ISLAMABAD, Aug 21 (APP): Thousands of people raising pro-
freedom and anti-India slogans participated in the rallies held
across south Kashmir including Pulwama, Shopian and Islamabad
districts in Indian occupied Kashmir on Sunday.
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These rallies were held in Parigam, Chitragam and Dailgam
areas of the districts. People travelled on trucks, buses, cars
and walked on foot to attend the rallies, KMS reported.
The marchers also waved Pakistani flags on the occasion.
Religious scholars from all schools-of-thought and Hurriyet
leaders and activists including Ghulam Nabi Sumji, Mir Hafizullah,
Mohammad Yousuf Fallahi and Mohammad Yousuf Mir addressed these
rallies.
In a latest development, as many as 500 panchs, sarpanchs
and activists of different pro-India political parties, have
publicly resigned from their present positions in south Kashmir
and announced to join the ongoing Intifada in Kashmir.
The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Syed Ali
Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik in a joint
statement had appealed to all pro-India politicians, activists,
lawmakers, panchs and sarpanchs to resign and join people’s
movement for freedom.
The leaders also asked the United Nations and Organization
of Islamic Cooperation to take concrete steps to save lives of
innocent Kashmiris in the territory.
APHC General Secretary Shabbir Ahmad Shah in a statement
sought the role of UN and OIC to end grave human rights violations
in Kashmir.
Meanwhile, Indian authorities continued to impose curfew and
other restrictions in the territory for the 44th consecutive day,
today.
The authorities sealed all entry and exit points leading to
Lal Chowk area of Srinagar. The troops even did not spare
journalists and aimed guns at the staff members of Srinagar-based
Greater Kashmir and Kashmir Uzma in Srinagar.
The journalists were harassed, and given life threats. A prayer
leader was ruthlessly beaten up by the troops in Kupwara.
On the other hand, Indian troops in their stepped-up state
terrorism martyred three youth in Tangdhar area of Kupwara
district, today. The army claimed that the youth were killed
during an encounter in the area.
An anti-India rally led by the Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir
Peoples Freedom League, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, was held in
Muzaffarabad, today.
The participants of the rally urged the United Nations to
force India to abandon its illegal occupation over Jammu and
Kashmir.