Hours after being put under house arrest, Kashmiri separatist leaders released | The Indian Express
Hours after being placed under house arrest and facing severe criticism for detaining the separatist leaders ahead of NSA talks, the J&K government has now released all the separatist leaders. Earlier, the separatist leaders were told that they would remain under detention till August 24. “We are confused, first heavy contingent of police was placed at the houses of our leaders and offices. We were told that all leaders have been placed under house arrest,’’ Hurriyat (G) spokesman, Ayaz Akbar told The Indian Express. He said after an hour’s detention, the police have now released all the leaders. Hurriyat (M) spokesman, Sahid –ul – Islam said that police has lifted the cordon around the house of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. “Now there are no restrictions. We don’t know why the decision has been taken,’’ he said Earlier, leaders of both the factions of Hurriyat Conference had blamed the government for trying to scuttle their meeting with Pakistani NSA Sartaj Aziz. On Tuesday, Pakistani High Commission had invited all the prominent separatist leaders to New Delhi for a meeting with Aziz ahead of talks with his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval. All the separatist leaders including Syed Ali Geelani had said that they will attend the meeting and express their point of view to Aziz before he begins formal talks with the Indian NSA. Watch video A senior police officer told the Indian Express that first they had received orders early in the morning to put all the separatist leaders under house arrest. “Now we have been directed to release all the leaders.’’ Former J-K Chief Minister and National Conference working president Omar Abdullah had criticized CM Mufti Mohammed Sayeed for arresting the separatist leaders in attempts to prevent them from visiting Delhi to meet Aziz. In a series of tweets, Omar launched an attack on Mufti, saying that he is following the orders of his “masters.” “Shame on Mufti Syed for arresting on demand. He had no business following his masters orders & detaining the Hurriyat leaders like this,” Omar said in a tweet. In another tweet, Omar said that previous state governments have never prevented leaders to visit Pakistan High Commission. “J&K State governments in the past have NEVER detained the APHC leaders so as to prevent them from visiting the Pak High Commission,” he said. The former Cm said in another tweet, “If the centre was so keen to prevent the Hurriyat leaders from meeting Sartaj Aziz they should’ve been told to detain them themselves.” Omar said that both sides are keen to sabotage the dialogue. “I’ve never seen an Indo-Pak dialogue where both sides are so keen to sabotage it. India & Pak competing to give reasons to call off talks,” he tweeted. He added that both India and Pakistan are holding talks under international pressure. “It’s so obvious that Ufa & now these planned NSA talks are under international pressure with both Ind & Pak hoping the other will pull out,” Omar - See more at:
Hours after being put under house arrest, Kashmiri separatist leaders released | The Indian Express
... don't you agree ?
........... apparently PLENTY is meeting us already. Afghanistan becomes a nice staging area. 
