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| Mirwaiz to meet visiting delegation at Cheshma Shahi | | Desperate Govt takes Yasin, Sehrai, ors to Humhama | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sept 2: Much against the nationwide sentiment that the all party delegation scheduled to visit Kashmir this weekend should not hold talks with the separatists, the government is busy setting the stage for the commencement of "backchannel" diplomacies this weekend.
Official sources confirmed that senior separatist leader and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik and his party colleague Noor Muhammad Kalwal have been removed from the Central Jail Srinagar and shifted to Humhama Sub Jail, near the Srinagar airport. The same holds true for senior leaders from the Hurriyat G led by Syed Ali Geelani.
At least three leaders from the Geelani camp, including Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai and Ayaz Akbar Bhat have also been lodged at the Humhama Sub jail.
Sources said the separatists leaders were shifted from the Central Jail Srinagar and dentention centers elsewhere, to Humhama, so as to keep scope for their meeting with the all party delegation.
It was reliably learnt that the detained leaders have got "feelers" about their proposed meeting with the visiting Member Parliaments.
"Central Jail Srinagar is situated near the densely populated downtown and it would be difficult for us to facilitate the meeting of the visiting MPs with the jailed leaders, so all such prospective faces have been shifted to a more secured detention facility near the Srinagar airport where arranging a meeting is more feasible," said a senior official in know of the matter.
Sources said on the other hand, Hurriyat M Chairman Mirwaiz Dr Umar Farooq has been deliberately detained at a hut at CheshmaShahi so that his meeting with the visiting delegates can also be arranged. Official sources said it would have been difficult to facilitate meeting between the Mirwaiz and the MPs at his Nigeen residence.
"Basically the plan is to arrange secret meeting between the visiting delegates and the separatists as and when need arises… This is why the detained separatists have been shifted to secret and more secure locations," the sources told Early Times.
On August 24, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was picked up from his Nigeen residence and shifted to hut in Cheshma Shahi where he has been living since.
While Yasin Malik had been jailed for around a month, he was shifted to Humhama sub jail earlier this week.
Even as the all party delegation is scheduled to visit Kashmir on September 3 and 4, some of them as per sources are likely to meet the separatist leadership.
Member Parliament and former Sadr-e-Riyasat Dr Karan Singh has already appealed that his colleagues should meet the separatists.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh on the other hand has clarified that any of the 22-member delegation baring him was free to talk to anyone including separatists. |
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