Yasin MalikThe JKLF chief was arrested from his party's Abi Guzar area office adjacent to the city centre Lal Chowk. By IANS | Posted 25-May-2016Srinagar:Pro-Azadi Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Muhammad Yasin Malik was arrested in summer capital Srinagar on Wednesday on the eve of a protest shutdown called by the separatists against a proposed colony to house ex-servicemen in the valley. Earlier in the day, police placed Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, chairman of the moderate Hurriyat group, under house arrest in his uptown Nigeen residence in Srinagar city. The separatists have also called for post Friday prayer protests in the Valley the day after. State government spokesman and Education Minister Naeem Akhtar had last week denied that a Sainik colony was being set up anywhere in the Valley.

Source: Mid-Day May 25, 2016 06:30 UTC