Srinagar, Feb 25: The Anjuman Nusratul Islam today denied receiving foreign funds and alleged the ban on the organisation was a conspiracy hatched by Hindu fundamentalists to attack the "Muslim identity" of Jammu and Kashmir. "We do not and have never received any foreign funding. Our financial expenditures are met from donations made by people of Jammu and Kashmir," Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, member of the Hurriyat Conference executive committee and president of ANI (Anjuman Nusratul Islam) told reporters here. He said the ban on the activities of the organisation is a conspiracy hatched by hindu fundamentalists to attack the Islamic institutions and thereby the Muslim identity of Jammu and Kashmir. Mirwaiz said the ANI, a 104-year old organisation, was a purely educational and social organisation, engaged in educating the people of the state and working towards the upliftment of the downtrodden. ANI had never applied for any license for receiving foreign funding, he added.
The Hurriyat leader said it seemed that the ban was just a part of targeting the separatist leadership in the backdrop of his passport being suspended, the closure of Delhi office of the Hurriyat and detention of several leaders in false cases.
Mirwaiz said if the ANI had been receiving any foreign funding, then its dream project of setting up an Islamic university would have been realised long ago.
These allegations are just an attempt to drag the people of the state into the dark ages from where the ANI had strived to bring them out, he added.

Bureau Report