Srinagar: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP), Kashmir unit, held its first meeting here today ever since the killing of militant commander Burhan Wani on July 8 sparked widespread protests.The Valley unrest that entered its 89th day today, besides throwing normal life out of gear, has also affected political activities even as the BJP earlier claimed that 19 of its workers were attacked during protests.And as the BJP cadres held a meeting at its Rajbagh party office, they expressed hope that normalcy would return in a “few days.”“The situation is improving but still we have to trek a long distance and it will be normal in a few days…because public at large wants peace and development. People want to come out to lead a normal life but a few are still in a mood to disturb the normalcy on the instructions of their masters sitting across the border,” said senior BJP leader and MLC Ramesh Arora, who chaired the meeting.BJP, Kashmir media in charge, Altaf Thakur said they were meeting for the first time after the ongoing unrest and that they would be resuming normal party activities very soon.“The BJP cadres had to go through a tough time during the unrest as 19 of our workers were attacked. Now that things are improving, we held a first full-fledged party meeting today,” he said.Before the ongoing unrest, the BJP, Kashmir unit, was working to strengthen the party base and had claimed enrolment of over 3.3 lakh members in the Valley.Meanwhile, Arora appealed to the students to start their studies and not get “mislead by the slogans.” Stating that peace was the only solution for progress, he said: “Those who have burnt the autos of poor persons must be ashamed and the police must take strong steps to control such incidents.”“India is a big democratic country, it cannot allow any type of disintegration of land. Surgical strikes (across LoC) reflect the mindset and determination of the nation. People, especially students and teenagers, must understand that no power on the earth can deviate us from our determination to provide a peaceful atmosphere where each and every person can grow without fear and pressure,” he added. (Tribune News Service)
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Joint Resistance Leadership issues Fresh Protest Programme
Srinagar: Joint Resistance Leadership issues Fresh Protest Programme
(From October 07, 2016 to October 13, 2016)
Friday, October 07
(No Relaxation)
UNMOGIP March
From 9 am, Marchone & all from the entire Jammu & Kashmir towards the UNMOGIP Office, Srinagar and handover a memorandum to the military observers regarding India’s recent attempts of creating war hysteria to deflect international attention from ongoing People’s uprising for freedom from forcible Indian occupation of Jammu & Kashmir and also asking UNO to impress upon Indiato shun the violence and respect and adhere to UN charter and implement the UN resolutions on Kashmir;
OfferFriday prayerPoloview ground, TRC ground and adjacent parks;
Resistance/Masjid Committees/Youth Volunteers of Srinagar coordinate&ensure the arrangementsSaturday, October 08
(Relaxation from 5 pm to 6 am)
One Day Students’Resistance Convention
All the students, school to university level, from neighbouring villages and localities organise one day students’ resistance conventionfrom 11 am to 4 pmin respective areas;
Educate yourself and others about the Indian occupation alternate history, freedom struggle and real heroes of Jammu and Kashmir;
Educate yourself and others the ways and means to liberate our mind, soul, body and land form the shackles of Indian occupation and how to consciously make resistance our way of living;
Professors, Teachers, Research Scholars, and others professionals should actively participate in this one day teaching-learning program;
Resistance/Masjid Committees/Youth Volunteers of these areas coordinate and ensure the arrangementsSunday, October 09
(No Relaxation)
Azadi Prayer Day
Form Zuhrto Maghrib hold special prayer for the freedom form Indian Military Occupation in all Mosques across Jammu & Kashmir;
Offer QunootNazilah as our beloved Prophet Muhammad SallalahuAlaiheWassallam used to at times of calamity, difficulty and hardships of Ummah and beseech Allah SubhanahuwaTa’ala for His forgiveness, His mercy and the salvation of weak and oppressed people of Jammu & Kashmir form brutal military occupation and oppression;
Resistance/Masjid Committees/Youth Volunteers ensure the arrangementsMonday, October 10
(No Relaxation)
Occupy all roads towards J&K Police Stations
Come out of your homes at 9 am andoccupy all the roads leading to your respective police stations till 4 pm;
