Majid Jahangir, Srinagar
Authorities on Thursday put all top separatist leaders under house arrest in Kashmir.
Leaders including Syed Ali Shah Gilani, Shabir Ahmad Shah, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yaseen Malik have been placed under house arrest.
Hurriyat( G) spokesman, Ayaz Akbar told www.jantakareporter.com,” Heavy contingent of forces have been deployed around our Hyderpora office/residence and we are not allowed to move here and there..We fail to understand why government took this step. All our senior leaders of amalgam are under house arrest.”
All Jammu and Kashmir Hurriyat Conference chairman, Shabir Ahamd Shad also confirmed that he had been put under house arrest,
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq’s political advisor Shaid ul Islam said that police also raided the houses of seven leaders of Mirwaiz group .
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Yasin Malik told www.jantakareporter.com over phone:” My house was raided by the police.I have been taken to Kothibagh police station. My other colleagues’ houses too were raided in the early hours of Thursday.”
The house arrests of Kashmiri separatist leaders have come ahead of NSA- level talks between India and Pakistan scheduled for 23. August in New Delhi.
Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi had invited Kashmiri separatist leaders to New Delhi on the day of NSA-level talks.
