Srinagar, Feb 28: An executive council member of the All Party Hurriyat Conference, Sheikh Abdul Aziz, was released after about three years of detention today. Official sources said Shiekh Aziz, who was lodged in Jodhpur jail, was brought here in a special plane. He was released from he joint interogation center (jic) at Srinagar old airport this afternoon. Shiekh Abdul Aziz was one of the seven members of the executive council of the Hurriyat conference before it split.
The Shiekh, who heads the peoples league decided not to support any of the Hurriyat factions, one led by Syeed Ali Shah Geelani and the other by Maulvi Abbas Ansari.
Bureau Report