Kashmiri separatist leaser Shabbir Shah, who was taken under house arrest on Thursday and released on the same day, was again put under detention in New Delhi.
Although Kashmiri separatists leaders put on house arrest were released on Thursday, Hurriyat Chairman Syed Ali Shah continues to be under detention.
In a press note released on Friday on their official Facebook page, All Parties Hurriyat Conference said, "Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Geelani continued to remain under house arrest today and he was again forcibly stopped from offering the Friday congregational prayers by the police and he was not allowed to come out of his house."
Top Kashmiri separatist leaders, including Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, were on Thursday put under house arrest. Security personnel were deployed outside the Hydrepora residence of Geelani.
The separatist leaders were invited by the Pakistan High Commission to meet Pakistan's Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz on August 23. India had cancelled Foreign Secretary-level talks with Pakistan in August last year after its envoy invited separatist leaders for consultations ahead of the meeting in Islamabad.
As soon as separatist leader Shabbir Shah deplaned in New Delhi, central security agencies along with Delhi Police asked him about the place where he would be staying in Delhi and later drove him there. The separatist leaders were told that "restrictions have been imposed on their movement in the national capital" ahead of talks between Aziz and his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval, official sources said. Shah along with two other separatist leaders Mohammed Abdullah Tari and Zamir Ahmed Sheikh will stay in a south Delhi guest house and the trio will remain confined to that place only. Shah, who parted ways with moderate faction of Hurriyat Conference last year and formed a separate unit, was placed under house arrest yesterday and not allowed to go for Friday prayers.
While India advised Pakistan on Friday not to go ahead with its meeting with the separatists, Pakistan said that it won't accept India's advice .
"Responding to the Government of India's advice, conveyed by their High Commissioner that Sartaj Aziz may not meet Hurriyat leaders during his visit to India, Foreign Secretary conveyed to the Indian High Commissioner that it would not be possible for Pakistan to accept this advice. Pakistani leadership has always interacted with the Kashmir/Hurriyat leadership, during their visits to India. Pakistan sees no reason to depart from this established past practice," Pak MoFA said.
"The Hurriyat leaders are true representatives of the Kashmiri people of the Indian occupied Kashmir. Pakistan regards them (Hurriyat leaders) as genuine stakeholders in the efforts to find a lasting solution of the Kashmir Dispute. Pakistan has proposed and conveyed to India a comprehensive agenda reflecting broad understanding reached between the leaders in Ufa, that all outstanding issues, including Kashmir, other disputes, terrorism and other CBMs will be discussed between the two countries," MoFA added.
Addressing a press conference on Saturday, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj gave an ultimatum to Pakistan and said that if Pakistan chooses to go ahead with the meeting, then the talks will be called off. She gave Pakistan time till midnight to decide.
Here is the press note released by All Parties Hurriyat Conference.
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