New Delhi: Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik reached Srinagar on Friday after he flown by Delhi Police, which took him into preventive custody after denying permission for his protest to press for his demands, including handing over the body of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader was to begin his 48-hour-long hunger strike on Friday but police had denied permission for the protest at Jantar Mantar.
As a preventive measure, Malik was taken into custody on Thursday night. "He was flown to Srinagar in a SpiceJet flight," sources said. Malik was apparently to go ahead with his 48-hour protest from today till Sunday.
The decision to deny permission for his protest came after security agencies submitted a report to the Union Home Ministry that giving permission to Malik to hold protest in Delhi may create law and order problem. The report also said Malik had been involved in "anti-national" activities in the past, they said.
The JKLF leader had shared dais with Lashkar-e-Taiba founder and India's most wanted terror mastermind Hafiz Sayeed when he had staged a protest in Islamabad against the hanging of Guru. ...
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09:47 AM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Thursday took Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik into preventive custody. Malik was to hold a 48-hour hunger strike in the capital to press for his demands, including handing over the body of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru to his family. The Delhi Police had denied permission to Malik to hold his protest. "Yes," said Commissioner Neeraj Kumar when asked by reporters whether any decision...
11:27 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police has denied permission to Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik to hold a 48-hour hunger strike in the capital to press for his demands including handing over the body of Parliament attack case convict Afzal Guru to his family. "Yes," said City Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar when asked by reporters whether any decision was taken to deny permission for the protest at Jantar Mantar starting on Friday....
04:16 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik will not be allowed to stage any protest in New Delhi as announced by him, to press for handing over of the body of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru to his family. Official sources said the Home Ministry is likely to advise the Delhi Police to refuse permission to Malik to stage any protest at Jantar Mantar demanding handing over of the body...
01:06 AM, May 02, 2013
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Yasin Malik, who reached Srinagar on Sunday, has been put under house arrest. However, the house arrest is not related to the Hafiz Saeed controversy. Sources said the step was taken due to apprehension of breach of peace following Malik's return to the Valley. ...
04:16 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Returning from a private visit to Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Yasin Malik on Saturday faced a protest from some right-wing activists, demanding his arrest for sharing a stage along with 26/11 accused Hafiz Saeed. ...
01:04 AM, Mar 10, 2013
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Yasin Malik returned from Pakistan on Saturday evening amid protests by Shiv Sena activists at the Delhi airport. He will be spending the night in Delhi. His trip to Pakistan was shrouded in controversy after he was seen sharing the dais with one of India's most wanted terrorist Hafiz Saeed in Islamabad. The separatist leader from Jammu and Kashmir had shared the stage...
10:27 PM, Mar 09, 2013
Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Yasin Malik is expected to arrive in India on Saturday evening from Pakistan under a cloud of controversy. The separatist leader from Jammu and Kashmir is set to stay the night in the capital before travelling to Srinagar on Sunday. ...
05:30 PM, Mar 09, 2013
Amid concerns over Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik sharing the dais with 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed in Pakistan and demands for revoking his passport, the external affairs ministry on Tuesday said if it receives a request for impounding Malik's passport it would "act on it". ...
01:38 AM, Feb 13, 2013
Domestic politics has broken out over Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik's visit to Islamabad where he shared stage with the key conspirator of 26/11 attacks and Lashkar-e-Toiba chief Hafiz Saeed on Sunday in Islamabad at an event organised to protest parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's hanging. ...
01:46 PM, Feb 12, 2013
After four days of curfew in the valley since Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's hanging, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik is now courting a controversy. He shared the stage with the key conspirator of 26/11 attacks and Lashkar-e-Toiba chief Hafiz Saeed, on Sunday in Islamabad at an event organised to mourn Afzal Guru's hanging. ...
11:19 AM, Feb 12, 2013
JKLF leader Yasin Malik sharing a dais with LeT Chief and Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed in Pakistan on Monday created a flutter in India. ...
10:55 PM, Feb 11, 2013
Srinagar: Police arrested Muhammad Yasin Malik, chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front following post-prayer protests in uptown Maisuma locality of summer capital Srinagar on Friday. Malik was leading dozens of supporters after the Friday prayers during a JKLF march to city centre Lal Chowk from the adjacent Maisuma locality. Police intercepted the march and arrested Malik and five other JKLF leaders. This resulted in protests as people in...
04:14 PM, Dec 07, 2012
Srinagar: Anti-Islam film protests rocked Kashmir Valley yet again on Friday with Jammu with police detaining Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik in Srinagar. There were some incidents of clashes between the police and protestors in Srinagar. Police lobbed tear gas shells on Dukhtaran-e -Millat activists, who were leading the protests. The authorities had imposed strict restricts on the movement of people in old Srinagar city and Anantnag town...
01:11 PM, Sep 21, 2012
Srinagar: Authorities on Monday placed all senior Kashmiri separatist leaders under house arrest to maintain law and order during the congregational Eid prayers in Srinagar. "These measures have been taken to ensure that nobody disturbs peace and tranquility in the city on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr," a police official said. Those placed under house arrest include Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Shabir Shah, Muhammad Yasin Malik and Muhammad Nayeem...
09:59 AM, Aug 20, 2012
Lahore: Separatist leader Yasin Malik has said his Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front will make efforts to get the Kashmir issue resolved "without the help of Pakistan". "We will step up our efforts to resolve the Kashmir issue if Pakistan, India and other international stakeholders continue with their irresponsible behaviour towards it," he told reporters after meeting Jamaat-e-Islami chief Munawar Hasan at the party's headquarters in Mansoora on Sunday. "We...
03:13 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Srinagar: The chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Yasin Malik and his seven aides were on Thursday detained by police at Banihal while they were going to tension gripped Rajouri town. "Malik and seven other JKLF leaders were detained by police at Banihal as they were heading towards Rajouri," JKLF spokesman said. He said Malik was going to the border town in Jammu region as part of his efforts...
06:47 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Srinagar: Separatist leader Yasin Malik and six others were arrested in Srinagar on Friday. They were protesting over the death of a Kashmiri youth in CISF firing on Monday. Kashmir has been reeling under day-long power cuts for the past several weeks. The massive load shedding led to a series of protests in the state. In Uri, a youth was killed when the CISF opened fire at the protesting villagers....
03:40 PM, Jan 06, 2012
New Delhi: The US embassy officials in New Delhi referred to top moderate separatist leaders including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq as "four musketeers" as Washington maintained "no contact" with hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani since 2001 for his ties with "terrorist groups". Apart from Mirwaiz, former amalgam chairmen Abdul Gani Bhat and Maulvi Abbas Ansari, and Bilal Lone were the other three "musketeers", the cables from the US Embassy released by...
09:21 PM, Sep 03, 2011
New Delhi: The US getting tough on Pakistan. It has given the country a deadline till July to capture five most wanted al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists. Pakistani security forces have been asked to capture al-Zawahiri, Mullah Omar, Illyas Kashmiri, Sirajuddin Haqqani and Atia Abdur Rehman either in a unilateral or joint military action. July is when NATO and allied forces begin withdrawing from neighbouring Afghanistan. PTI also quoted a...
08:09 AM, Jun 02, 2011
