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Kashmiri separatists under house arrest ahead of Indo-Pak NSA level talks
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Kashmiri separatist leaders, who were invited by Pakistan to meet its National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz when he comes to India for talks, were placed under house arrest on Thursday.
Kashmiri separatist leaders, who were invited by Pakistan to meet its National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz when he comes to India for talks, were placed under house arrest on Thursday.
Hurriyat leaders Yasin Malik, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Syed Ali Shah Geelani are said to be in house arrest.
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Pakistan High commissioner Abdul Basit invited separatist leaders, including Hurriyat hardliner Geelani and other leaders for a reception being hosted by him for Aziz at Pakistan House, in New Delhi’s Tilak Marg in the evening on August 23.
Despite the “latest provocation” by Pakistan, India is going ahead with plans to hold the NSA-level talks.
India had last year cancelled Foreign Secretary-level talks with Pakistan after its High Commissioner invited separatist leaders for a meeting ahead of the talks.
Doval is scheduled to meet Aziz here for talks on terrorism-related issues for the first time on August 23 in New Delhi, as decided in a meeting between Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif last month in Ufa in Russia.
India is expected to present strong evidence of terrorism emanating from Pakistan highlighted further by recent attacks in Gurdaspur in Punjab and near Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir.
India's case is bolstered by the capture of Mohammed Naved Yakub, a Pakistani national and a LeT operative, who carried out an attack on a BSF bus near Udhampur.
In his early twenties, Naved is from Pakistan's Faislabad area. During the talks, India is expected to share evidence provided by Naved to prove that he is a Pakistani national and crossed-over from Pakistan to carry out terror attacks in the country.
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