10-15-2005, 12:55 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Central agencies monitoring sources of separatists' funding</b>
KT NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, Oct 14: Alarmed by the separatist groups in Jammu and Kashmir generously donating for the earthquake victims' relief despite chocking of their funding routes, the Home Ministry on Friday asked its agencies to closely monitor their relief operations to dig out the sources from which money still flows to them.
The Home Ministry sources said the government was also not happy with the moderate <b>All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC) opening two bank accounts in the Saudi Arabia and the United States besides another account in Srinagar</b>.
The funds are to be used for relief in Jammu and Kashmir and hence it would have been sufficient for the Hurriyat to open a bank account in Srinagar or Delhi, sources said. The Government agencies can not keep track of the funding if money comes in banks abroad.
The Hurriyat Conference led by<b> Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has so far dispatched seven trucks full of rice, flour, pulses, cooking oil, sugar and warm clothes as well as blankets to affected areas. They were even first to reach villages cut off from rest of the world.</b>
Hardliner Hurriyat group's leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani also on Thursday led a convoy of trucks and distributed essential items among the quake affected people in Bijhama-Uri.
Mirwaiz, who led special prayers for the quake-hit at Srinagar's historic Jamia Masjid on Friday offered full cooperation to the government in the rehabilitation of victims. He also asked people to contribute generously to the relief funds raised for the quake-ravaged people.
The Mirwaiz reiterated his demand for opening of all routes connecting the two parts of Kashmir divided by the Line of Control saying people on both sides were very concerned about the fate of their near and dear ones.
"This line has not been drawn on a piece of land but across our hearts," he said and asked India and Pakistan to act on humanitarian grounds.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
KT NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, Oct 14: Alarmed by the separatist groups in Jammu and Kashmir generously donating for the earthquake victims' relief despite chocking of their funding routes, the Home Ministry on Friday asked its agencies to closely monitor their relief operations to dig out the sources from which money still flows to them.
The Home Ministry sources said the government was also not happy with the moderate <b>All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC) opening two bank accounts in the Saudi Arabia and the United States besides another account in Srinagar</b>.
The funds are to be used for relief in Jammu and Kashmir and hence it would have been sufficient for the Hurriyat to open a bank account in Srinagar or Delhi, sources said. The Government agencies can not keep track of the funding if money comes in banks abroad.
The Hurriyat Conference led by<b> Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has so far dispatched seven trucks full of rice, flour, pulses, cooking oil, sugar and warm clothes as well as blankets to affected areas. They were even first to reach villages cut off from rest of the world.</b>
Hardliner Hurriyat group's leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani also on Thursday led a convoy of trucks and distributed essential items among the quake affected people in Bijhama-Uri.
Mirwaiz, who led special prayers for the quake-hit at Srinagar's historic Jamia Masjid on Friday offered full cooperation to the government in the rehabilitation of victims. He also asked people to contribute generously to the relief funds raised for the quake-ravaged people.
The Mirwaiz reiterated his demand for opening of all routes connecting the two parts of Kashmir divided by the Line of Control saying people on both sides were very concerned about the fate of their near and dear ones.
"This line has not been drawn on a piece of land but across our hearts," he said and asked India and Pakistan to act on humanitarian grounds.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->