ISLAMABAD – In occupied Kashmir, Chairman All Parties Hurriyat Conference,Syed Ali Gilani, has expressed serious concern over the miserable plight ofillegally detained Kashmiri political prisoners languishing in differentIndian jails.
In a statement in Srinagar, today, he deplored that even during the holymonth of Ramadan, the Kashmiri detainees are kept in solitary confinementin small cells without basic amenities as unhygienic food and insufficientmedical facilities has made them to suffer miserably.
Ali Gilani appealed to the UN Human Rights Council, International Committeeof Red Cross and Amnesty International to visit the Indian jails and takestock of the ill-treatment meted out to the Kashmiri prisoners.
Meanwhile, complete shutdown was observed in Sopore town and its adjoiningareas in Baramulla district for the second consecutive day, today, to mournthe killing of a youth, Ishfaq Ahmed Sofi, by Indian troops.
The occupation authorities fearing students’ protests against the killingordered the closure of educational institutes in Sopore, today.
Communal Indian police personnel arrested five Kashmiri drivers atdifferent places on Srinagar-Jammu highway while they were transportingbovine from Poonch area of Jammu to the Kashmir valley.
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Indian troops launched a cordon and search operation in Panzgam area ofsouth Kashmir’s Pulwama district, today.
An unidentified dead body was recovered from river Jhelum in Parimpora areaof Srinagar, today.
Over 8,000 vehicles remain stranded at various places on the Srinagar-Jammuhighway, which was closed for the traffic on the third consecutive day,today, due to landslides and shooting stones at various places in Ramban.
Prices of essential commodities, particularly fresh vegetables and fruitbesides chicken and meat, have witnessed sharp increase during past fewweeks due to frequent closure of the highway and ban imposed by theauthorities on movement of civilian traffic on the road two days a week.