Kashmir:
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) has denied its involvement in the murder of Kashmiri journalist Syed Shujaat Bukhari and accused the Indian media of spreading misinformation on the gory incident.
The LeT chief Mahmood Shah in a statement issued through its spokesman Dr Abdullah Ghaznavi on Monday said that it was nothing but a “blatant lie” to say that the outfit’s commander Muhammad Naveed Jutt alias Abu Hanzala was among the three assailants who gunned down Shujaat Bukhari outside his office in Srinagar’s media hub Mushtaq Press Enclave on the evening of June 14.
Mahmood Shah alleged, “India media endorses its agencies and that is the reason it strives to hide their vicious activities.”
Reacting to BJP leader and former minister Choudhary Lal Singh’s warning Kashmiri journalists of meeting the fate their colleague Shujaat Bukhari did if they fail to “draw a line of journalism and think about how to live”, the LeT chief said: “if Kashmiris start threatening the likes of Lal Singh, then they will get sleepless nights”.