Mir detained after anti-UK protest by JKLF

Srinagar, June 1. (PTI): Acting Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Javid Ahmad Mir was taken into preventive custody today along with five others during a demonstration over reported remarks of British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on Kashmir and Indo-Pak stand-off.

The JKLF activists were detained at Abi Guzar in the heart of Srinagar at about 10.30 in the morning as they tried to march towards Residency Road violating prohibitory orders, official sources said.

"No nuclear war", "We want peace, Mr Jack Straw", "Kashmir is a creation of Lord Mountbatten", "Mr Jack Straw don't call us terrorists...," read some of the placards and banners carried by JKLF activists.

Straw during his visit to Islamabad recently declined to make a distinction between freedom fighters and terrorists as defined by Pakistan saying one country's freedom fighters were terrorists for the rest of the world.

Prior to the demonstration, Mir said that the demonstration was organised in support of JKLF demand to avert a nuclear war in the region and find a solution to the Kashmir issue.