Hizb, Salah-ud-Din’s son deny Dulat’s allegation

The militant group Hizbul Mujahideen and Syed Abdul Wahid son of Hizb’s chief Syed Salah-ud-Din  have strongly denied former RAW chief A S Dulat’s allegation that Wahid got MBBS seat after his father talked to IB chief of Kashmir.

Reacting to the allegations, Hizbul Mujahideen said UJC Syed Salah-ud-din’s son was accorded the MBBS seat purely on the basis of merit.

In an emailed statement, Hizb spokesman Saleem Hashmi termed Dulat’s remarks as a ‘blatant lie’. “There is not even an iota of what former RAW chief has said is true. Son of UJC chief appeared in the entrance examination and qualified the test. He was given the seat on merit basis,” he said.

He maintained that Salah-ud-din has no links either with any government or non- government organisation nor he had any contact with any spy agency.

“Such remarks made by Dulat are aimed to weaken Kashmir’s freedom movement and create malicious campaign against the separatist leadership. Intelligence agencies can go to any extent of defaming Kashmir’s resistance movement,” Hashmi said.

Meanwhile, Syed Abdul Wahid son of Hizbul-Mujahideen chief Syed Salahudin termed Dulat’s allegations as distortion of true story, floated to malign the image of my father.

“Either Dulat is ill informed, or he has run out of his mind for he has mouthed total rubbish,” he said in a statement.

Wahid said in the first place, it was not the selection, but migration from Jammu to Srinagar which was facilitated by the government.

And please know what were the compulsions for me to migrate to Srinagar? I was selected through CET for MBBS at rank 92 in 2000 purely on the basis of merit, hard work and dedication (which can be checked from the CET records). I got admitted in Jammu College, and being from a family with militant background, I had security apprehensions at Jammu. My fears came true as I continued there for nearly 2 months, and I was frequented by men from ‘security or IB agencies’ sometimes carrying pistols too. On the pretext of security investigations, the threat and harassment continued to the extent that I was forced to abandon the classes and lab work,” he said.

He said his family was worried and approached BOPEE authorities for migration but they pretended helplessness.

“The court said the migration was against rules. As a last resort, I decided to abdicate the hard earned seat, and attempt in CET again next year. However my family approached the then government for help, and sensing the political delicacy and scoring a point, they did help me in migration in exchange of other Jammuite student. The order copy of which, signed by chief secretary lies with the principals of two colleges, BOPEE chairman and myself. Omar Abdullah himself has once acknowledged these facts on a news channel. The favor was done by the government because of security concerns,” Walid clarified.

He said there is not even an iota of truth in these allegations that my father called on J&K government for something like medical seat.

“Everybody knows his credentials. We are five siblings. Except my eldest brother, who is employed since pre-militancy time, none of us is in permanent job. Two are doing contractual jobs for over 10 years, including one as Rehbar-e-Ziraat with M.Sc. in Agriculture. If Dulat thought that Syed Salahuddin could be lured in return of favors, then the story of our family would have been different, or we could have made fortunes in Nineties. But my father’s steadfastness and sacrifices in the field and unflinching commitment to the cause is known to everyone. And Dulat must know that such unfounded statements cannot tarnish the image of my father,” added Wahid. (KNS)