ISLAMABAD – A complete shutdown is observed in Sopore town of northKashmir’s Baramulla district to pay tributes to more than 60 civilianskilled by the Indian troops on this day in 1993.According to Kashmir Media Service, all shops and other businessestablishments are closed while a skeletal movement of traffic is witnessedon the roads in the town. Hundreds of residents offered congregationalFateha for the martyrs at the mosques in the town. Call for the strike wasgiven by the Joint Resistance Leadership.Members of the civil society and traders gathered at the martyrs’ graveyardand offered special prayers for the victims of 1993 massacre.On the fateful day of January 6, 1993, the personnel of Border SecurityForce had gone berserk after an unknown person allegedly snatched a rifflefrom a soldier killing more than 60 civilians and razing over 400structures including residential houses and shops to the ground in Soporetown.Meanwhile, a complete shutdown is observed in Chursoo and Tral on thethird consecutive day following the killing of three youth by Indian troopsat Gulshan Pora Tral area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Reports saidthat all shops and other business establishments in both Chursoo andGulshanpora areas of Awantipora are closed and a thin movement of trafficis seen on roads.
Compete shutdown in IOK against Sopore massacre in which 60 civilians were martyred by Indian troops