Protest with the banners, placards and posters with the messages: “JK Police: Shame on You to Continue Taking the Side of Indian Occupying State”, “JK Police: Shame on You for Killing, Maiming, Arresting & Torturing Your Own People”, “JK Police: You are also WAR CRIMINALS as Other Indian Occupation Forces”, “JK Police: Kashmiris Will Neither FORGET Nor FORGIVE Your Oppression to Crush Freedom Struggle”;
Offer Zuhr on roadsTuesday, October 11
(No Relaxation)
Women’s Day
Assemble & Occupy local chowks and centres from Zuhr to Asr in the vicinity of your mohallas, villages and localities;
Protest with Flags, Placards and Banners with Freedom messages and slogansWednesday, October 12
(Relaxation from 5 pm to 6 am)
Langate, Zaingeer, Aloosa, B.K. Pora, Safapora, Hazratbal (Central), Dadsara, Imam Sahib, Frisal, Qazigund Freedom March
From 9 am,March one & all from Kupwara to Langate, Baramulla to Zaingeer, Bandipora to Aloosa, Budgam to B.K. Pora, Ganderbal to Safapora, Srinagar to Hazratbal (Central), Pulwama to Dadsara, Shopian to Imam Sahib, Kulgam to Frisal and Islamabad to Qazigund;
Post Zuhr prayer, hold Freedom Congregation at the place identified and agreed upon locally and mutually;
Resistance/Masjid Committees/Youth Volunteers of these Blocks coordinate and ensure the arrangementsThursday, October 13
(Relaxation from 5 pm to 6 am)
One Day Azadi Convention
Neighbouring villages and localities organize one day Azadi conventionfrom 11 am to 4 pm in respective areas;
Deliberate and discuss ways and means to strengthen the ongoing People’s uprising for freedom from Indian occupation;
Resistance/Masjid Committees/Youth Volunteers of these areas coordinate and ensure the arrangementsDirections For All Days
1. Protests be held across Jammu & Kashmir.
2. Shutdown across Jammu & Kashmir on all days except for the relaxation mentioned in the program.
3. Public vehicular movement not to be stopped after 10 pm to 6 am on all nights.
4. Lockdown all the routes entering your Mohallas, Villages and Localities by every means during night to protect people in general and youth in particular from the raids and arrests by Indian forces and J&K Police.
5. Play Islamic and AzadiTaranas from Maghrib to Isha on all days.
6. Paste this Protest Program Poster on the entrance of every mosque and in Market places, Mohallas & Local Chowks. -
Kashmir: Mass crackdown, burning crops an institutional effort to punish people, says Omar Abdullah
‘Cannot burn crops and fodder and destroy transformers and then expect peace and reconciliation’
Srinagar: National Conference Working President Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said the mass crackdown and unabated repression of civilians in Kashmir was unprecedented and seemed like an institutional effort to punish people for the current unrest.
In a statement, the former chief minister said it was imprudent for the State Government to expect that nocturnal raids, PSAs, burning crops and fodder and destroying electric transformers would somehow lead to sustainable peace and normalcy.
“Nocturnal raids, imposing PSAs indiscriminately, ransacking people’s homes and burning their crops and animal fodder cannot be an acceptable modus operandi of the State’s security forces in dealing with a political situation.“Hundreds of electric transformers in rural areas have been damaged beyond repair in a clear attempt to persecute people en-masse by depriving them of essential services. People in rural areas are now trying to protect electric transformers in their areas with sand bags because security forces are firing bullets to damage them”, he said.
Omar said persecuting people of Kashmir based on a flawed assumption that such measures would somehow arm-twist people into peace and political adherence is a dangerous policy.
“New Delhi accepted that dialogue is the answer to the simmering discontent in Kashmir and their current assumption that the agitation can be seen off by tiring people is fraught with enormous risks because when the fatigue wears out – as it eventually will, the agitation will spark off again. To deal with Kashmir as cyclic problem of agitations and managing agitations defies the overarching interests of peace and prosperity”, he added.“You have to uphold the fundamental rights of the people in Kashmir as is done in all other parts of the country and the State’s intentional reluctance to do so fuels the perception of isolation and alienation in Kashmir.”
Omar said that treating all Kashmiris as hostile combatants who deserve to be persecuted into ‘discipline’ and coerced into ‘normalcy’ is a validation of those voices that question the State’s sincerity in dealing with the people of Kashmir fairly, humanely and in a just manner”.
