J&K separatist’s daughter distances herself from father’s ideology

SAMA Shabir, the daughter of jailed separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah, on Thursday distanced herself from her father’s ideology and declared allegiance to India as a citizen of the country.

Through a public notice published in a local newspaper, 23-year-old Sama Shabir called herself a loyal citizen of India as she distanced herself from her father’s Democratic Freedom Party and its ideology.

In the notice, she said, “I am a loyal citizen of India and I am not affiliated to any person or organization which is against the sovereignty of the Union of India."

Shabir Shah is presently lodged in jail in connection with a money laundering case related to terror funding in Kashmir.