Complete shutdown was observed in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) against anti-Muslim activities of extremist Hindu outfits – Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal and Shiv Sena in Rajouri and other areas of Held Jammu region.
Call for the shutdown had been jointly given by the trade bodies while the All Parties Hurriyat Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik had supported it, KMS reported on Sunday.
Shops, business establishments and educational institutions remained closed while movement of traffic on the roads was very thin.
The activists of Jammu and Kashmir Salvation Movement held demonstrations in different areas of the held territory against the burning of a flag with holy verses by the Hindu fanatics in Rajouri.
In a statement, senior Hurriyat leader Shabbir Ahmad Shah said that India should read writing on the wall that it would never succeed to crush the liberation sentiment of the Kashmiri people and it must settle the Kashmir dispute at the earliest for its own good.
The forum patronised by the veteran Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Geelani expressed serious concern over the continued harassment of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat’s District President for Kupwara Muhammad Yousuf Lone and his family members by a major of Indian occupation army at Karalapora in Kupwara.
On the other hand, one civilian was killed and six persons including an Indian army man were injured when unidentified persons hurled a grenade at an army vehicle at Mattan Chowk in Islamabad town on Sunday.