New Delhi also plans to get support of European countries to designate Salahuddin a global terrorist
After getting the US on board, India has got its plans afoot to get the support of European countries too for designating Syed Salahuddin a global terrorist and thus clip the wings of the so called freedom struggle of Hizbul Mujahideen on behalf of Kashmiri people.
Senior sources in the government told DNA that the Executive Order issued by the US Department of State declaring Salahuddin as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit has provided India the basis to move forward to finally end the legitimacy enjoyed by Hizbul as freedom fighters.
"The US stand is definitely going to help us get the support of NATO countries that forms a big group of 29 countries. Once we get them on board along with some other friendly countries like Russia and Japan, it will pave the way for us to reach out to the UN with the request to sanction ban on both Salahuddin and Hizbul as a terrorist outfit," sources said.
Conceding that the US order names only Salahuddin and not the Hizbul Mujahideen, sources said it does not matter much and is bound to logically culminate into banning of Hizbul as a terrorist organisation.
"We have enough cases against Hizb to prove it as a cross-border terrorist group aided by Pakistan. Besides, Salahuddin is the founder and chief of Hizb and if he is a declared terrorist then logically how his outfit can be separated from him," said sources.
The pressure, a senior IB official said, has already building up on Pakistan which has already trying to portray it as an indigenous movement but we have proofs to prove it otherwise.
Pakistan on Tuesday described as "completely unjustified" the US designation of Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin as a global terrorist and reiterated its "political, diplomatic and moral support" for the Kashmiri people's "right to self-determination".
A statement issued by the foreign office curiously made no reference to Salahuddin, who also heads the United Jihad Council, but was clearly a response to his designation by the US state department.
"The designation of individuals supporting the Kashmiri right to self-determination as terrorists is completely unjustified," the statement said.
Reacting to Pakistan's statement, sources said, they are edgy because they know that similar steps taken by India earlier have been successful in declaring Lashkar, Jama'at-ud-Dawa and Jaish terrorist organisations and curtailing free for to their funding.
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