Pakistan Arrests Kashmiri Leader, His Party Says

July 4, 2001 - 0:0
ISLAMABAD Authorities in Pakistan-ruled Kashmir on Tuesday arrested a pro-independence Kashmiri leader, Amanullah Khan, his party said. The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) said Khan, its chairman, was arrested in Kotli town of Pakistan-ruled Kashmir while he was addressing a public rally there. No comment from the state police was immediately available. A JKLF statement faxed to Reuters in Islamabad said Khan had arrived in Kotli on Tuesday morning to meet some 50 party activists detained there for about month when the local authorities issued an order expelling him from Kotli district.