SRINAGAR – In occupied Kashmir, dozens of people were injured when Indiantroops used brute force on peaceful protesters in Srinagar today.

According to Kashmir Media Service, people took out a pro-freedom andanti-India rally after Juma prayers ended at historic Jamia Masjid inNowhatta area of Srinagar.

The participants of the rally raised slogans in favour of freedom andagainst India.

The Indian troops deployed in the area fired pellets and teargas shells todisperse the protesters, triggering clashes between the demonstrators andthe troops.

Chairman of Hurriyat Forum, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, in a tweet whilecondemning the use of force against the protesters said the heavydeployment of Indian forces’ personnel outside the grand mosque leads totension and agitation in the area.

Earlier, addressing a gathering at Jamia Masjid, Mirwaiz Umer Farooqexpressed serious concern over increasing tension between Pakistan andIndia on Line of Control and Working Boundary and urged the two countriesto settle the lingering Kashmir dispute.

People also staged demonstrations in Arwani area of Islamabad districtagainst the arrest of several youth by the Indian police during nocturnalraids.

On the other hand, the Kashmiri detainees arrested by India’s NationalInvestigation Agency and Enforcement Directorate and lodged in Delhi’snotorious Tihar Jail have written a letter to the Director General ofPrisons and a court in New Delhi to lodge them together in a single cell orat least separate them from other prisoners who are in jail in criminalcases.