Srinagar: In occupied Kashmir, Indian police arrested the Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Muhammad Yasin Malik, after he tried to march towards the UN office in Sonwar area of Srinagar, today.
Call for the march was given by the joint resistance leadership comprising Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik to demand the mortal remains of prominent martyred liberation leaders, Muhammad Maqbool Butt and Muhammad Afzal Guru. The two leaders were hanged by India in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail and remain buried in the premises of the prison.
The police took Muhammad Yasin Malik into custody outside the mosque of Dastgeer Sahab (RA) in Sara-i-Bala area of Srinagar when he tried to lead the march.
Meanwhile, the police arrested the Chief Organizer of Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Freedom League, Imtiyaz Ahmed Shah, when he was going to the office at Rajbagh in Srinagar, today. The JKPFL in a statement strongly denouncing the police action demanded immediate release of its leader.
