The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday arrested Zahoor Wattali, a prominent Kashmiri businessman and a close aide of separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, on charges of funding terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir.
Wattali was arrested from Srinagar, a day after the NIA searched multiple locations in the Kashmir Valley, including the businessman's office and houses of his close relatives.
--IANS
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