In Occupied Kashmir, protests demonstrations, marked with complete shut down, continued today, against the attacks on the Muslims and economic blockade by the Hindu communal groups of Jammu.
According to Kashmir media service, violent clashes continued between the protesters and the police in Srinagar. The police resorted to heavy Lathi Charge and severe tear gas shelling to disperse the protesters. The demonstrators on the occasion raised slogans like ‘ we want freedom’ and ‘Indian forces leave Kashmir’. A protest demonstration was led by APHC leader, Yasmeen Raja at Panta choke.All shops, business establishments, educational institutions, government and semi-government offices remained closed and traffic was off the road in srinagar, Budgam, Pulwama, Islamabad, Shopian, Tral, Handwara, Kupwara, Bejbehara and other cities and towns of the occupied territory.Indian police raided a hunger strike camp at Maisuma in Srinagar and arrested the chairman of Jammu and Kashmir liberation front, Muhammad Yasin Malik. A heavy contingent of police personnel shifted him to the intensive care unit of Soura hospital where his condition is reported to be critical. The JKLF chairman is on fast-unto-death since Tuesday and his health had considerably deteriorated. APHC leaders professor Abdul Ghani Butt, Maulana Abbas Ansari, Bilal Ghani Lone, Shaikh Abdul Aziz, Fazl Haq Qureshi besides Nazir Ahmed Ronga, Mian Abdul Qayoom and Bashir Ahmed Butt visited the hospital and expressed solidarity with the JKLF chairman.APHC leader, Ghulam Ahmed Mir addressing public gatherings at Poonch, Rajouri and Budhal areas urged people to maintain communal harmony and frustrate with unity the nefarious designs of Hindu extremists.On the other hand, the puppet authorities kept senior kashmiri hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani under house arrest for the third consecutive day, today.
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