TNI Bureau: While the tension between India and Pakistan has intensified along with the LoC and on a day when a 70-year-old Sarpanch was killed in Kashmir today, Tehelka has revealed that a delegation of Hurriyat leaders had met terror masterminds Hafeex Saeed and Syed Salahuddin in Pakistan in December 2012.

Tehelka has further revealed that the delegation was told by Saeed and Salahuddin that militancy in Kashmir would be revived after the US-led troops depart from Afghanistan by 2014.

The Hurriyat leaders, who travelled to Pakistan on Indian passports, had met Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf , Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and then these terror masterminds in Islamabad. They also met ISI Chief Lt Gen Zahir ul Islam.

The delegation of the separatist leaders that visited Pakistan on December 16-28, 2012, included Abdul Gani Bhat, Bilal Gani Lone, Maulana Abbas Ansari, Aga Syed Al-Hassan, Musadiq Adil and Mukhtar Ahmad Waza.