Srinagar, May 6 -- Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday wrote a letter to Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha seeking the release of Kashmiris detained by the security forces in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack.

Mentioning local Kashmiris' efforts to safeguard citizens following the Pahalgam attack, Mehbooba Mufti called the security agencies' actions a "sweeping and indiscriminate crackdown" on locals.

Mufti said that over 3,000 arrests and nearly 100 Public Safety Act (PSA) detentions have been reported since the Pahalgam attack. She added that such numbers reflect a "collective form of punishment."

"The response from various security agencies that have foll...