In Occupied Kashmir, massive protest demonstration marked with complete shut down were held in Srinagar and several other towns and cities against anti-Muslim outrage and economic blockade by Hindu zealots of Jammu.
Thousands of people spontaneously took to the streets in Nowhatta, Habba Kadal, Lal Chowk, khanyar, karfali mohalla, nawab bazar, zaina Kadal and Chanpora areas of Srinagar, raising anti-India and pro-liberation slogans. Tension was stoked by the death of an innocent youth was hit by a police tear gas shell in Srinagar, yesterday. Hundreds of people were injured in day long pitched clashes between the protesters and Indian troops, who used teargas and batons to disperse the Proters. Enraged people blocked roads, set vehicles Ablase and pelted police personnel with stones. Protests were also staged in Pulwama, Thanamandi, Darhal and Surankote. On the other hand, the APHC after an extraordinary meeting of its executive council today announced that extremist Hindu organizations in league with the congress were working on a nefarious plan to form a separate Jammu Desh. The meeting was presided over by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and attended by Maulana Abbas Ansari, Professor Abdul Ghani butt, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Bilal Ghani Lone and sheikh Abdul Aziz. The aphc leaders expressed grave concern over the attacks on the Muslims by Hindu extremists in Jammu and their Threatenng to the Muslim community to evacuate the region. Later, an APHC delegation led by the chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq visited Miasuma to express solidarity with the bereaved family of the youth martyred in troops teargas shelling during a protest in Srinagar yesterday. In Srinagar this morning the Chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir liberation front, Mohammad Yasin Malik sat on a fast-unto-death till The Hindu extremists were completely reined in. Senior Kashmiri Hurriyet Leader, Syed Ali Gilani was put under house arrest by the puppet administration on the second conservative day, today. Lawyers took out a procession in Srinagar that was led by the president of the bar association, Nazir Ahmad Ronga. Meanwhile, Hindu hooligans continued anti-Muslim riots in Jammu setting ablase the houses of Muslim community and threatening it to leave the region. An Indian trooper committed suicide by shooting himself with his own service rifle in rajouri, taking the death toll of such killings among the troops to one hundred and five since January 2007.
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