SRINAGAR, April 20 -- Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik has been shifted to hospital following his hunger strike in Delhi for almost two weeks now, his family said on Saturday.

Reports quoting family members said that they were told by the authorities in Delhi, where they had gone to meet him, that he has been hospitalized after he fell ill due to hunger strike.

"It's twelve days he is on hunger strike and has been shifted to hospital in critical conditions," they said. According to them they were told that he has been shifted to medical facility in critical conditions where he has rejected to take medicines as well.

As soon as the news spread, all the shops in Maisuma downed their shutters as mark...