Srinagar: Reacting to a recent ban by the government of India to Yasin Malik led JKLF, the Jammu and Kashmir former chief minister and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said that Yasin Malik renounced violence as a way of resolving J&K issue a long time ago and he was treated as stakeholder in a dialogue initiated by then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

“Yasin Malik renounced violence as a way of resolving J&K issue a long time ago. He was treated as a stakeholder in a dialogue initiated by then PM Vajpayee ji. What will a ban on his organisation achieve? Detrimental steps like these will only turn Kash into an open air prison,” Mehbooba tweeted.

Earlier, the centre banned the Jammu and Kashmir’s Jama’at-e-Islami outfit, and now the Yasin Malik led Jammu and Kashmir Liberation front (JKLF) organization.