Chairman of the breakaway Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Shah Geelani was Friday taken into preventive custody near his Rawalpora residence.
The dialogue with Malik will be the prime minister's second meeting with a separatist group outside the Hurriyat Conference fold.
Denying any ambition of capturing power, Geelani said, "I am neither struggling for power, nor for any office. I want to see my nation free. If I die in the struggle it is my fortune," he said.
Chairman of the breakaway Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Shah Geelani was again put under house arrest on Thursday to prevent him from taking part in the Friday congregation at the holy Hazratbal shrine.Geelani had given a 'Hazratbal chalo' call to offer special prayers for the 'victory' in the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board forest land issue. A spokesman of the HC, Aiyaz Akbar, told UNI that a large number of police personnel were deployed outside his residence.
He said India was "scared" of taking any bold initiative while Pakistan had shown "great flexibility" vis-a-vis the resolution of the vexed Kashmir issue.
Six senior separatist leaders, including hardline Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Geelani and Shabir Ahmad Shah, were on Friday put under house arrest.
Geelani was operated at Tata Memorial Hospital on Monday and the doctors had successfully removed the malignant tumour from his only surviving kidney.
India and Pakistan look to take the peace process to the next level.
Sayeed, Abdullah and Bhat appeared together at the centenary celebrations of S P College where they studied 50 years ago.
A joint contingent of police and paramilitary forces laid a cordon around Geelani's Hyderpora house early in the morning.
A spokesman for the HC Aiyaz Akbar told UNI that a large number of Jammu and Kashmir police personnel had been deployed outside Geelani's residence in Hyderpora locality of the state since early Saturday morning.
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the breakaway HC has given a general strike call on Friday in protest against the court's order.
An NIA court on Thursday convicted Jammu and Kashmir separatist leader Yasin Malik after he pleaded guilty to all the charges, including those under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, before the court in a case related to alleged terrorism and secessionist activities that disturbed the Kashmir Valley in 2017.
He said the state had suffered heavily on all fronts due to militancy.
President Kalam is scheduled to attend the diamond jubilee celebrations of the high court no Saturday.
A report from Baramulla said a complete shutdown was observed in all major towns in north Kashmir in support of \nthe strike call
Geelani, who was scheduled to address a Friday congregation at Rajouri town and Thanamandi, was arrested at Chingus, 90 km from Jammu.
The Hurriyat leaders are the real representatives of the Kashmiri people and India will have to accede to this fact, the foreign office spokesman said.
They will be here on an invitation of SAFMA's Indian Chapter.
Geelani was to visit the residence of four youths on Thursday to express sympathy and solidarity with them.
The separatist leader was scheduled to attend the funeral prayers of militant commander Manzoor-ul-Islam, who was killed in an encounter with security forces on Wednesday night, his spokesman said.
The new civilian government in Pakistan has to take the Army on board before implementing its ideas on the Kashmir issue, Hurriyat Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said.
Pakistan was always sincere in resolving the Kashmir issue, but India had to give up its 'stubbornness', a Pakistan minister said.
The CCS also discussed the Nuclear Confidence Building Measures with Pakistan.
The JeI (J&K) also has several trusts for running schools to disseminate orthodox Islamic education, has a youth wing and has numerous publications for spreading its fundamentalist ideology.
Vohra, whose efforts had resulted in two rounds of talks between the All Parties Hurriyat Conference and former deputy prime minister L K Advani, quit the post citing that his appointment had been made by the previous government
In conversation with All-Party Hurriyat Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq.
The decision to free the prisoners was taken by the Joint Screening Committee comprising officials of the state and the Centre.
Mirwaiz will be in New York for the Organisation of Islamic Conference general council meeting and Musharraf would be there to attend the United Nations General Assembly meeting.
A joint committee set up by Jammu and Kashmir and the central government recommended the revocation.
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