Police in Indian Kashmir said they had detained on Wednesday the organiser of a seminar that was to be addressed by phone by top militants, including one blamed for the Mumbai attacks. Ahsan Untoo, the head of Human Rights Forum, a local rights group, was detained in a raid on a hotel an hour before the start of the event in occupied Srinagar.
Senior Kashmiri leader Javed Mir was also taken to a nearby police station. "We have detained Untoo and Mir. We will not allow the seminar to take place," a police officer told AFP on condition of anonymity. The seminar was to discuss the "role of pro-freedom leaders vis-a-vis the Kashmir issue" and all leaders in held Kashmir had agreed to participate.
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