Police did not kill Aziz, he was shot in the back: NSA

National Security Advisor M K Narayanan has said the police were not involved in the killing of Hurriyat leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz.

National Security Advisor M K Narayanan has said the police were not involved in the killing of Hurriyat leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz. Appearing on Karan Thapar’s Devil’s Advocate programme on CNN-IBN, he said Aziz was shot in the back while the police were in the front during the Hurriyat-led ‘march to Muzaffarabad’ on August 11.

When asked whether the Hurriyat knows that the police did not kill him, he said, “They will never admit it I suppose, but the fact of the matter is that it was certainly not the police. He was shot in the back.”

He said there was “concern” among the Hurriyat after the killing of the leader as they also probably knew the police was not behind it. “This is a concern even among the Hurriyat and others saying that who is now amongst us who is trying to eliminate some of us,” Narayanan said.

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Asked who could be behind the killing, he refused to answer, saying, “You will know at the right time, I presume and assure, of who it is or which group is responsible.”

NSA sticks to NSG stand

NSA M K Narayanan also reiterated that India would not accept the waiver from NSG, if the “red lines” set by it are crossed.

• On inclusion of testing clause: “We have always made the point that testing is a word that we find difficult to adjust not because of anything else but because that is what Parliament has mandated us to do.”

• On periodic review: “It is uncalled for, we do not understand the need for the review mechanism. The agreement involves people investing money, countries investing money, they are putting money for 30 to 40 years so if you have a review at the end of three years and somebody says this shouldn’t be done then nobody is going to invest in this agreement.”

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• On denial of enrichment and reprocessing technology: “NSG does not have ban on enrichment and reprocessing technology transfer per se…we don’t want some countries’ individual predilections to be performing part of huge package of items in the NSG.”