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| Separatists plan agitation as Govt shifts prisoners from Central Jail Srinagar | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 4: While the government has shifted some of the dreaded militants and separatists lodged at Central Jail Srinagar to other jails, the so called Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) is contemplating a major agitation against the government decision.
Sources said the JRL leaders including Hurriyat G Chairman Syed Ali Geelani, his counterpart from Hurriyat M Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik are in touch with each other and have decided to go for "phase-wise agitation" to seek return of the prisoners to the Central Jail Srinagar.
Sources said the JRL is calling a meeting to pass resolution for future course of action while a daylong hartal may be called to begin with.
The prisoners, including former militant Qasim Faktoo, who is husband of Dukhtaran e Millat Chief Asiya Andrabi, have been reportedly shifted to other jails.
Sources said Qasim was shifted to Jammu on the intervening night of March 3 and 4. "He was shifted from central jail Srinagar to Police Control Room, wherefrom in a secret operation he was taken to Jammu in the night hours," said an official.
Sources said the JRL leadership is in contact with its Pakistani handlers. "What we have got inputs is that Pakistan may try to incite agitation in Kashmir in the wake of shifting of prisoners from the Central Jail which had become a hub of azadi sentiment," said a senior official.
Sources said the Pakistani handlers have told Hurriyat that the separatist leadership should be united on the issue. Sources said a couple of leaders from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party have contacted the Hurriyat and expressed their "veiled support for the cause."
Sources said the leaders have even guided the JRL on how to start a multi-pronged agitation including filing of petitions. Sources said some of the PDP leaders who are not happy with position assigned to them in them in the ruling government are trying to keep the JRL in good humor for personal gains.
A source in the Hurriyat said Geelani is likely to call a joint meeting at his Hyderpora residence to decide future course of action. "The long term strategy will be decided after the meeting but as an immediate measure, hartal is on the cards," said a Hurriyat leader adding that militants would support any such hartal call.
Meanwhile a senior police official said the government was prepared to tackle any situation. |
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