Separatist leader and Dukhtaran-e-Millat (Daughters of the Nation) Aasiya Andrabi waved the Pakistani flag in the valley on Pakistan's Independence Day on Friday.
Separatist leader and Dukhtaran-e-Millat (Daughters of the Nation) chief Asiya Andrabi waved the Pakistani flag in the Kashmir valley to mark Pakistan's Independence Day on Friday. The separatist leader has been booked in the past for celebrating Pakistan Day on on 23rd March 2015 under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act .
Separatist activists have been hoisting Pakistani flags on August 14 for more than two decades. In the early days of militancy in Kashmir during 1990s, militant groups like Hizbul Mujahideen would hold full-fledged parades to mark this day, They unfurled the national flag and sang the Pakistani National Anthem. A group of DeM activists led by Asiya Andrabi had gathered in Bachpora area on the outskirts of the city.
Her husband, Ashiq Hussain Faktoo has been in jail since 1992.
In March, she had accused Salman Khan of acting like an an Indian agent who is pushing its culture on Kashmir. She had said: “Salman Khan is acting like an Indian agent to help cultural aggression of Kashmir by India." The firebrand chief alleged India was planning to export whatever is "immoral" and "un-Islamic" into Kashmir through the medium of cinema and for this, agents like Salman Khan were being used. She asserted that re-opening of cinema theatres would be opposed at all costs by her group. "We will not allow cinema halls to function in Kashmir. Whatever be the cost...”
In 2010, she was accused of doublespeak when it emerged that her son was studying in Malaysia with an Indian visa. The President of Socialstic Democratic Party of Jammu and Kashmir, Dr Darakshan Andrabi had said: "I was the first one to talk about the duality that Asiya was adopting. We were happy that she wanted her son to secure an Indian passport and study IT in Malaysia but this should apply for all Kashmiri youth. Asiya should ask all Kashmiris to secure an Indian passport and educate themselves. Instead she exhorts the youth to shun everything and anything that is India."
With agency inputs
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