NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR: In a crackdown on pro-Pakistan elements, Jammu and Kashmir government on Sunday withdrew security and allied government facilities provided to four separatist leaders including Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and his colleague Abdul Gani Bhat for past several years.“In view of the recent terror attack on a CRPF convoy in Lethpora, Pulwama in which 40 CRPF men lost their lives, the government of India has emphasised that need to immediately review the wastage of police resources in providing unnecessary security to a large number of non-government persons in the state. This is particularly relevant in context of security provided to separatists and their sympathisers,” the J&K government said in an order. It added that “as a first step”, the security and allied arrangements provided to Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, Abdul Gani Bhat, Bilal Lone and Shabir Ahmad Shah, were being withdrawn with immediate effect.The order said a separate review would be held on Wednesday. Sources in J&K government added that the state police will review if there are any other separatists having government security and facilities and “will withdraw these immediately”.Those likely to be affected include Hashmi Qureshi, another separatist leader, with home ministry sources indicating that a decision had already been taken to withdraw cover to five leaders including Qureshi.The decision to strip separatists of security detail is a political signal that the Centre is set to follow a policy to no-tolerance towards Hurriyat leaders, some of whom face cases for terror funding in which NIA has filed a chargesheet. The trial in these cases is underway. One Hurriyat leader also faces a money laundering case which is being pursued by ED.The demand that the group which, while ostensibly working for “ self-determination” of Kashmiris has been unbashedly pro-Pakistan in its orientation, be stripped of security cover is quite old , and has been raised whenever Hurriyat have provoked by discarding the pretense of neutrality to support Pakistan as well as the jehadi terror that the neighbour has stoked. But governments, while indulgent, stopped short of heeding it; particularly because of the apprehension that Paksitan may get the secessionists bumped off and blame the killing on India: something which happened in the cases of Mirwaiz’s father who was killed by ISI-backed terrorists for not pursuing their agenda.Sajjad Lone’s father Abdul Gani Lone was also killed by Pakistan-backed terrorists after he turned inconvenient to generals in Rawalpindi.As per details put out by J&K government last year, it spent nearly Rs 10.88 crore from 2008 to 2017 on providing security cover to various separatist leaders including Mirwaiz, Bhat, Molvi Abbas Ansari, Bilal Lone, Salim Geelani and Fazal Haq Qureshi.“All security and any vehicles provided to them will stand withdrawn by today evening. No security forces or cover should be provided, under any pretext, to them or any other separatists,” said the official.A Hurriyat spokesman termed the government order a propaganda and said it would have no bearing on the Kashmir dispute or the situation on ground.The central government is also expected to take a strict stance on foreign travel by Hurriyat leaders. While not many of the top separatists are known to have a valid passport at present, with government ensuring that validity is restricted to one year, it is unlikely that their passports will be renewed anytime soon.Two of the top Hurriyat leaders, Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Yasin Malik do not figure in the list of those stripped of security detail as they do not enjoy state protection or any other government facility. Geelani is currently under house arrest.