New Delhi : The BJP shared terrorist Yasin Malik’s affidavit in the Delhi High Court, in which he stated that Indian intelligence officials asked him to meet Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed in Pakistan in 2006. In a series of tweets, Amit Malviya cited Malik’s affidavit, noting that he met Lashkar-e-Taiba founder and 26/11 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed in Pakistan in 2006.
Malviya added that the meeting was not Malik’s independent initiative but was arranged at the request of senior Indian intelligence officials as part of a back-channel peace process. Afterward, then-PM Manmohan Singh personally thanked him for his role. The affidavit states that Malik’s visit to Pakistan occurred in the wake of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake. According to Malik’s statement as seen from Malaviya’s tweet, then Special Director of Intelligence Bureau (IB), VK Joshi, met him in Delhi before his visit to Pakistan in the aftermath of the devastating 2005 earthquake in Kashmir.
Joshi allegedly requested Malik to use the opportunity to engage not just with the Pakistani political leadership but also with terrorist figures, including Saeed, to support then Prime Minister Singh’s peace efforts, according to Malik’s affidavit. In his affidavit, Malik calls it a “case of betrayal” where he says that he was sent as a messenger of peace by the previous organisation and was urged to engage with Saeed.
It was nothing but a case of betrayal, where despite working to strengthen the peace table, I should ideally be seen as an apostle of peace and harmony, on the contrary after 13 years of this meeting just before the abrogation of Article 370 and 35A of the Constitution of India.
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