Malik, others released

Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik and a some other pro-resistance leaders including MushtaqAjmal, Zahoor Ahmad Butt, Hilal Ahmad Waar were released from Central Jail Srinagar on Sunday.

However, JKLF zonal president Noor Muhammad Kalwal,, vice organiserSirajud Din Mir, district president Baramullah Abdul Rashid Magloo remain incarcerated at the jail, Kreeri police station and Baramullah sub-jail respectively, a spokesman of the Front said.

   

Malik and many other leaders and activists had been arrested by the police on April 12. 

The spokesman said police arrested JKLF activist Bilal Ahmad Dar of Nasrullahpora second time in a week. 

“Yesterday, SHO Budgam had called Bilal Ahmad Dar and another JKLF activist Molvi Rashid to the police station. He kept them waiting for the entire day and then detained Bilal in the evening,” the spokesman said. 

On 7 April 2018, police had arrested the duo and released them after about four days of detention. 

“Police are actually looking for Bilal’s son but and arrested him, which is highly unethical and condemnable,” the spokesman said.

 Meanwhile, senior vice-chairman of JKLF Abdul Hamid Butt has been called for a united protest being organised against “Indian atrocities on the people of Jammu and Kashmir” during the upcoming visit of Prime Minister NarendraModi to the United Kingdom on 18 April 2018. 

“Butt, who has a distinction of being a close companion of father of Kashmiri nation Martyr Muhammad Maqbool Butt and close associate of late leader Aman-Ullah Khan, appealed Kashmiris living in United Kingdom (UK)  to join hands and stage protest against ongoing oppression in Jammu Kashmir unleashed by Indian armed forces,” the spokesman said.

Meanwhile, a delegation of Front leaders visited Khudwani, Kulgam, and expressed solidarity with the bereaved family of martyr Sharjeel Ahmad Sheikh, the spokesman said.

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