Tassaduq meets sis Mehbooba

SRINAGAR: Former chief minister and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti's brother Tassaduq Hussain Mufti on Friday met her at the government guest house here where she has been kept under detention, The News Now has learnt.
The meeting between the two siblings lasted for about 20 minutes, party sources said, without giving any further details.
Mehbooba has been detained at the guest house which has been designated as a sub-jail.
Cinematographer by profession, Tassaduq served as the tourism minister in Mehbooba-led Jammu and Kashmir government.
After her daughter Iltija, this is the first time Mehbooba has met anyone since August 5, when she and other top level and second rung mainstream leaders, including two former chief ministers -- Omar Abdullah and Farooq Abdullah, have been either detained or placed under house arrest.
On October 6, the state administration had allowed the PDP leaders to meet Mehbooba.
After making an announcement that a team of its leaders would meet party president on October 7 in Srinagar, the PDP had backtracked and deferred the meeting the same night.
While, no reason was given for the development, the split in party came out in public on October 7, when a senior leader alleged that those involved in the decision did not take on board the leadership in Jammu.
PDP General Secretary and former member of legislative council Surinder Choudhary had alleged that some "land grabbers and land mafia" within the party have taken the decision on the meeting.
"They are not the well wishers of the party and have in fact destroyed its base in Jammu. I do not know where the (PDP) meeting took place and who took this decision (sending a delegation to meet Mehbooba)," Choudhary had said.
Restrictions have been imposed across the Kashmir Valley since August 5 when the Centre announced its decision to abrogate Article 370 of the Constitution and to bifurcate the state into two Union territories. The restrictions were lifted in phases from the valley as the situation improved with the passage of time.
Mobile services were restored in Kashmir on Monday, but the SMS facility was snapped once again later that night due to apprehensions of the services being misused.
Internet services -- across all platforms - continued to be snapped in the valley, added.

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