Terror Convict Yasin Malik Says Manmohan Singh Thanked Him For Meeting Hafiz Saeed: Report

In an explosive claim, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) terrorist Yasin Malik said that former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh personally thanked and expressed gratitude to him after he met Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed in Pakistan in 2006.

Yasin Malik is serving a life sentence in a terror funding case. According to a report in NDTV, Malik in an affidavit submitted in the Delhi High Court on August 25, has claimed that the meeting in 2006 was held at the request of senior Indian intelligence officials as part of the backchannel peace process with Pakistan.

What Yasin Malik claimed about India’s Intelligence Bureau?

According to Malik, then Special Director of Intelligence Bureau (IB), VK Joshi, met him in Delhi before his visit to Pakistan and allegedly requested Malik to use the opportunity to engage not just with the Pakistani political leadership but also with terrorist figures, including Saeed, to support then Prime Minister Singh’s peace efforts as dialogue with Pakistan could not be meaningful unless terrorist leaders were also brought into the conversation.