Separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah put under house arrest

Lone is the fourth separatist from Kashmir who was detained at the Delhi airport.

Shah along with two other separatist leaders Mohammed Abdullah Tari and Zamir Ahmed Sheikh are under house arrest in a south Delhi guest house and the trio will remain confined to that place only.

Pakistan’s ambassador in New Delhi has invited the Kashmiri separatist leaders to meet Aziz before his meeting with his Indian counterpart tomorrow.

A day before his departure for Delhi for Sunday’s schedule talks, Pakistan National Security Advisor Sartaz Aziz has also called a media meet in Islamabad at 1 pm (local time).

“Kashmir is an important issue…Pakistan’s stand is clear”.

Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah on Saturday left for Delhi to hold talks with Pakistan NSA Sartaj Aziz.

Pakistan on Saturday canceled the upcoming much publicized top security officials’ talks with arch-rival India over “pre-conditions”, the Foreign Ministry said. During their tenure, they never blocked us from meeting Pakistani officials when they came to India…

Asked if Pakistan NSA Sartaj Aziz’s proposed assembly with Hurriyat leaders might be thought-about a hurdle to talks with India, he stated the engagement between the 2 nations was extra necessary and talks with Hurriyat shouldn’t matter a lot.

“Is the present government trying to say that they were wrong?”

India on its part insisted that the prime ministers of the two countries had decided in their meeting in Ufa, Russia, last month that the NSA meeting will focus on issues related to terrorism.

The Pakistani invitation, which is seen as yet another “provocation” by Indian side, comes after persistent ceasefire violations as well as two terror attacks in recent weeks in Gurdaspur and Udhampur which many observers see as Pakistan army’s opposition to any discussions with India. India was running diplomacy through media and trying to give impression that Pakistan army was not supportive of talks.

On Thursday, several separatist leaders were held in Srinagar, the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir, but released hours later.