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Army filming ‘fake video’ in Kashmir to allay doubts on ‘surgical strike’: Er Rashid
Er Rasheed asks army not to indulge itself in staged dramas for BJP’s political dividends
Srinagar: AIP President and MLA Langate has accused Indian army and other state agencies of preparing fake footages at borders so as to put forward them as evidences for surgical strikes. In a statement issued today Er Rasheed said, “The very credible sources confirm that Indian army is engaged in filming videos in Nowgam and Leepa sectors, adjacent to borders showing as if army is carrying out covert operations in enemy’s territory, so that the same can be provided as evidences to satisfy Indian masses and world community. It is worth to mention that army had claimed to have carried strikes in this area as well. The issue of surgical strikes needs to be understood in light of Times of India story published in June this year, revealing that BJP will declare Rajnath Singh as its candidate for U.P CM, but before doing so, Rajnath Singh may claim to have carried out some big military operation in Kashmir, in order to gain sympathy among U.P voters. Any professional army needs not to fall in the trap of political establishment and Indian army should not do any misadventure or indulge in any fake propaganda just to help BJP for its political goals and also escalate tension at the borders. Unfortunately army and police have been staging managed dramas in the past from Pathribal to Machil and claims of surgical strikes and that of apprehending a Pakistani militant Bahadur Ali are the recent additions to these staged dramas. Any credible investigating agency or journalist can visit the Yehama village in Kupwara district where from Bahadur Ali was apprehended and find that how sensational and dramatic was the operation of apprehending Bahadur Ali. The culprit has been seen rooming free on a bike for three to four days before being apprehended and it is interesting that he was arrested by just two policemen, who had travelled a distance of 3Kms from the nearest police station for the job and brought him in a private vehicle to nearest police station at Qalamabad. Had he been a dreaded militant it would have been impossible to arrest him with the help of just two policemen. Ironically, next day army and task force went and photographed the area and informed locals that they had captured a Pakistani militant. Six days later, national media started claiming about Bahadur Ali’s arrest, plans and connections.” Er Rasheed further added, “First when Indian politicians praised Indian army over surgical strikes and now when they are raising questions about the same, it is obvious that they are more interested in getting political mileage over each other, rather caring about real story. The intelligence agencies on other hand want to divert attention from mass uprising in Kashmir but need to realise that even if Kashmiris call off strike, things will not change unless dispute is not resolved. However, they must all restrain from fighting battle of throne for New Delhi on streets of Kashmir. The claims and counterclaims being made by Indian politicians are enough proof to conclude that there is something serious wrong in all the claims whatsoever are being made viz-a-viz these so called surgical strikes. May one ask India army that if Pakistani’s facilitated world media to the sights where India claimed to have carried surgical strikes, why can’t India come out with concrete evidences to support its claim.”
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Nawaz Sharif should quit, says Imran Khan
“But I want to ask how any politician with a moral compass can accept a PM who has been caught money laundering in Panama Papers.
Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan on Wednesday said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif must quit over charges of money laundering.The cricketer-turned-politician justified the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf’s (PTI) decision to boycott a joint session of Parliament to discuss the Kashmir issue.“Nothing new will be achieved that was not achieved with PTI’s active participation” earlier, Khan tweeted.“But I want to ask how any politician with a moral compass can accept a PM who has been caught money laundering in Panama Papers.“Mian Panama Sharif has been caught money laundering, tax evading and hiding of assets, thereby losing all moral legitimacy to be Prime Minister,” he added.Khan said Sharif had only two options now: either to present himself for accountability or to resign like the Prime Minister of Iceland did.“He cannot seek shelter behind (the) Indian aggression in Kashmir/LoC, especially as he failed to respond firmly to it,” Khan said, referring to the Indian surgical strikes which Pakistan says never happened. -
Further discussions on surgical strikes is an insult to Indian Army: Naidu
New Delhi: Hitting out at those “seeking proof” of the army-conducted surgical strikes in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday said further discussions of the same would be an “insult” to the “commendable” task.
“There is no need to respond to such irresponsible comments and demands. Fortunately, Congress has also realised its mistake and distanced itself from the comments of its leaders… AAP has also made it very clear,” he said.
