Seven Kashmiri separatists arrested on terrorism funding charges

Seven separatists from the Kashmir region have been arrested by Indian authorities on charges of funding terrorism.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is investigation if funds from Pakistan were used to fuel last year’s unrest in the Kashmir Valley that left 100 people, most of them civilians, dead.

Over the past few weeks the NIA raided properties across Kashmir, Delhi and Haryana, looking for evidence of separatist leaders and businessmen receiving funds from Hafiz Saeed, who heads the Jamaat-ud-Dawa group, and other Pakistan-based militant outfits.

Two of the accused were arrested in Delhi while the others were taken into custody in Srinagar.