US blacklisted him as a "global terrorist". "We are not terrorists ... Our struggle is for freedom from India and it will continue till liberation of Kashmir," said the 71-year-old Kashmiri separatist leader who is based in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. "The US cannot provide a single example of when I and other Kashmiri fighters committed any act of terrorism," he said. "Kashmiri freedom fighters have a code of conduct to not harm minorities, the elderly, children and women, and if sometimes the enemy offers a peace deal, we accept it. "The US took the step against Salahuddin, whose original name is Mohammed Yusuf Shah, as he had "vowed to block any peaceful resolution to the Kashmir conflict, threatened to train more Kashmiri suicide bombers, and vowed to turn the Kashmir Valley into a graveyard for Indian forces".

Source: Times of India July 01, 2017 15:10 UTC