SRINAGAR – In occupied Kashmir, normal life was crippled due to a protestshutdown against the killing of a school principal, Rizwan Asad, in policecustody at an infamous torture center, Cargo Camp, in Srinagar, yesterday.
Call for the strike was given by Joint Resistance Leadership and supportedby trade bodies and Kashmir Bar Association. All shops and other businessestablishments were closed while public transport was off the roads inSrinagar and other district headquarters of the valley. Forces’ personnelwere deployed in strength in all sensitive areas.
Mobile Internet and train services remained suspended in the occupiedterritory. The 28-year-old martyr, Rizwan Asad, was associated withJamaat-e-Islami.
The JRL has appealed to all segments of the society including traders,lawyers, Bar Association, civil society and others from different walks oflife to peacefully protest, tomorrow, against the custodial killing andassaults on Kashmiris.
On Friday after Juma prayers, people at all Masajid, Khanqahs and ImamBargahs will raise their voice against the custodial killing by NIA andcontinuing policy of oppression by India.
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Meanwhile, thousands of people participated in the funeral prayers of themartyred school principal in Pulwama district. Amid anti-India andpro-freedom slogans, Rizwan was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard inthe district. Hurriyat leaders and organizations in their separatestatements denounced the killing of Rizwan Asad in custody.
The All-Party Sikh Coordination Committee in a statement in Srinagardeplored that no headway had been made in the Chittisinghpora mass killingof Sikhs despite the passing of 19 years.