NEW DELHI: Aasiya Andrabi, leader of Kashmir-based all-women outfit Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DEM), was collecting funds through social media to incite people of the Valley for an armed rebellion against the country with the help of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief Hafiz Saeed, claimed a charge sheet filed by NIA on Wednesday. 

The anti-terror investigation agency has charged Andrabi and her two associates — Sofi Fehmeeda and Naheeda Nasreen — under the anti-terror law, Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). 

The 56-year-old separatist leader had disclosed before the investigators, as reported by TOI on August 3, that she was in regular touch with former PM of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif, his former foreign policy advisor Sartaz Aziz, Pak high commission officials in Delhi and former ISI chief Hamid Gul besides Hafiz Saeed and Hizbul chief Syed Salahuddin.

In a letter sent to Nawaz Sharif, Aasiya said “Pakistan is not doing anything for Kashmir”, to which Sharif replied saying, “we are doing our best”.

NIA stated in its chargesheet that Aasiya-led DEM is a terrorist organisation engaged in anti-India activities and has been inciting the general populace of Kashmir for an armed rebellion against the country with aid and assistance of Pak-based terror outfits.

Aasiya, NIA says, was using various media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and TV channels including those in Pakistan to spread hateful messages and speeches against India. “DEM through Aasiya Andrabi and others, openly advocates secession of Jammu & Kashmir from the Union of India and its merger with Pakistan through violent means,” NIA adds.

She was arrested by NIA on July 6 this year. “Investigation has also established that she has close contacts with designated global terrorist Hafiz Saeed who is head of Jamaat-Ud-Dawah (JuD) and LeT, internationally designated terrorist organisations that are based in Pakistan. She has used public platforms to incite youth of Kashmir to rise in armed insurrection against India,” NIA says.