New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) IT cell chief Amit Malviya has described as "shocking" the claim by Yasin Malik, the then chief of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Force (JKLF) that former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had thanked Malik for having met with the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed in Pakistan in 2006.

In an affidavit submitted to the Delhi high court, Malik, who is currently in Tihar Jail, said that after his meeting with Hafiz Saeed he had personally briefed PM Manmohan Singh and National Security Advisor MK Narayanan.

Sharing an X post, Amit Malviya called the development "shocking" and claimed that PM Manmohan Singh had expressed gratitude towards the terror-funding convict. Malviya questioned the U...