Zargar back in Kashmir

ISLAMABAD, JAN. 24. Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar, one of the three militants freed in exchange for the hijacked Indian Airlines passengers last month has returned to Kashmir to join the insurgency, his outfit said today.

Zargar, chief of the al Umar Mujahideen outfit, has returned to Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, the group's Urdu-language statement said.

The prominent of the three freed militants, Masood Azhar, a Pakistani national, returned to Pakistan soon after the hijacking ended. At that time, Azhar had said all three freed militants had crossed into Pakistan.

The whereabouts of the third militant, Ahmed Omar Sayed Sheikh, a Pakistan-born British national, is not known.

``Kashmir is a disputed issue and Mujahideen will continue their struggle until the Kashmiri people are given their right of self- determination,'' the statement quoted Zargar as saying.

- AP

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