SRINAGAR – In Occupied Kashmir, Indian troops in their unabated act ofstate terrorism martyred three more youth in Kulgam district on Sunday.
The youth were killed during a cordon and search operation launched byIndian army, paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force and SpecialOperation Group of police in Turigam area of the district.
The killings triggered massive anti-India protests in Turigam and adjoiningareas of the district. Hundreds of youth assembled in Turigam and shoutedpro-freedom and anti-India slogans.
In the meantime, a Deputy Superintendent of Police was killed and an armyMajor injured in an attack in the same area.
On the other hand complete shutdown marked by curfew-like restrictions wasobserved across the territory, today, against India’s brutal measuresincluding mass arrest, killings and attempts to repeal Articles 35A and 370of the Indian constitution.
Call for the strike was given by Joint Resistance Leadership comprisingSyed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik.
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All shops and other business establishments remained closed while trafficwas off the roads in all big and small cities of the Valley and in Banihalarea of Jammu region.
Curfew-like restrictions were imposed in Srinagar and other parts of theValley to prevent protests against the mass detentions. Mobile Internetservice was reduced in many parts of the territory.
Indian police arrested APHC General Secretary, Ghulam Nabi Samjhi anddozens of Jamaat-e-Islami activists during continued mass crackdownoperations on leaders of pro-freedom and religious organizations.