SRINAGAR: There were strong indications on Friday, a day after foreign envoys arrived in Jammu and Kashmir to assess the situation, that the government was working out a deal where MP and National Conference chairman

and his son, MLA and former J&K CM

, would be released from detention in exchange for their promise that they would take a break from active politics for a while.

Well-placed government sources said the offer was being readied and the Abdullahs may be approached.

A top government source said one idea was to find a way to nudge the Abdullahs to move for a while to the UK.

The sources said the two could, however, run their party's affairs through "agents in the UT of J&K".

The Abdullahs have been in detention since J&K was stripped of its special status on August 5 last year and later bifurcated into two Union Territories.

26 detainees released

This came even as the J&K government on Friday revoked the detention warrants of 26 people, including senior lawyer Nazir Ahmad Ronga of Nishat.

Ronga, a former Kashmir bar Association president, is a close associate of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, a separatist who is chairman of his faction of the Hurriyat Conference.

The revocation of the provisions of the J&K Public Safety Act of 1978 against the 26 came hours after the Supreme Court directed the J&K administration to review the curbs imposed in the UT while saying the freedom of speech and conducting business on the internet are protected under the Constitution .