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Liaqat’s wife reaches Dardpora

KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 3/24/2013 2:38:35 AM

SRINAGAR, Mar 23: The wife of Liaqat Shah, arrested by Delhi police, reached Dardpora-Kupwara today.
Delhi police claims that Liaqat intended to carry out fidayeen attacks in Delhi with other militants. However, the claim has been refuted by the arrested man’s family and local police, who said that he was returning home from PAK to surrender as part of the state government’s rehabilitation programme.
Liaqat’s wife, Akhtar Banoo, today said that her husband has been falsely implicated as a militant.
Talking to a local news agency, KNS, she accused the authorities at Gorakhpur checkpoint of harassing the family. “I, my husband and my 18 year old daughter, had left Islamabad for Nepal where from we were returning through Gorakhpur under the rehabilitation scheme as we had already applied for that. However, the officials in civvies took away my husband after thoroughly checking our belongings. They treated us very badly despite our repeated pleas that we had come here to live a normal life,” Akhtar said.
She said she had traveled to Pakistan on valid passport in 2001. “My first husband died in 1995 in an encounter and later I went to Pakistan on a valid passport in 2001. Later, I married Liaqat in 2006,” she said and added that her daughter, 18 year old Jabeena, was born from the slain husband.
Akhtar stated that she and her daughter reached Jammu in a train and later arrived in Srinagar by road.
Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir police today confirmed that Liaqat Shah had applied under the rehabilitation scheme announced by the state government for militants willing to give up gun to lead a normal life. “Yes he had applied under form No 74 under the rehabilitation scheme,” Deputy Superintendent of Police (HQ), Sajjad Khaliq Bhat told KNS.