Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 9: Police today foiled a press conference of hardline Hurriyat Conference chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani that was scheduled to take place at his Hyderpora residence here.
A heavy posse of police led by senior officers had sealed Hyderpora area including a lane leading to his house by erecting spools of concertina wires. The police disallowed media-men to proceed towards Geelani’s house and were made to wait on Airport Road before asking them to leave from the spot.
It was not clear what Geelani, who has come under severe criticism after shutting his door to visiting parliamentarians recently, was supposed to say.
After police foiled the presser, the hardline Hurriyat released four-page long message of Geelani in which he has alleged that Government of India has formulated a ‘kill list’ “whereby they have identified separatist leaders and activists and those civil society members, business leaders, Government employees and journalists, who have not succumbed to their mechanizations”.
“This is a very serious issue,” Geelani said and warned of ‘serious repercussions’ of such ‘misadventure’. The octogenarian hinted at continuation of ongoing violent agitation in Kashmir and asked people to help needy at grass-root levels.
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