SRINAGAR: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, people staged a massive pro-freedom demonstration at the Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, today.
Thousands of Muslims converged at the Jamia Masjid, today, to offer congregational prayers on the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan. As the Juma prayers culminated, hundreds of youth raised high-pitched pro-freedom, pro-Islam and anti-India slogans.
People Democratic Party President, Mehbooba Mufti, in a tweet said that incidents like Indian soldiers barging into a religious place, profiling worshippers and shooting civilians at will without any fear of justice highlight the level of unaccountability pervasive across IIOJK. She said this while reacting to the yesterday’s incident in which several civilians sustained injuries after Indian troops opened indiscriminate fire on worshipers in Handwara area of Kupwara district.
Kashmir-based senior leader of Communist Party of India (Marxist) Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, in a media interview, said the Indian government is using multiple agencies as a political weapon to intimidate and silence political leaders in IIOJK. He, however, maintained that the Kashmiris would not be cowed down by such tactics. He also maintained that New Delhi’s claim of development in Kashmir is just an eyewash.
Indian police arrested a Kashmiri youth as Iqbal Mir in Dolipora Morh area of Baramulla district. The police dubbed him an over-ground worker of a mujahid organization to justify his arrest.
