In occupied Kashmir, Srinagar,
Islamabad, Shopian and other areas were rocked by forceful anti-India,
pro-freedom and pro-Pakistan demonstrations, today.
People waved Pakistani flags and raised
full-throated slogans, Jeewey Jeewey Pakistan and We Want Freedom, during a big
rally led by senior Hurriyet leader, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, in Islamabad town.
Pakistani’s National flags were seen fluttering on the rooftops of the houses
in the town. Addressing the rally, Shabbir Shah said that no amount of force
could stop the Kashmiri people from hoisting Pakistani flags in the territory.
Indian police arrested Shabbir
Shah and other Hurriyet leaders on the occasion. The action triggered clashes
between the protesters and the police. The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front
Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik, along with ten party leaders and activists
courted arrest at Budshah Chowk in Srinagar, today, against the denying of
political space to the pro-freedom leaders by the occupation authorities in the
territory.
He led a mammoth procession from
Nowhatta to Budshah Chowk amid slogans in favour of freedom and against India
before his arrest. People took to the streets in Nowhatta, Lal Chowk and Ciivl
Lines areas of Srinagar chanting pro-Pakistan, pro-freedom and anti-India
slogans. Indian troops resorted to heavy lathi-charge and excessive teargas
shelling at various places to quell the demonstrations.
Hurriyet leaders including
Muhammad Yousuf Naqash, Syed Bashir Andrabi, Yasmeen Raja, Hakeem Abdur Rasheed,
Muhammad Yousuf Mir and Muhammad Ramzan Khan led demonstrations in Shopian town
to press the demand for fresh impartial probe into the rape and murder of two
women by Indian men in uniform in Shopian on this day in 2009. Indian police
arrested the All Parties Hurriyet Conference leader, Javaid Ahmed Mir, when he
was leading a demonstration at Press Enclave in Srinagar against the Shopian
tragedy.
The leaders and activists of Jammu and Kashmir
Salvation Movement also staged a separate protest at Press Colony in Srinagar.
On the other hand, the puppet authorities continued to place the veteran
Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, under house arrest in Srinagar while Indian
police arrested Hurriyet leader, Zafar Akbar Butt, from his residence in
Srinagar.
The APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar
Farooq, addressing a gathering at Jamia Masjid in Srinagar urged India to
repeal draconian law, Armed Forces Special Powers Act, from occupied Kashmir
and stop suppressing the Kashmiris’ resolve for freedom at the dint of its military
might. Complete shutdown was observed in Badgam district after a mysterious
fire broke out at the shrine of Ayatollah Agha Syed Mehdi Al-Moosvi Al-Safvi
(RA).
