Srinagar: The police on Thursday took separatist leader Muhammad Yasin Malik into preventive custody ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day visit of Jammu and Kashmir beginning on Saturday.
Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL), an alliance of key separatist leaders including Malik, has asked the people to march on Lal Chowk, the historic square in summer capital Srinagar, on Saturday to register their protest against the Prime Minister’s visit and “show the world what we the people of the Jammu and Kashmir stand for”. It has also called for peaceful protests after Friday congregations on May 18 to mourn and protest the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and a one-day shutdown on May 21 to commemorate the “martyrdom” of separatist leader Mirwaiz Muhammad Farooq and Abdul Gani Lone. Both of them were gunned down by militants on May 21 in 1990 and 2002, respectively.
