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March towards UN Observers’ Office tomorrow

Curfew, demonstrations continue in Srinagar

Srinagar, February 07 (KMS): In Srinagar, massive march will be conducted, tomorrow, towards the United Nations Observers’ Office at Sonawar to seek the world intervention on Kashmir. Call for the march has been given by the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.

The APHC Chairman, who continued to remain under house arrest for the fourth consecutive day, in a statement issued in Srinagar appealed to the people to massively participate in the march despite restrictions.

Ahead of the march, tomorrow, the authorities continued to impose curfew in Rainawari, Nowhatta, Safa Kadal, Maharaj Ganj, Khaniyar and other areas of Srinagar, today. Forceful demonstrations were staged at Brein Nishat in Srinagar against the recent killing of a student by Indian troops.

The authorities sealed the APHC headquarters by deploying heavy contingents of Indian troops around it. Indian police raided and vandalized the office of Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Khawateen Markaz in the city.  Hurriyet leaders including Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi and Mukhtar Ahmad Waza were placed under house arrest while Mohammad Abdullah Tari was taken into custody. Complete shutdown was observed in different towns of the occupied territory against stepped up Indian state terrorism.

On the other hand, veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, talking to media men in Srinagar over phone from New Delhi deplored that Indian intelligence agencies were spreading rumours of his death and severe illness to create confusion among the people of Jammu and Kashmir. APHC leader, Muhammad Azam Inqilabi in a statement pointed out that Indian troops had unleashed a reign of terror in the occupied territory to suppress Kashmiris’ liberation struggle.

Meanwhile, scores of postgraduate students, mostly females, from different area of the Kashmir valley, who had to appear in examinations at the Kashmir University campus, were thrashed by the Indian police and troops on way to the varsity.

Four persons were killed and another was injured when a bus, they were travelling in, skidded off the road and rolled down into a deep gorge at Jhakhani in Udhampur, today. Srinagar-Jammu highway remained closed for the second consecutive day, today.
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