Defiant Kashmiris reject Indian Army appeal in Srinagar
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SRINAGAR - Defiant Kashmiris have rejected Indian Army appeal for not marching towards Army Headquarters.
Indian Army Sunday urged people not to march towards the headquarters of its Chinar Corps here on the call of separatists to protest the killing of seven civilians in an encounter in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The separatists, under the banner of Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) which consists Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik, had Saturday asked the people to march to the headquarters of the Army's Chinar Corps at Badami Bagh on Monday.
The call for the march came after seven civilians were killed and several others injured when security forces opened fire at an unruly mob that thronged the site of an encounter in south Kashmir's Pulwama district in which three terrorists and an army man were killed on Saturday.
In a statement on Sunday, an Army spokesman asked the people not to pay heed to the call by the JRL.
"The Army is always with the people of Kashmir and would foil all such evil attempts of -separatist-Pakistan nexus to pit the civilian population against the security forces. The public is once again advised not to pay heed to this call by JRL," it said.