Stating that further discussions regarding the merit of the operations will be an “insult” to the force, Naidu said, “I don’t think any Indian citizen has got any doubt. Nobody is doubting the credentials and commitment of the Indian Army. It did a commendable job… It would be an insult to the Army if we further discuss (it).”
The Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) had announced of the army’s surgical strikes on September 29 in a press meet, giving sparse details of the mission. He however stated that seven militant launchpads had been damaged in the attack.
He later also shared the information at an all-party meeting.
Observing that the country had reacted positively to the news, and so had many global nations, Naidu said giving further details may not necessarily be in the best interest of the nation.
“Only Pakistan is saying something because they have to say something. They are not in a position to conduct funeral or last rites of their own citizens…This is their culture,” he said.
Reiterating the Modi-led NDA’s government’s stand, the minister said India did not want war with anybody, but would respond if continuously provoked.
“…We never want a war with anybody. If somebody continuously provokes us, we will give them a befitting reply like our jawans gave the reply recently,” he said.
Naidu was referring to the constant ceasefire violations that have been occurring along the Line of Control, especially since the surgical attack was announced.
The border, however, has been tense since last month when a group of militants, who India blames Pakistan of sponsoring, attacked an army camp in Kashmir’s Uri sector, killing 19 soldiers. The army’s surgical strike has largely been regarded as a response to the militant attack.
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Surgical strikes: Bodies taken away on trucks, loud explosions, eyewitnesses give graphic details
From classified intelligence documents accessed by The Indian Express, it appears the assault caught the Lashkar and other jihadist groups by surprise.
New Delhi: Eyewitnesses living across the Line of Control (LoC) have provided The Indian Express with graphic accounts of last week’s Indian Army special forces strikes on jihadists’ staging posts, describing how bodies of those killed in clashes before dawn on September 29 were loaded onto trucks for secret burials. The eyewitnesses also described brief but intense fire engagements that destroyed makeshift buildings that housed jihadists before they left for the last stage of their journeys across the LoC.
Their accounts corroborate India’s claims that it carried out strikes against terror launch pads a claim Pakistan has denied, saying, instead, that its military’s forward positions were targeted with small-arms and mortar fire.
They also provide, for the first time, details on some of the locations targeted in the operation, information which the governments of India and Pakistan have not made public.
However, eyewitness accounts, as well as intelligence records obtained by The Indian Express, suggest that fatalities in the raids may have been lower than the 38-50 killed attributed to Indian officials in reports, including in this newspaper, and have caused little damage to jihadist logistics and infrastructure.
Lethal strike
Five eyewitnesses were contacted by The Indian Express through their kin living on the Indian side of the LoC and questions were sent to them using a commercially available encrypted chat system. The eyewitnesses’ identities are being withheld for their safety at the request of their families.
Indian journalists have no access to the Pakistani side of the LoC and the only Pakistan media reporting from these regions has been after a team of journalists were taken to some areas by the military there.
The most detailed account of the fighting came from two eyewitnesses who visited Dudhnial, a small hamlet some 4 km across the LoC from India’s nearest forward post, Gulab, ahead of the town of Kupwara. The eyewitness reported seeing a gutted building across the Al-Haawi bridge from the hamlet’s main bazaar, where a military outpost and a compound used by the Lashkar are both sited.
Al-Haawi bridge is the last point where infiltrating groups are loaded with supplies before beginning their climb up to the LoC towards Kupwara, both eyewitnesses said.
Local residents told one of the eyewitnesses that loud explosions — possibly rounds fired from 84-mm Carl Gustav rifles — were heard from across the Al-Haawi bridge late in the night, along with intense small-arms fire. “People did not come out to see what was going on,” the eyewitness reported, “so did not see Indian soldiers but they gathered from the Lashkar people the next day that they had been attacked.”
Five, perhaps six, bodies were loaded on to a truck early next morning, and possibly transported to the nearest major Lashkar camp at Chalhana, across the Neelum river from Teetwal, on the Indian side of the LoC, the eyewitness said he was told by local residents.
The Indian Army has made no official claim on casualties, but Director General of Military Operations Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh said the strikes caused “significant casualties” to “terrorists and those providing support to them.”
Friday prayers at a Lashkar-affiliated mosque in Chalhana, another eyewitness said, ended with a cleric vowing to avenge the deaths of the men killed the previous day. “The Lashkar men gathered there were blaming the Pak Army for failing to defend the border”, he said in one message, “and saying they would soon give India an answer it would never forget”.
