Juma-tul-Wida was observed, today, as the Day of Al Quds to impress upon the international community to help secure the peoples of Palestine and Kashmir their inalienable right to self-determination.
Call for the observance of the day was given jointly by the All Parties Hurriyet Conference Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik. Resolutions passed in the rallies and demonstrations held across the territory urged the International community to play its role for settlement of the Kashmir and Palestine disputes.
The resolutions also opposed the Indian move to construct separate colonies for Pandits and Indian soldiers and demanded total ban on liquor sale in the territory. The participants carried placards reading anti-Israel and anti-India slogans. Pro-freedom were raised and Pakistani flag was hoisted on the occasion. Syed Ali Gilani addressing a rally at Baitul Mukarram in Baramulla over phone from Srinagar, Miwaiz Umar Farooq at Jamia Masjid in Srinagar and Muhammad Yasin Malik in Charar-e-Sharif said that time had come when the world nations should focus on resolution of the two world’s oldest disputes.
Indian troops barged into houses in Kulpora village of Kulgam district and abused, thrashed and dragged people out of their houses and subjected them to torture. The troops even did not spare elderly and women either. Several people were injured when police resorted to heavy tear-gas shelling on the protesters at Muran Chowk in Pulwama.
The authorities continued to place Syed Ali Gilani, Shabbir Ahmad Shah and Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai and Mukhtar Ahmad Waza under house arrest even on this sacred day, today.
Meanwhile, Indian troops in their unabated acts of state terrorism martyred twenty five Kashmiris in June 2016. According to the data compiled by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service, of those martyred, four youth were killed in fake encounters. During the month, 228 people were critically injured when Indian police and paramilitary personnel used brute force against peaceful demonstrators in the occupied territory while 346 civilians, mostly Hurriyet leaders and youth, were arrested.
