Srinagar, March 25 -- Jammu Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) leader Ashraf Mir on Wednesday welcomed the release of former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and simultaneously demanded the release of other political detainees including PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti in wake of COVID-19 outbreak in J&K.

According to statement issued to Kashmir News Service (KNS), Mir observed that lodgment of hundreds of political detainees who were put under preventive detention on mere suspicion after August 5, 2019 should be shifted back to Jammu and Kashmir from various states of the country.

"The situation that has emerged after outbreak of COVID-19 warrants that these political detainees be shifted to J&K and released immediately so that their families are not subje...