Express News Service
KOCHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) team, which arrested KA Rauf Sherif, the national general secretary of Campus Front of India (CFI), the student’s wing of Popular Front of India (PFI), on charges of money laundering, will examine several activists of the two organisations including Malappuram-based journalist Siddique Kappan, according to investigators.
It was found that Rauf funded the trip by PFI activists along with journalist Siddique Kappan to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh, where a shocking rape and murder had happened, with an intention to disturb social harmony and incite communal riots. The investigation is in the preliminary stage and a large number of accused involved are to be examined, said sources.
Nangarhar, the large Afghan province where Maiwand lived and worked, has reeled from violence. In recent years, thousands have died and hundreds of thousands have been displaced by attacks and infighting between the Taliban and IS militants in the eastern region bordering Pakistan. The province has also been the scene of large-scale militant operations by Afghan and international troops.
After growing up in the post-Taliban Afghanistan, Maiwand opposed the return of the group’s hard-line regime and occasionally aired her fears about life under a future government following a peace deal between the Taliban and the Afghan government.
In brief comments to Radio Free Afghanistan ahead of the landmark agreement between the Taliban and the United States in February, she termed the harsh regime in the 1990s as a “dark age” for Afghan women. She said Afghans are likely to welcome the Taliban if they follow in Hizb-e Islami’s footsteps of joining the political system after a deal wi