Kashmir has been under a tight security clampdown since New Delhi rescinded the region's autonomy in August AFP/Tauseef MUSTAFASRINAGAR: Indian authorities have extended the detention of two former Kashmir chief ministers, held for the past six months under a security clampdown, using a law allowing for them to be locked up for two years without charge, police said on Friday .
Separatist militants have been fighting some 500,000 Indian forces in the territory, demanding independence or to join Pakistan which also controls part of the Himalayan region. The legislation was used against a third former chief minister Farooq Abdullah, the father of Omar Abdullah, in September to keep the 82-year-old under house arrest.The PSA was introduced in the 1970s to prevent timber smuggling in Kashmir but since the uprising erupted in 1989 it has been used to detain thousands of people, activists say.
Mufti's daughter Iltija Mufti slammed use of"the draconian PSA" by the government."Question is how much longer will we act as bystanders as they desecrate what this nation stands for?" she said on Twitter.
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