A day after Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah ignored the Centre’s advice not to meet the Pakistani NSA, leading to his detention, the Enforcement Directorate issued summons to him in a 2005 case of terror financing through hawala channel.
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Several other separatist leaders including moderate Hurriyat Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and JKLF Chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik were put under house arrest yesterday but were released within couple of hours.
Police on Saturday detained two top Kashmiri separatist leaders after they landed at New Delhi’s airport ahead of talks between Indian and Pakistani security advisers.
“India did not set any preconditions We only reiterated that Pakistan respect the spirit of the Simla & Ufa Agreements to which it was already committed”, said the Indian Foreign Ministry in a statement Saturday evening.
The authorities have strengthened the deployment around his residence.
Earlier, talking to mediamen in Srinagar before leaving for New Delhi, Shabbir Ahmed Shah said that India and Pakistan talks must go on.
Kashmir, the Himalayan region divided between India and Pakistan is claimed by both in full. India was running diplomacy through media and trying to give impression that Pakistan army was not supportive of talks.
Meanwhile, the Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh has advised Pakistan not to deviate from the agenda that had already been set for the NSA-level talks.
He brushed aside the furore over the meeting of Hurriyat leaders with Sartaj Aziz ahead of the National Security Advisor-level talks between Pakistan and India and said. “Pakistan’s officials and representatives, including their prime ministers and presidents have spoken to us and we have been allowed to by the then governments”, Shah told reporters.
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“It was Pakistan, and not India, that was running away from the dialogue”.
