Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed said the release of the detainees had nothing to do with the talks between the All Parties Hurriyat Conference and Deputy Prime Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani on Thursday in New Delhi.
14 places in Kashmir and eight places in the national capital were raided by the NIA.
'I am a misunderstood person in Pakistan,' L K Advani tells Hamid Mir.
The J&K chief minister said it is the 'happiest day' for him since coming to power last year, as the demand of the Kashmiri people for talks at the highest level has been fulfilled.
While shops and business establishments remained closed for the ninth day as traders are on an indefinite strike against the implementation of value added tax, all modes of transport went off the roads on Thursday, the sources said.
They want to gauge public opinion on the recent Indo-Pakistan peace talks.
'America and Britain want a greater role in sorting out the Kashmir problem which they liken to the Palestine problem,' says Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, former chairman of the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference.
"There is [a] strong difference of opinion with Geelani. If he cooperates and removes this difference it would be fine. Otherwise, he will slowly be isolated."
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday called Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's announcement to reduce troops in Jammu and Kashmir 'hasty'.
The 45-year-old separatist leader has been booked under the harsh law for waving Pakistani flag and chanting anti-India slogans at a rally in Sringar.
The separatist leader is suspected to have cancer of the kidney according to family sources.
The team of Pakistani journalists called on separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party Monday described the meeting between the foreign policy adviser to Pakistani Prime Minister Sartaj Aziz and the separatist All Parties Hurriyat Conference leaders as a 'welcome revival of the process initiated by the National Democratic Alliance government' and said that 'it should be carried forward in all its dimensions'.
A unanimous statement of the delegation appealed to the people of the state to shun the path of violence and resolve all the issues through dialogue and discussion.
The Hurriyat chairman said a final decision would be taken only after a formal invitation from the Centre and consultations within the separatist amalgam.
Mirwaiz Umer Farooq on the talks between the prime minister and the Hurriyat Conference.
Geelani also condemned Pakistan government for accepting moderates as representatives of the Kashmiris.
'We are looking at a solution that will maintain the dignity of the Government of India, the government of Pakistan and the people of Jammu and Kashmir,' says Hurriyat Chairman Moulvi Ansari.
Chairman of the hard line faction of the Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Shah Geelani, on Tuesday, called for a Kashmir bandh on Wednesday to protest the killing of three boys by the army.
"I got the invitation from the Pakistan High Commission on Tuesday," Geelani said.
A JKLF spokesman said the Kashmir issue was discussed at the meeting, but did not spell out the details.
'They want us to talk to Shivraj Patil. Vajpayee had appointed Advani for holding talks with us. Advani had a certain standing,' says Hurriyat leader Moulvi Abbas Ansari.
The deputy prime minister said the Centre was willing to hold talks with 'any group, which will lay down arms and shun the path of violence'.
The Hurriyat leader is suffering from suspected malignancy of kidney.
Hardline Hurriyat Conference Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani has stoked a controversy by paying tributes to 2 militants who were killed in an encounter in Tral area of Kashmir, in which an army commander and a policeman died.
On the recent spurt in militant attacks, Jaiswal said these were manifestations of their "desperation and frustration" as they did not want peace to return but the "peace process is moving forward".\n
Hard-line Hurriyat Conference chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani has asked Kashmiris to desist from allowing people from outside Jammu and Kashmir to stay with them as tenants.
Jamaat-e-Islami leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani told Pakistan's Friday Times that the two militant outfits 'have never acted in a manner that is against humanity or morality'.
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