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Srinagar: The separatist Hurriyat Conference is finished in Jammu and Kashmir but attempts are being made to keep it alive from Pakistan, Director General of Police Dilbag Singh said on Monday, adding that the militancy in the region is ”on crutches”. He also said that most of the madrasas (Islamic seminaries) are doing a good job but a tight vigil is being maintained on such institutions whose students have become militants in the past. ”Hurriyat (Conference) is finished in Jammu and Kashmir. To keep it alive, its chapter was opened in Pakistan and they are giving bandh calls from there,” the police chief told reporters on the sidelines of a cricket tournament organised by police for local youths in Kishtwar district. He said the people gave a ”tight slap” on their face by rejecting their bandh calls, which was evident from the fact that there was no strike on August 5 (the third anniversary of revocation of Article 370 and bifurcation of J&K into two Union territories) and August 15.  Hurriyat Conference, an umbrella body of separatist groups in J&K, which once enjoyed a dominant position in the valley, was made inconsequential after the jailing of several of its leaders in the wake of the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019, and the death of its main leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani in 2021. ”August 15 was celebrated in a befitting manner all across the J&K, from Kishtwar to Kathua and in the Kashmir valley with people hoisting the national flag on their homes. ”I recently visited the remote Karnah and Keran along the Line of Control (in north Kashmir's Kupwara) where the tricolour is still seen fluttering from the top of every house,” the DGP said. He said the people of Jammu and Kashmir want peace and they have understood the crimina ...