ISLAMABAD – In occupied Kashmir, Indian troops in their unabated acts ofstate terrorism martyred 21 Kashmiris in the last month ofJanuary.According to reports, fourteen people were critically injured dueto the firing of pellets, bullets and teargas shells by Indian police andparamilitary personnel on peaceful demonstrators in the occupiedterritory. As many as 104 civilians, mostly youth and Hurriyat activists,were arrested and several of them were booked under black law Public SafetyAct.
The troops molested at least three women during the month.Meanwhile, theresidents of the Kashmir Valley continued to suffer immensely due tomilitary lockdown and broadband internet shutdown on 181st consecutive day,today.
A function was held at the residence of the martyred teenager, WamiqFarooq, to mark his martyrdom anniversary.
Addressing the gathering, Chairperson of Jammu and Kashmir Muslim KhawateenMarkaz, Yasmeen Raja, said that the Kashmiri youth were rendering theirlives for the sacred cause of freedom and their sacrifices would not beallowed to go waste.
Wamiq Farooq was martyred on January 31 in 2010 when he was hit by ateargas shell fired at him by the Indian police in Rajouri Kadal area ofSrinagar.
Meanwhile, a Srinagar court remanded the illegally detained Chairman ofIslami Tanzeem-e-Azadi, Abdul Samad Inqilabi, to judicial custody tillFebruary 20th of this month.
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Indian police had rearrested Inqilabi on Wednesday immediately after he wasreleased on court orders and booked him under draconian law, Public SafetyAct.
Mian Qayoom’s counsel, Advocate Zafar Ahmad Shah, termed the detention ofhis client as illegal and vague, saying that he has been detained undercharges leveled against him in 2008 and 2010.
Mian Qayoom had suffered heart attack in the Agra Jail on Wednesday.