*SRINAGAR / NEW DELHI: *The Indian authorities tightened curfew and otherrestrictions to prevent people from holding a protest demonstration outsidethe UN office in Srinagar after Friday prayers against India’s provocativeAugust 5 move and its illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir.
Security forces were deployed at strength in many places to maintain lawand order amid unrest over India’s treatment of the region.
A call for the protest march was given by the resistance leaders throughposters appearing in Srinagar and other parts of the occupied valley onFriday.
“Preachers in all mosques [in their Friday prayers sermons] should make thepeople aware of India’s plans to change the demography of Jammu andKashmir,” handbills written in Urdu said.
The people were urged to join the march to convey to India and the worldthat the Kashmiris would not accept Indian occupation over their territory.The protest was also aimed at resisting the Indian attempt to change thedemography of IOK by settling outsiders in the occupied territory.
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On August 5, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist governmentscrapped the autonomy of Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, a Muslim-majorityregion that has enjoyed special status in the Indian constitution since thecountry’s independence from Britain in 1947.
The move enraged Kashmiris and has sparked tensions with Pakistan, raisinggrowing international concern over a flare-up in violence between the twonuclear-armed powers. -APP/AFP
