–Held region holds strike against India’s decision to summon resistance leader
ISLAMABAD: Indian troops in their fresh act of state terrorism martyred two youth in Pulwama district of the held territory on Sunday.
The youths were killed during a cordon and search operation at Pinglish in Tral area of the district, the Kashmir Media Service (KMS) reported.
The High Court Bar Association at its executive body meeting in Srinagar condemned the summoning of Hurriyat forum chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and the son of APHC chairman Syed Ali Gilani by the Indian National Investigation Agency to New Delhi for questioning.
The bar association pointed out that by summoning Mirwaiz Umar Farooq the NIA was actually going to subject him to humiliation and intimidation only because he was spearheading the Kashmiris’ ongoing struggle for the right to self-determination.
Meanwhile, a shutdown was observed in downtown Srinagar and adjoining areas against the NIA summon to Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.
The call strike was given by the Srinagar-based Traders Coordination Committee, an amalgam of various trade bodies. The authorities had imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar city to prevent anti-India protests.
Most of English and Urdu newspapers on Sunday published blank front pages in protest against the unexplained denial by the Indian authorities of advertisements to the valley-based two leading newspapers— Greater Kashmir and Kashmir Reader.
The Kashmir Editors Guild held a protest demonstration at Kashmir Press Club in Srinagar against the ban on advertisements to the newspapers by Kashmir administration under Governor Satya Pal Malik. Senior editors and journalists took part in the protest to demand revocation of the ban.
Jammu and Kashmir Socio-Economic Coordination Committee at a meeting in Srinagar said that Kashmir was facing an undeclared economic warlike situation as a result of Indian policies.