The New Delhi-controlled State Investigation Agency and Indian paramilitary personnel continued house raids and searches in different areas of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, today, subjecting the people to severe harassment.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the SIA sleuths along with Indian paramilitary and police personnel conducted raids and searches on the third consecutive day, today, in several areas of Srinagar, Islamabad, Pulwama, Kulgam, Shopian and Baramulla districts. They took away mobile phones, laptops and house and bank documents during the raids. The residents of these areas told the media that the Indian forces’ personnel have made their lives a hell as they barge into the residential houses and terrorize the inmates, particularly women and children, during these operations.
Meanwhile, fearing that the gathering at the historic Jamia Masjid, Srinagar, could turn into an anti-India and anti-Israel demonstration, the occupation authorities locked the grand mosque on the 5th consecutive Friday, today, and disallowed people to offer Juma prayers. The authorities also once again placed senior leader of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, and noted religious scholar Agha Syed Mohammed Hadi, under house arrest. Senior APHC leader, Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi Al-Safvi, addressing a gathering in Badgam strongly denounced the Israeli aggression on Gaza.
A soldier of Indian paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle in Qazigund area of Kulgam district, today. Earlier, an Indian army man shot himself dead in Uri area of Baramulla district, yesterday. These incidents raised the number of such deaths among Indian troops and police personnel in the occupied territory to 584 since January 2007.
On the other hand, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference spokesman in a statement issued in Srinagar deplored that the Narendra Modi-led Indian government has waged a war on the unarmed people of occupied Kashmir to suppress their ongoing freedom movement. He appealed to the world community to play its role in resolving the Kashmir dispute at the earliest to save the Kashmiris from the Indian wrath.
In Muzaffarabad, speakers at a seminar expressed serious concern over the plight of illegally detained Kashmiri Hurriyat leaders and activists languishing in different jails of India and occupied Kashmir. The seminar was organized by the Youth Wing of Jammu and Kashmir Tehreek-e-Shabab-ul-Mu limeen, a constituent of APHC.—KMS
