There were strong indications on Friday, a day after foreign envoys arrived inj&k to assess the situation, that the govt was working out a deal where former CMs Farooq Abdullah and son Omar would be released from detention in exchange for promise that they would take a break from active politics for a while. A top govt source said one idea was to find a way to nudge them to move for a while to UK.

Source: Govt readying UK deal for release of Abdullahs?