India, Sept. 19 -- In an affidavit submitted to the Delhi high court, Kashmiri separatist Yasin Malik has claimed he met former prime minister Manmohan Singh, who had expressed his gratitude for the time and efforts for meeting Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed in Pakistan.

Yasin Malik, the then commander-in-chief of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Force Yasin Malik, claimed to have met LeT terrorist in 2006, according to the affidavit cited in an earlier HT report.

The affidavit, which contains these revelations and was submitted by Malik in the Delhi high court on August 25, carries details of his apparent meetings with former prime ministers, Union ministers, foreign diplomats, top Intelligence Bureau (IB) officials, and others ...