Senior separatist leader and chairman of the Democratic Freedom Party Shabir Ahmad Shah was released by the state government in Jammu on Wednesday where he had been under detention for the last ten months.Shah was arrested in February this year while leading protests against the killing of two students and later booked under the stringent Public Safety Act.The state government had in September released Shabir Shah on parole, with strict conditions attached to it.
Senior separatist leader and chairman of the Democratic Freedom Party Shabir Ahmad Shah was released by the Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday, where he had been held in detention for the past 10 months.
Senior separatist leaders Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Shabir Ahmad Shah were placed under house arrest as the funeral of a youth, found dead under mysterious circumstances in New Delhi, was carried out amidst tight security in Srinagar on Thursday.
A senior separatist leader stated that Kashmiri separatists were 'not shying away from dialogue with centre but wanted conditions to be created for meaningful talks'. Addressing a media conference, Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) chairman Shabir Ahmad Shah said that 'conducive condition were to be created for a purposeful dialogue for the resolution of the Kashmir issue'.
Shops, business and educational institutions in the Kashmir valley remained closed, official sources said.
Three Hurriyat Conference leaders were taken into custody, as police foiled the separatists plan to march in connection with Martyrs day on Monday.
Seven members of the moderate All Parties Hurriyat Conference general council have quit the conglomerate over differences with the top leadership on "restoration of the Hurriyat constitution".
