Yasin Malik Drops Explosive Affidavit: Claims IB, PMs and NSA Backed His Pakistan Links, Says ‘State Betrayed After Article 370’

New Delhi: Jailed Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Mohammad Yasin Malik has set off shockwaves with an affidavit before the Delhi High Court, alleging that his ties with Pakistan and multiple backchannel dialogues were not his own initiative, but sanctioned and facilitated by India’s Intelligence Bureau (IB) and successive governments at the highest level.

Currently lodged in Tihar Jail, Malik claimed he was courted by Prime Ministers, intelligence chiefs, National Security Advisers, powerful politicians, and even industrialists, who urged him to abandon militancy and embrace democratic politics. He alleged that this “state-sponsored engagement” ran uninterrupted for 25 years until the revocation of Article 370, when the government turned on him, reopening decades-old cases and branding him a terrorist.

Recalling events of the early 1990s, Malik said he was moved from Mehrauli sub-jail to a bungalow in Delhi’s Maharani Bagh, where then Home Minister Rajesh Pilot, IAS officer Wajahat Habibullah, and senior IB officials pressed him to surrender arms. He alleged that it was Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao who gave the order to bring him into democratic politics, leading to his 1994 release and his announcement of a unilateral ceasefire in Srinagar. “The government followed through by granting bail in all 32 pending TADA cases. For 25 years, no case was pursued,” Malik stated.

The jailed separatist listed his wide-ranging contacts: NSA Brajesh Mishra, IB Director Shyamal Dutta, Congress stalwarts like Manmohan Singh and Najma Heptullah, and even industrialist Dhirubhai Ambani—whom he claimed he once spoke to at Vajpayee aide R.K. Mishra’s behest. “Dr Manmohan Singh once told me, ‘I consider you the father of the non-violent movement in Kashmir,’” Malik asserted.

Malik also alleged his foreign travels—including meetings with US Assistant Secretary of State Christina Rocca and a White House briefing—were coordinated by Indian authorities, using passports issued under Vajpayee’s government.

Perhaps most sensationally, he claimed that his meeting with Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed, one of the charges in his conviction, was not a rogue move but arranged by IB Special Director V.K. Joshi as part of backchannel peace efforts under Manmohan Singh. “I debriefed Prime Minister Singh and NSA M.K. Narayanan after the meeting, and they expressed gratitude,” Malik said, accusing investigators of later twisting the event “out of context.”

He further alleged that IB Director Nehchal Sandhu himself created the Gmail ID parvezahmed1951@gmail.com
to facilitate sensitive Track II talks with a Pakistani handler, Parvaiz Ahmed. Malik claimed he urged his trial judge to verify this with NIA lawyers but the evidence was instead weaponised against him.

According to Malik, the ceasefire understanding was honoured through five prime ministers—Rao, Vajpayee, Gujral, Manmohan Singh, and Modi’s first term. But post the abrogation of Article 370, the government abandoned the pact, reopened TADA cases, and launched a crackdown. “The Indian state gave me a promise that my cases would never be pursued. That promise was honoured for 25 years. But after August 2019, everything changed,” Malik said.