Kashmiri separatist leaders put under house arrest
Separatists Yasin Malik, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Syed Ali Shah Geelani are the leaders kept confined to their residences. Their houses have been barricaded.
Pakistan's National Security Advisor Sartaz Aziz is scheduled to meet his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval in New Delhi on August taking up an agenda which is largely focused on countering terror.
But Pakistan's invitation to the Kashmiri separatist leaders for a meeting with Aziz has sent ripples across the political circle in India, which, however, will go ahead with the programme for the NSA-level talks viewing the Pak move as an attempt to irritate India and derail the conference.
Last July, India called off talks after Pakistan consulted Kashmiri separatists before a meeting of Foreign Secretaries.
At a meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif in Ufa in July this year both sides agreed to resume dialogue.
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