ISLAMABAD – In occupied Kashmir, Eid–ul-Azha, today, was marked byanti-India, pro-Pakistan and pro-liberation demonstrations in Srinagar andother parts of the territory.

Despite stringent restrictions by the authorities, immediately after Eidprayers, people in large numbers took to the streets and shoutedhigh-pitched slogans.

Dozens of people were critically injured after Indian police personnelfired pellets, teargas shells and resorted to baton charge to quell theprotesters in Srinagar, Achajipora, Sopore, Palhalan and Kupwara areas.

Thousands of people led a march and hoisted Pakistan’s flag in Kishtwartown of Jammu region.

The United Resistance Leadership comprising Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz UmerFarooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik expressed serious concern over the use ofbrute force against the demonstrators and worshippers.

They denounced the occupation authorities for the plight of politicalprisoners languishing in different jails of the occupied territory andIndia.

The Joint Resistance leadership said that many people have been kept behindthe bars for years together and those booked by Indian agencies like theEnforcement Directorate and the National Investigation Agency were beingkept in solitary confinement and deprived of medical facilities.

They said that on one hand, New Delhi is employing ploys to change theMuslim majority character of the territory by trying to roll back statesubject laws while on the other, so-called legal notices and summons arebeing sent to the resistance leaders to push them into submission.