SRINAGAR – In occupied Kashmir, complete shutdown was observed, today,against the ban by India on Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front led byMuhammad Yasin Malik for its pro-freedom activities.
Call for the strike was given by Joint Resistance Leadership. All shops andother business establishments were closed across the valley while thetraffic was off the roads. Police and paramilitary forces were deployed instrength to prevent anti-India protests.
Yasin Malik is presently lodged at Kot Bhalwal Jail in Jammu underdraconian law, Public Safety Act. Crackdown operations have been launchedagainst the party leaders and activists in the territory.
Hurriyat leaders and organizations including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Agha SyedHassan Al-Moosvi Al-Safvi, Democratic Freedom Party, Dukhtaran-e-Millat andHigh Court Bar Association in their separate statements denounced the banon Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front. Meanwhile, thousands of peopleparticipated in the funeral prayers of a martyred youth, Tahir Ahmad Dar,in Sopore area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
Bodies of Tahir Ahmad Dar and another youth were recovered from the debrisof a house at the end of a three-day cordon and search operation by theIndian troops in Warpora area of Sopore, yesterday.
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Indian authorities booked two Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and a schoolprincipal under Public Safety Act in Bandipora and Shopian districts, andshifted them to jails in Jammu.
On the other hand, a 24-year-old Kashmiri student Absar Zahoor Dhar wasassaulted with iron rods by a group of Hindu extremists in Bengaluru inKarnataka state.