Janjivan Bureau
Shrinagar: House arrested Kashmiri separatist leaders were released just hours after they were placed under house arrest by authorities in Srinagar.Indicating a confused response to their proposed meeting with Pakistan’s national security adviser Sartaj Aziz.
Police sources told that the steps were taken to prevent the separatists from going to Delhi to meet Sartaj Aziz. The restrictions were however lifted after two hours.
India fails the game play of Pakistan and just three days before the Pakistan NSA’s visit to India for talks separatist leaders Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Yasin Malik and Moulvi Abbas Ansari were put under house arrest.
Pakistan invited the Kashmiri separatist leaders to meet its national security advisor (NSA) Sartaj Aziz when he visits India.
Stop gates were put up and police personnel deployed outside their house in the morning. The separatist leaders were also in informed that they should not step outside their houses.
The steps were taken to prevent them from going to Delhi to meet Sartaj Aziz, police sources told Hindustan Times on condition of anonymity.
National security advisor Ajit Doval is meeting Sartaj Aziz on Sunday in New Delhi for talks on countering terror.
In a provocative act the Pakistan high commission had on Wednesday called hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani for a meeting with Aziz and invited moderate separatist Kashmiri leaders including its chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq for a reception on August 23.
India immediately warned against such a meeting, saying “appropriate action will be taken.
Last July, India called off talks with Pakistan because Kashmiri separatists were invited before a meeting of foreign secretaries.
Slamming the flipflop over the arrests former chief minister Omar Abdullah tweeted, “Why? No absence of coordination – centre say arrest so arrested, centre says release so released.Perfect coordination.”
Abdullah hit out at his successor Mufti Mohammed Sayeed and the Centre with a vengeance, even accusing the governments of India and Pakistan of trying to sabotage the NSA talks on August 23-24.
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