Kashmiri separatist Aasiya Andrabi, who was brought to the Delhi headquarters of the National Investigation Agency, has been undergoing questioning, investigators said. The 56-year-old chief of the banned Dukhtaran-E-Milat (daughters of the nation) has been lodged in the NIA lock-up. Every few hours, a new set of women interrogators arrive to quiz her on her association with Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed and why she always takes such hardline position against India.
Aasiya Andrabi - accused of being a key motivator of the students' protests in Kashmir valley following the death of Burhan Wani in 2016 - was arrested in April. She was brought to Delhi from a Srinagar jail for questioning after the agency got her custody for 10 days on Friday.
A scrutiny of Aasiya Andrabi's Twitter handle reveals that many Lashkar operatives are her followers. "Some of them are active terrorists based in Kashmir Valley and some even in Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir," an officer said.
The NIA dossier on her reads: "By their activities on cyberspace, they were running a concerted campaign to solicit support of Pakistani establishment which inter-alia includes arranging support from militant entities from Pakistan."
In October last year, she even ended up on a government poster featuring 12 women achievers, alongside then Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti. The red-faced government took action against the official involved and declared that it "totally disassociated" itself from the poster.
Aasiya Andrabi's sons are abroad, studying. Her elder son is doing MTech in Melbourne and the younger son is a student at an Islamic university in Malaysia.
Cases registered against Aasiya Andrabi include hoisting Pakistani flags every year to mark Pakistan Day and Independence Day of the country on August 14.
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