Srinagar : In occupied Kashmir, the Kashmir Resistance Day, today, was marked by complete shutdown and forceful anti-India demonstrations across the territory.
Call for observance of the Kashmir Resistance Day was given by the joint resistance leadership comprising Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik to protest the awarding of death sentence by an Indian court to Muzaffar Ahmad Rather of south Kashmir’s Kulgam district.
The puppet authorities deployed Indian troops and police personnel in strength in all major towns to prevent people from staging demonstrations against the court’s verdict. The authorities put Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Hilal Ahmed War under house arrest to stop them from leading the protests while Shabbir Ahmed Shah was already under house detention.
People took to the streets in Srinagar, Badgam, Ganderbal, Kangan, Bandipore, Hajin, Sopore, Baramulla, Islamabad, Bijbehara, Pampore, Pulwama, Shopian, Kulgam, Handwara, Kupwara and other areas and shouted pro-freedom, pro-Pakistan and anti-India slogans. They also waved Pakistani flags. The demonstrators were led by Hurriyet leaders including Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi Al-Safvi, Noor Muhammad Kalwal, Muhammad Yousuf Naqash, Mukhtar Ahmed Waza, Bilal Siddiqui, Qazi Yasir, Zafar Akbar Butt and Muhammad Yasin Attai. Indian police fired pellets and teargas and PAVA shells to disperse the protesters, injuring many people. Addressing the protesters, the Hurriyet leaders said that Muzaffar Ahmed was victimized just because he was a Kashmiri Muslim. They said that India side by side its military might was using judiciary to suppress the Kashmiris and to intimidate them into submission.
APHC leader and the Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Social Peace Forum, Advocate Devinder Singh, addressing a public gathering in Nagrota area of Jammu strongly condemned the unprovoked firing on innocent people by Indian Army in Samboora area of Pulwama, the other day.
Meanwhile, a delegation of Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party visited Soura Institute of Medical Sciences in Srinagar and enquired about the health of the ailing APHC Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani. The APHC spokesman, Ayaz Muhammad Akbar, in a statement said that Pakistani High Commissioner in New Delhi, Abdul Basit, called the ailing leader over phone and enquired about his health.
