While Geelani and another senior leader and executive member of Hurriyat, Abdul Gani Bhat, were booked under the Act for one month and taken to Srinagar central jail on Saturday, seven other Hurriyat activists were detained for six months and taken to Udhampur in Jammu, senior Hurriyat leader and chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Mohammad Yaseen Malik told reporters here last evening. However, an official spokesman when contacted, did not give details, but said they were booked under PSA for their alleged involvement in "anti-national activities".

Geelani and Gani were taken into preventive custody by police on September eight and September 14 for anti-election campaign in Kupwara and Srinagar, official sources said.

Malik called for a day's general strikeon September 28 to protest the detention of Hurriyat leaders. He termed as "ridiculous" the statement of External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh in the United Nations general assembly that Kashmir was an integral part of India.

Accusing the government of committing human rights violations in Kashmir and harassment of Hurriyat activists, he threatened the organisation would take "direct action" if it did not stop these activities. Asked what the direct action would be, he said it would be decided in the Hurriyat executive council meeting.

Meanwhile, six persons, including two militants, an ex-serviceman and his daughter, were killed in separate militancy-related incidents, while police arrested a militant and repulsed an attack on their camp in Jammu and Kashmir since Saturday.

Militants attacked the house of ex-serviceman Ghulam Ahmad Shah at Warildan-Asham last night and killed Shah and his daughter, an official spokesman said today.

Shah, former inspector in Jammu and Kashmir police, was shot frompoint blank range by the militants inside his house in Baramulla. His daughter tried to rescue him but was also killed by the militants, the spokesman said, adding his wife was seriously wounded in the incident.

The spokesman said two militants, one each at Tanghdar in Kupwara and Tipper Dhok-Sangla in Poonch districts were killed by the security forces during search operations last night and today. A rifle and a pistol were seized from the slain militant at Kupwara.

In a gruesome murder, militants kidnapped a 12-year-old boy Manzoor Hussain from his house at Gittian-Kanganwas in Dhar-Sarkari area of Rajouri district last night and later killed him.

Militants also shot dead a girl Gulshan Akhter in her house at Waripora in Safapora area of Baramulla in the wee hours of today, he said.

Movies taboo

SRINAGAR: Militants have asked cinema halls, video parlours and cable operators in the valley to shut down within two days after bombing Regal cinema on the first day of its reopening after adecade, "to uphold Islamic values in Kashmir." One person was killed and 19 were injured in the attack on the cinema hall on Friday. In another strike, ultras blew up the escort vehicle of Janta Dal (Secular) candidate for Anantnag parliamentary constituency Peerzada Abdul Hamid while he was campaigning in South Kashmir town of Tral. Hamid had a miraculous escape when a landmine planted by militants blew up his escort vehicle, wounding seriously eight CRPF personnel in the South Kashmir town of Tral today.