JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik detained

Srinagar: Police today detained JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik hours ahead of the funeral prayers in absentia for party founder Amanullah Khan, who died in Pakistan yesterday.

"Ahead of Gayibana Nimaz-i-Jinaza (funeral prayers in absentia) for JKLF supreme leader Amanullah Khan, Malik was arrested by police," a spokesman of the JKLF said in a statement.

The spokesman claimed that authorities have imposed "curfew" in Lal Chowk, Maisuma, Kokerbazar, Kothibagh, Abi Guzar, court road and other adjoining areas.

Amanullah Khan, one of the founders of pro-Independence JKLF, died in Rawalipindi, Pakistan, yesterday.