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Hardline separatist arrested SRINAGAR, India, Tuesday (AFP) Police in Indian-administered Kashmir arrested a hardline pro-Pakistan separatist in a raid, his relatives said. Police raided the house of Masrat Alam, chief of separatist political group Muslim League in Srinagar, in the summer capital of Indian Kashmir Monday evening and arrested him. "They (the police) did not assign any reason as to why he was being arrested," Alam's brother Farooq Ahmed told AFP. He said Alam was kept in Srinagar's Shergarhi police station. "The policemen told me that he is to be shifted out of Kashmir valley on Tuesday," Ahmed said. Alam was released in August this year after serving a detention of 33 months. His organisation wants Kashmir to secede from India and merge with neighbouring Pakistan. Last month, Alam was nominated as interim head of a breakaway faction of Kashmir's main separatist alliance All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC). |
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