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Peerzada Ashiq

Kashmir University PhD scholar arrested for 'highly provocative and seditious' magazine article

The J&K State Investigation Agency (SIA), constituted to investigate militancy-related cases, on Sunday arrested a Kashmiri scholar for his write-up published in 2011 by the magazine, The Kashmiri Walla.

The arrest was made after the SIA conducted raids on the office and house of arrested ‘The Kashmir Walla editor Fahad Shah in Srinagar’s Rajbagh and Soura area, and also the residence of scholar Abdul Aala Fazili in Humhama. Mr. Fazili, who has a Masters in Pharmaceutics, is at present a PhD scholar in the department of pharmaceutical sciences at Kashmir University. 

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