The leaders returned after a fortnight-long visit to Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir.\n
'Yaseen Malik has spoken the truth. I worked as a senior office-bearer of JKLF till 1994 and I have interacted with cadres trained in his camp in Ternool," said the man who had hijacked an Indian Airlines plane in 1971.
The Hizbul Mujahideen chief said he could not back their peace moves or any future Kashmir solution unless hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani was taken on board, local media reported.
Clashes between protesters and law enforcing agencies were reported from Sopore, Anantnag, Rajpora, Shopian towns and Safakadal area of the city.
Geelani was to visit the residence of four youths on Thursday to express sympathy and solidarity with them.
The Centre has said that it will hold talks with a cross-section of separatist leaders from the state and is also likely to call other separatist leaders outside Hurriyat, including Shabir Shah.
A joint contingent of police and paramilitary forces laid a cordon around Geelani's Hyderpora house early in the morning.
In a damning revelation, a former top Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front militant has said that Pakistan Information\nMinister Sheikh Rashid's mansion in Rawalpindi was used as a 'guesthouse' and for 'arms storage' for Kashmiri militant recruits.
JKLF leader Yasin Malik on terrorism and independence.
London-based Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front pans other separatists who gave the Kashmir roundtable a miss.
Singh's meeting with Malik comes a week ahead of his talks with a cross-section of political parties and separatists groups from the state.
Speaking at a meeting in Gilgit in the northern areas on Sunday, Khan said: "Pakistan government has changed its Kashmir policy 12 times since 1947."
They want to gauge public opinion on the recent Indo-Pakistan peace talks.
It will also organist blood donation camps to raise 100 pints of blood for the victims, a party spokesman said.
A JKLF spokesman said the Kashmir issue was discussed at the meeting, but did not spell out the details.
The team also visited Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front headquarters at Maisuma and held a prolonged meeting with chairman Mohammad Yaseen Malik.
Human Rights Forum chairman Mohammad Ahsan Untoo and Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front Vice-Chairman Javed Ahmed Mir were trying to take out a procession against the death sentence given to three persons in the Parliament attack case.
An engineering student was hit by a tear smoke shell fired by the police to disperse a stone-pelting mob near his residence.
It also cancelled the bail allowed to the J&K Liberation Front chief.
The joint separatist camp, including Hurriyat Conference factions led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik-led Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front, has asked the people to march to Tral to pay tributes to Wani, who was killed in an encounter with security forces on this day last year.
The outfit's chairman Yasin Malik and two other seniro members were arrested on Thursday.
The curbs on assembly of people were put in place in the police station areas of Nowhatta, Khanyar, Rainawari, Safakadal and Maharaj Gunj in downtown (interior) areas and in Maisuma in Srinagar, as well as in Shopian town.
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