SRINAGAR: Union Home Minister Amit Shah taking separatists to task, he said kin of one of the Hurriyat leaders was earning Rs 30 lakh in a foreign country while children of another separatist Asiya Andrabi were studying in the foreign countries.
About 100 kin of the separatists were taking education in foreign schools but in Kashmir, they call for closure of educational institutions and mislead the people and youth of the Valley, he asserted and said 43 persons including 24 separatists have been arrested by the National Investigating Agency.
Shah said the Modi Government struck at the heart of militants training when it carried out surgical and air strikes across the border after the Uri and Pulwama attacks. Unlike in the past, foreign and defence policies have been segregated keeping national security at the core, he said.
“We have continued with a single approach towards the Kashmir issue but if the problems persists even after 70 years, it becomes imperative for us to review and adopt a new approach. We are all for development but there will be no place for separatists and militants here,” he said. On steps taken during the President’s rule, he said security cover of 2,000 people was reviewed and was withdrawn for 919 persons including eight separatists.