Police detained Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman Yasin Malik and Zahid Ali, a spokesman for the recently banned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) party, days after the attack. The authorities accuses JeI of supporting ‘militancy’ in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK), which is at the heart of decades of conflict between the two neighbouring countries. Police said both Malik and Ali were being moved to a jail in Jammu, the winter capital of occupied Kashmir. Malik’s supporters called for a shutdown in Srinagar to protest against his detention with shops and other commercial establishments closed. At least 300 Kashmiris, most of them from that group have been arrested in the past three weeks.

Source: The Express Tribune March 07, 2019 17:33 UTC