Srinagar/June,11: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik and zonal president Noor Muhammad Kalwal were detained in Reban area of Shopian in south Kashmir on Sunday .
A statement issued by JKLF here Sunday said that Malik and Kalwal were coming out of the house of incarcerated Ummat-e-Islami leader Moulana Sarjan Barkati when police and paramilitary forces “cordoned” off the area and detained them.
Malik, the statement said, had visited Barkati’s home to meet his “innocent children”.
“The duo has been taken to some unknown police station,” the statement said, adding that the JKLF strongly condemns the detentions.