Last week, AMU authorities suspended three Kashmiri students who tried to hold funeral prayers for Wani inside the university campus

New Delhi: Lashkar-e-Taiba commander-in-chief and mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in 2008, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, was on Friday seen eulogising slain Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Mannan Wani in Pakistan.

In the video accessed by Times Now, Saeed is seen convening a prayer service allegedly for Wani, a PhD scholar-turned-terrorist from India-occupied-Kashmir. Wani, who had joined the militant ranks in January, was killed during a gunfight with Indian security forces on October 11 in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district. Wani (27) was pursuing a PhD course in Allied Geology at the Aligarh Muslim University when he left the university and joined militant ranks.

Last week, AMU authorities suspended three Kashmiri students who tried to hold funeral prayers for Wani inside the university campus. The trio was booked on sedition charges for allegedly raising “anti-India” slogans on October 12.

In response, 1,200 Kashmiri students studying at the AMU wrote a letter to the authorities, threatening to give up the various courses they are pursuing and leave for their homes if the university does not drop the charges against the suspended students by Wednesday. Earlier on Monday, students at Kashmir University staged a silent march to show solidarity with AMU students facing sedition charges.

Calling Wani a martyr, separatist leader and founder of All Parties Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq appealed to the people of the valley to observe a complete shutdown today to pay homage to him.