SRINAGAR – In occupied Kashmir, the people have started constitutingcommittees at street level to protect their mothers, sisters and daughtersfrom humiliation and molestation threat imposed by Hindutva forces inuniform and civies.
The move comes in the wake of some derogatory remarks of fanatic leaders ofcommunal Bharatiya Janata Party and other communal Hindu forces that theirmembers now could go to occupied Kashmir, settle in the territory and marrythe Kashmiri women.
These remarks were made by them following Narendra Modi-led Indiangovernment’s decision of repealing special status of occupied Kashmir byscraping Article 370 of the Indian Constitution on 5th of this month.
The committees in their posters and handbills said if the Kashmiris areunited at Panchayat and Block level, even devil cannot enter their areasand homes.
They urged the people to make small masajid in their streets as theirsitting and treatment places for interaction with each other and any kindof support their neighbours required.
They said, no member of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh will be allowed tosettle under the garb of Kashmiri Pandits.
The committees have maintained that Hurriyat leaders, religious andJamaat-e-Islami activists must remain in the lead role to protect thepeople and their great nation.
Meanwhile, the occupation authorities had further tightened curfew andother restrictions to prevent people from conducting a march towards the UNoffice at Sonawar in Srinagar, today, against India’s anti-Kashmir movesand its illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir.
Call for the march was given by the resistance leaders through postersappearing in Srinagar and other parts of the Kashmir valley to convey toIndia and the world that Kashmiris would not accept Indian occupation overtheir territory and Hindu culture.
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The march was also aimed at resisting the Indian attempt to change thedemography of Kashmir through settlement of the outsiders in the territory.
Due to severe curfew and restrictions, Juma prayers could not be held inmany mosques in Kashmir, Chanab and Peer Panchal valleys.
On the other hand, the Indian authorities have shifted thirty more Kashmiripolitical prisoners from the Kashmir valley to Agra central jail in theIndian state of Uttar Pradesh.More than seventy Kashmiri politicaldetainees have already been shifted to different Indian jails.
Meanwhile, a TADA Court in Jammu has issued fresh production warrants ofillegally detained Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman, MuhammadYasin Malik.
The court directed the authorities of New Delhi’s Tihar Jail to produce himon next date of hearing on 11th of the next month of false cases registeredagainst him almost thirty years ago.
Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir People’s Movement, Mir Shahid Saleem, in astatement in Jammu said Indian government had turned the occupied territoryinto a big jail where more than eight million people have been deprived ofall social, political and even religious freedoms.
In India, major opposition parties held a demonstration in New Delhiagainst continued clampdown in Occupied Kashmir demanding immediate releaseof political leaders and restoration of communication services in Indianheld valley. The Protesters shouted slogans in favour of release ofpolitical leaders detained in Jammu and Kashmir and restoration of telecomservices in the valley. The opposition parties unanimously rejected theimposition of continued curfew in occupied Kashmir and demanded immediaterelease of all political leaders.