MUZAFFARABAD: A top Kashmiri militant leader has said that Indian agencies are constantly victimising his family members in India-held Kashmir to force him abandon his pro-freedom activities but added that they will not succeed.

Issued on Monday, the statement of Syed Salahuddin, supreme leader of Hizbul Mujahideen, Kashmir’s largest and mainly indigenous militant outfit, came in the wake of arrest of his son Syed Shakil Ahmad by India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) during a night raid at his residence in Rambagh area of Srinagar, last Thursday in a funding case.

Ahmad, who works as a lab technician in a health facility in Srinagar, was shifted to India’s infamous Tihar jail in New Delhi.

In October last year, the NIA had arrested Ahmad’s elder sibling Syed Shahid Yousuf, an employee of the agriculture department, in the same case, who has also been languishing in Tihar jail ever since.

Published in Dawn, September 4th, 2018