ISLAMABAD: Terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin on Saturday vowed to continue the struggle for "liberation" of Kashmir from India, days after the US blacklisted him as a "global terrorist".
Addressing the media amid tight security at the Centre Press Club in Muzaffarabad for the first time since the US declared him a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" on June 27, Salahuddin rejected the US decision and said he was a "freedom fighter" and not a 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.