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Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Thursday alleged the Central government was not serious in resolving the Kashmir issue and was using the process of interlocution as a delaying tactic.
“The government is not serious about dialogue. It is using the process of interlocution as a delaying tactic,” the chairman of the hardline faction of the Hurriyat Conference said here.
“Despite promises to release political prisoners and protesters,arrests continue unabated in the state,” he said in a statement here.
Notwithstanding assurances from Union Home Minister P Chidambaram and appeals from three Central interlocutors to release political detainees,more leaders were being arrested under the PSA,the separatist leader said.
A person can be detained up to two years without trial under the PSA.
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