The authorities placed Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, chairman of the moderate Hurriyat group, under house arrest on Wednesday to prevent him from attending a separatist` meeting over government plans to set up colony for ex-servicemen in the state. The Mirwaiz was placed under house arrest in his uptown Nigeen residence, police said in summer capital Srinagar. Mirwaiz Umer was scheduled to attend a separatist called meeting to discuss the strategy for what the separatists call “resisting the government plans to form a Sainik (Ex-servicemen) colony in Kashmir”. Separatists have also called…
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