Srinagar, April 25 (KMS): In Srinagar, the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was arrested today at Dalgate while he was leading a motorcade participated by thousands of protesters. He was proceeding from Jamia mosque to Sonawar to handover a memorandum to the UN Observers Office.

The protests were staged on the occasion of Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh’s visit to Jammu. The Indian troops stopped the motorcade at Dalgate where hundreds of Hurriyet leaders and activists were arrested. Several protesters were injured when the troops resorted to aerial firing, heavy lathi charge and excessive tear-gassing. The protesters raised high pitched anti-India and pro-liberation slogans on the occasion.

Earlier, APHC leaders Maulana Abbas Ansari, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Bilal Ghani Lone and Nayeem Ahmed Khan were put under house arrest to prevent them from leading the protests. Shaikh Abdul Aziz was taken into custody along with 55 Hurriyet activists near Zero Bridge in Srinagar. The occupation authorities stopped and thoroughly searched buses plying towards Srinagar from different district headquarters and detained hundreds of people. Despite all these strict measures thousands of people succeeded in converging on Jamia masjid in Srinagar.

Addressing Juma congregation in Srinagar, the APHC Chairman deplored Indian intransigence over resolving the Kashmir dispute reminding Indian Prime Minister of zero implementation on his promise of zero tolerance against human rights violations.