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Jammu violence subsides, Kashmiri leaders incarcerated;
Yasin Malik shifted to intensive care; central ministers to lead delegation
WSN Bureau

As violence recedes in Jammu, in its typical style, the state becomes hyperactive and detains Kashmiri leaders Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Shabir Ahmad Shah ahead of a central ministers Pranab Mukherjee and Shivraj Patil visit to Jammu. Yasin Malik had to be hospitalized due to failing health as he is on the fourth day of his indefinite fast.

SRINAGAR: While violence in Jammu subsided and the government planned to send a delegation on August 9, led by Home Minister Shivraj Patil and External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee for talks with the Amarnath Yatra Committee, Kashmiri leaders Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Shabir Ahmad Shah marching towards the headquarters of the United Nations Military Observers Group (UNMOG) were put under house arrest.

As the condition of the chairperson of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Muhammad Yasin Malik, who is on a indefinite fast, deteriorated on Thursday morning; he has been shifted to the intensive care unit of Soura Medical Institute. He has been on a fast for he last three days demanding cessation of hostilities against Kashmiris and complete stoppage of all blockade of Kashmir.

While beginning his fast, he had declared that, “There is need to counter the brazen attempts to communalise the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. It is part of the policy to divide the state along communal lines which we will not allow to succeed,”

Civil society responded to the call of Yasin Malik and a galaxy of civil libertarians, prominent among them being Maisuma, Professor Ayesha Jalal, Prof. Sugata Bose, Swami Agnivesh, Veena Ji and Ram Mohan Roy met him today and expressed solidarity for his mission.

Another leader, Bhim Singh and Satish Poonchi of the Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) were also hospitalised after their condition suddenly deteriorated on the fourth day of their fast unto death. These leaders have been demanding restoration of land back to the Amarnath shrine board.

7 August, 2008

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