From classified intelligence documents accessed by The Indian Express, it appears the assault caught the Lashkar and other jihadist groups by surprise. Intelligence Bureau records, one released on September 30 for a scheduled inter-agency meeting in New Delhi, spoke only of one major build-up, saying up to 40 jihadists had massed in Kél, facing India’s Machil sector. This unusual number was interpreted to be a preparation for a last-ditch infiltration push before the passes closed in early winter.
Terrorists unprepared
Elsewhere, though, nine intelligence alerts seen by The Indian Express, and issued in the week prior to the strike, flagged only small groups of five to 10 infiltrators biding their time at so-called “launch-pads”, essentially rural homes located close to military facilities, from where jihadists are guided towards India’s LoC defences.
“They were basically sitting around thinking it was business as usual”, an official familiar with the intelligence said. “Many of them would have died crossing the LoC anyway, when they hit our defences but this (the strikes) has made them feel unsafe one step back in their journeys”.
Leepa, a complex of some 25 hamlets located at the bottom of the Qazi Nag stream flowing down from the mountains above Naugam, on the Indian side of the LoC, was among the “launch-pads” targeted in the cross-LoC raids, one eyewitness said. Though the eyewitness was unable to visit the area, he said he spoken to villagers who had seen a Lashkar-occupied three-storied wooden building destroyed by Indian troops near the hamlet of Khairati Bagh.
Khairati Bagh was, until 2003, a major Lashkar base, which was slowly scaled down once the LoC ceasefire went into place and the terrorist group’s cross-LoC operations slowly declined. It remains, though, of key importance to the group, offering multiple lines of access into northern Kashmir through Chowkibal and the Bangas bowl.
The eyewitness said local residents said “three or four” Lashkar personnel were thought to have been killed in the raid, while others fled into the adjoining forests after the firing began.
Interestingly, the eyewitness said the Jamaat-ud-Dawa’s charitable wing, the Falah-i-Insaniyat Foundation, had held a major eye-surgery camp in Khairati Bagh in August, using the opportunity to deliver speeches on alleged atrocities by Indian soldiers in Kashmir. Fire and explosions were also heard, an eyewitness said, from the east bank of the Neelum river in Athmuqam, the district headquarters of the region.
Next to Pak Army
The fighting, the eyewitness said, appeared to have taken place near military camps along the Katha Nar stream that empties into the Neelum river just north of the town. A bustling town that serves as a hub for tourism and commerce, Athmuqam is also a major military hub, with several army facilities on the ridges the east bank of the river, sheltered from artillery bombardment.
The ghost villages of Bicchwal and Bugna, almost entirely abandoned by their residents who fled when the long jihad in Kashmir began in 1990, are barely 2 km from Salkhanna, the first village on the Pakistani side of the LoC, and the last loading point for jihadist infiltrators.
An eyewitness who visited the Neelum District Hospital in Athmuqam said he heard several Lashkar personnel had been killed and injured in the clash last Thursday but said no bodies had been buried locally.
Neelum valley residents, tied by kinship to mountain peoples on the other side of the LoC, have had a fraught relationship with jihadists operating in the area, fearing the collapse of the India-Pakistan ceasefire could lead to the return of the artillery exchanges which claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians before 2003.
In 2011, India-Pakistan military clashes led scores of Athmuqam women and children to march to the local army unit, demanding that it stop cross-border movement by jihadists.
The Pakistan Army responded by locating jihadist launch-pads alongside its camps, thus minimising contact between local residents and groups like the Lashkar. However, the massive street violence in Kashmir has led to a surge in the visibility of jihadists across the Neelum valley.
Written by Praveen Swami Indian Express
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Pakistan barred from Kabaddi World Cup in India
New Delhi: The 12-nation Kabaddi World Cup kicks off this week in India, with a row over a decision to bar arch-rivals Pakistan from competing threatening to overshadow the tag-wrestling sport’s showcase event.
With the World Cup last staged nine years ago, teams are relishing the chance to compete in the two-week event being held in India’s western city of Ahmedabad.
