Chairperson of the Mutahida Khawateen Markaz (MKM), Razia Sultan, was taken into preventive custody along with fourteen party activists when they tried to take out a march violating prohibitory orders here on Saturday. The burqa-clad MKM activists, carrying playcards and banners demanding release of woman Hurriyat leader Zamrooda Habib and intervention of human rights organisations to stop alleged atrocities against women in the Valley, gathered near Partap Park and started marching towards the local office of the United Nations Military Observers Group at Sonawar, the sources said.
Ah, yes. The UN Military Observers Group in Kashmir:
"Lookit dat, Alfonse! They're shootin' each other!"
"Why so they are, Gaston! Make a note of it, will you?"
They were stopped by police at Regal Chowk and fifteen of them including Sultan were detained, sources said, adding, other women participants dispersed on their own. Zamrooda, a general council member of Hurriyat Conference, had been arrested by the police in Delhi earlier this year on charges of receiving money from Pakistan High Commission for funding terrorist outfits. |
Authorities put several separatist leaders under house arrest on Friday even as a complete shutdown crippled life here. Senior separatist leaders, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Shabir Ahmad Shah were put under house arrest by the authorities to prevent their proposed march to the headquarters of the United Nations Military Observers Group (UNMOG) in this summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir. The separatist leaders had announced their march to the headquarters of UNMOG to present a memorandum against the alleged economic blockade of the Kashmir valley and the harassment of the minority Muslim community in the Jammu region.