareness about the Kashmiri
struggle for self-determination' in the US and Europe with generous monetary
help from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency, Ghulam Nabi Fai
and associates also sent money through hawala channels to fuel the separatist
fire in Kashmir in '90s.
Hawala is an illicit channel used for transferring
money around the world by circumventing legitimate banking channels.
The story of Kashmir terrorists being funded
by Fai and his associates, London-based Ayub Thakur, who died in 2004, and
Toronto-based Mushtaq Jeelani, lies buried in the infamous Jain hawala case,
which raised a political storm in India in the mid-90s.
