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Hurriyat leader’s charge against J&K government

SRINAGAR: Hardline Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Geelani on Tuesday accused the Jammu and Kashmir government of caving into pressure from the Centre in preventing him from going to Amritsar to attend a seminar organised to commemorate “Operation Blue Star.”

Mr. Geelani, who is under house arrest for the past three days, said at a news conference that the Union government could not stop the “people from demanding right of self determination be it in Punjab or Kashmir.”

He condemned his detention, saying: “the State government has taken dictation from New Delhi and stopped me as they know that I would talk about genuine and just rights of people.”

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