Kandahar hijack freed Mushtaq Ahmad, but shackled his family

Srinagar: Al-Umar Mujahideen still exists, but the outfit has been asked to lie low by Pakistan, claim police.
The outfit was floated by Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar, one of the three terrorists released by the Indian government to save passengers on a hijacked Indian Airlines flight. The other two were Masood Azhar and Ahmad Syed Omar Sheikh. Masood later went to head the dreaded Jaish-e-Mohommad, which has been held responsible for the attack on parliament.
However, since Mushtaq’s release, his family has been on the radar of security forces. The family had to maintain a low profile. For the last 10 years his relatives were hardly seen in public domain, purportedly due to the pressure and the constant surveillance.
They disconnected their phones. Zargar’s brother Fayaz Ahmad was arrested after Mushtaq was released. He was two years in the jail. Zahoor, the other brother, was also picked up from the street and interrogated for three months before being released.
Two years after Mushtaq became a militant in 1990, his brother-in-law Siraj-ud-din was picked by the security forces. He has been allegedly missing ever since.
“There is no end to our harassment. Every black law has been applied on us. Now please do not trouble us and leave us alone. We have suffered a lot. We don’t want to talk,” said Mushtaq’s relative, even requesting not to be named.
31/12/09 Ishfaq-ul-Hasan/Daily News & Analysis

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