35th PSA on Masrat Alam quashed

Chairman of Indian Kashmir's Muslim League and senior separatist leader of the hardline faction of the All Parties Hurriyat Confrence (APHC) Masrat Alam addresses a news conference in Srinagar on June 5, 2008. Alam, who heads the hardline Muslim League advocating Indian Kashmir's merger with Pakistan called for the boycott of upcoming state elections in Kashmir. Violence has declined in Kashmir in the past four years since India and Pakistan, who hold the region in part but claim it in full, started a peace process. AFP PHOTO/Tauseef MUSTAFA (Photo credit should read TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images)