Hardline Separatist of Kashmir Entrust Entire Assets to Benevolent Trust

5 Dariya News (Yawar Shafi)

Srinagar 18-Jan-2014

The Octogenarian Leader of Kashmir Syed Ali Shah Geelani Saturday announced to transfer his immovable property including his house in Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital, Srinagar, to an independent trust which was formed recently.In an unprecedented decision, Kashmir’s ailing separatist patriarch, Syed Ali Geelani on Saturday announced transfer of his entire immovable property to an autonomous and independent trust. The property including Geelani’s official Hyderpora residence, Tehreek-i-Hurriyat head office building and Millat Publications.“It has remained a tragedy of Kashmir that its leaders have not been held accountable and nobody has raised fingers over their conduct,” Geelani said in a statement. “But I want my person and my party to stay transparent in our dealings with thesociety.”“The trust has been given the rights to use the property to carry forward the 'holy mission' of my party and the property can’t be used for personal use or benefit,” he said. He said: I have tried to remain steadfast on truth and road to freedom. "I ask Allah for forgiveness if I may have floundered," the 84-year-old leader, who seeks solution to Kashmir dispute through the United Nations resolutions, said.The Trust, already registered, comprises of eight (8) people who have been authorized to use the said property for the purposes Tehreek-i-Hurriyat was constituted for. “Nobody has any claims to anything in these properties,” the statement asserted.The names of the trustees however have not been made public.