However, International Kabaddi Federation (IKF) chief Deoraj Chaturvedi, who is from India, said Pakistan has been denied entry because of a spike in tensions between the two nuclear-armed nations, The Dawn.com reported.
“This is not the right time to engage with Pakistan,” Chaturvedi said.
“Pakistan is a valuable member of the IKF but looking at the current scenario and in the best interest of both the nations, we decided that Pakistan must be refrained from the championship.”
Pakistan accused the IKF of unfairly targeting the country, saying both rival nations should have been excluded if there were security concerns.
“We have called a meeting to discuss this issue but let me tell you that a Kabaddi World Cup is no world cup without Pakistan,” said Pakistan Kabaddi Federation secretary Rana Muhammad Sarwar.
“This is just like a football world cup without Brazil,” Sarwar said.
Pakistan captain Nasir Ali said his players had been favourites to clinch the cup after defeating India at the six-nation Kabaddi Cup held in Pakistan in May and last month’s Asian Beach Games in Vietnam.
“We were hoping to win the world cup in India by beating India,” Ali said, adding that fans were being denied matches between the top two sides.
Hostilities between the nations have flared after India said last week it conducted “military strikes along Line of Control” in Kashmir.
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Examinations are not elections to which government is expecting normalcy: AJKSU
Srinagar: All Jammu and Kashmir Students Union (AJKSU) in a statement to media expressed dismay over the government’s decision to conduct final exams of 10th and 12th classes in next month. AJKSU President Syed Tajamul in a statement said the student examinations are not like state or parliamentary elections to which government will expect the normalization in political situation.
“At a time when there is political uncertainty in the Valley from the last 90 days, when Schools and Colleges remain totally closed and students were not able to attend the tuitions due to imposition of Curfew restrictions and strike calls, how could have students prepared themselves for the examinations,” the statement reads.
Tajamul said Govt should aware that examinations are directly linked with the bright future of students and as such students are neither mentally nor the situation presently allow them to sit in examinations, adding, the examinations are not like state or parliamentary elections to which government will expect the normalization in political situation.
Slamming a section of schools authorities who just uploaded syllabus on their school websites to act as they are fulfilling their responsibility, Tajamul said that it is unfortunate students are being asked by the school administration to download the content from website at a time when there is no possible internet facility to the students.
Tajamul said students are not only prepared academically, several students in nook and corner of the Valley are reportedly injured during the present turmoil in Kashmir. He said to go for examinations it will be compromise of the security of the students and in such case no parent will allow to their wards to go for examinations.
He appealed the government to go through the facts and read the writing on wall and see how students are protesting everywhere against the government’s decision to conduct the examinations. Tajamul hoped that government will look the matter seriously and will announce the postponement of annual examinations 2016. -
Schooling and arrests can’t go together, says Kashmir traders’ body
Taking a dig at Education Minister, Khan said Naeem Akhter is acting like a “programmed-robot” who knows only to issue provocative statements for reopening of schools.
Khan concerned over Yasin Malik’s health
Srinagar: Stating that arrests and schooling of youth cannot go together, the Kashmir Economic Alliance Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Khan on Wednesday accused the government of unleashing “terror across the Valley through daytime siege and nocturnal raids.”
Khan, who also heads the Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers Federation said, as if unleashing worst ever humanitarian crises in Kashmir was not enough that Mehbooba Mufti led government has been giving sleepless nights to the people of Kashmir and Chenab Valley through arrests and nocturnal raids.“Muslims of Kashmir and Chenab Valley are living under continuous fear whereas in the same territory armed Bhakts of RSS are given police protection to carry out marches, which are aimed at frightening the majority community of the state,” Khan said.Taking a dig at Education Minister, Khan said Naeem Akhter is acting like a “programmed-robot” who knows only to issue provocative statements for reopening of schools.“No doubts education is must for life. But let the minister be informed that education is subject to life and conducive environment. How will the youth who is wounded in government action, or arrested, or is into hiding to avoid arrest attend school or college?” Khan asked adding the motive behind running school bell was nothing but to pretend normalcy before outside world.Khan said the arrest spree was pushing people to wall and could have far reaching consequences.He appealed to the international community and the Indian civil society to intervene.Khan also expressed serious concern over the detention of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik at an interrogation center. “Why is he not being sent to central Jail? What if something untoward happens to him at interrogation center?” Khan asked.