New Delhi, May 29:
Unable to carry out Pakistan”s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) diktat of creating unrest in Jammu and Kashmir lately, terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin reportedly faced the ire of his masters when he was attacked by unknown assailants in Islamabad on May 25.
Sources in the intelligence agencies said that Mohammad Yusuf Shah alias Syed Salahuddin, who also heads the alliance of pro-Pakistan terrorist groups called the United Jihad Council, was “grievously injured in the attack and is undergoing treatment”.
Salahuddin has been declared a global terrorist by the US State Department.
“He was targeted near the Hizbul Mujahideen compound in Islamabad on May 25,” said a top intelligence agency officer. The attack was reportedly planned and executed by the ISI. It was not meant to kill Salahuddin, but to send a message to him and the members of his terror outfit that they were gradually becoming redundant.
The difference between Salahuddin and his ISI handler started ever since the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir in August last year.
Intelligence sources said that since Salahuddin or his outfit were clueless about the Indian Government’s move to abrogate Article 370, which granted special status to the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir, the ISI had gradually started withdrawing its support to the Hizbul Mujahideen.
Salahuddin was heard saying in a gathering in Rawalpindi to mourn the killing of Naikoo that even after the killing of five security personnel, Indian security forces continued to be in a position of strength.(Agencies)
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