Srinagar, August 27 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, the people of Kashmir said they are apprehensive over the fate of liberation leaders arrested by Indian troops since Sunday night.

The killing of senior Hurriyet leader and People’s League Chairman, Shaikh Abdul Aziz on August 11 has made people of Kashmir valley more apprehensive over the fate of pro-resistance leaders. “We are concerned over the fate of our leaders,” said Mubeen Ahmed, a social activist of Gagribal, Srinagar.

The people are concerned over the health of liberation leaders despite occupied authorities’ assurance that they are in the best of their health and the government had conducted their medical check-up, as Syed Ali Gilani and Yasin Malik are heart patients.

Meanwhile, other top leaders, including Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Nayeem Ahmed Khan and Muhammad Salim Nanaji have been able to evade arrest. The leaders so far arrested include APHC Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, senior Kashmiri Hurriyet leader Syed Ali Gilani, Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front leader Mohammad Yasin Malik, Aasia Andrabi, Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai and Shakeel Ahmad Bakshi

The JKLF leader, Muhammad Salim Nanaji said that over 100 activists of pro-resistance parties have been arrested, so far, besides the top Hurriyat leaders. “It is not a curfew but a war-like situation and the Indian government is putting in every effort to suppress the aspirations of freedom of the Kashmir people”, he claimed.