Times of Islamabad

Campaign launched across the World to boycott Indian goods and products in protest against Kashmir lockdown

Campaign launched across the World to boycott Indian goods and products in protest against Kashmir lockdown

ISLAMABAD – Campaign launched across the World to boycott Indian goods andproducts in protest against Kashmir lockdown.

Different groups of Pakistanis, Kashmiris and Friends of Kashmir all acrossthe world have launched a campaign on social media urging the people toboycott Indian products in protest against continued lockdown imposed byNew Delhi in occupied Kashmir since 5th August, and the discriminatoryattitude meted out to the minorities in India.

The campaigners say that India is getting away with its crimes in occupiedKashmir on the basis of its economy and the world is turning a blind eyedue to its economic interests.

Meanwhile the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Gilanihas said that frustrated by the overwhelmingly growing public participationin the resistance movement, India in flagrant violation of theinternational law illegally and immorally, announced to annex occupiedKashmir into the Indian union.

Syed Ali Gilani in a statement in Srinagar said that to implement theannouncement made on August 5, India put the entire Kashmir region under anindefinite security lockdown and communications blackout.

He said that everything including schools, colleges universities, marketsand mosques was shut and telephone, mobile and internet services weresuspended.

Meanwhile, in India, authorities have cut cellphone access in parts ofDelhi and thousands of protestors nationwide defied bans on assembly ingrowing anger at a new citizenship law seen as anti-Muslim.

Police and demonstrators clashed in Uttar Pradesh state as security forcesbundled demonstrators including an internationally famous historian ontobuses in Delhi and Bangalore.

In India protest four people were shot dead, dozens injured and hundredsarrested, while authorities have banned gatherings in areas that togetherare home to hundreds of millions of people.