Srinagar
In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the authorities continue to impose curfew and strict restrictions to prevent people from holding anti-India demonstrations on Youm-e-Istehsal, on the completion of India’s illegal actions of 5th August, last year.
The occupied territory has already been under military siege since August 05, last year, when Narendra Modi-led fascist government of India repealed the special status of Kashmir. The authorities have sealed most of the roads and market places. Announcements were made on loudspeakers wherein people were asked to stay inside their homes. No movement of people is being allowed.
Meanwhile, complete shutdown is being observed in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir as a mark of protest against continued military siege and Modi regime’s nefarious plans to change the demographic profile of the territory.
Call for the strike has been given by the veteran Hurriyat leader, Syed Ali Gilani, and supported by almost all Hurriyat leaders and organizations. Markets and business establishments across the occupied territory are shut while public transport is off the road.
Pakistani flag was hoisted on main road Bemina on the outskirts of Srinagar city. Posters with ‘Go India go back’ slogans were seen pasted on walls, pillars and polls in various areas of Srinagar and Tral.
Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control, in Pakistan and the world over observed, today, the 5th of August, as Youm-e-Istehsal, to denounce illegal, immoral and unconstitutional revocation of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir’s special status by Modi fascist government on this day, last year.
The day was marked by complete shutdown in the occupied territory to protest against the continued military siege and Modi regime’s nefarious demographic apartheid plans. Call for the strike was given by the veteran Hurriyat leader, Syed Ali Gilani, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference and supported by all pro-freedom leaders and organizations. All shops, markets and business establishments across the occupied territory were shut while public transport was off the road.
Meanwhile, the authorities continued to impose curfew and other restrictions in the territory to prevent people from holding anti-India protests and other pro-freedom programmes. All main roads were sealed with barbed wires. Despite curfew and restrictions, Pakistani flag was hoisted at many places in Sringar and other towns. Posters with ‘Go India Go Back’ slogans were seen pasted on walls, pillars and polls in various areas of Srinagar and Tral.
APHC General Secretary Molvi Bashir Ahmed, Young Men’s League and Tehreek-e-Wahdat-e-Islami in their statements in Srinagar strongly condemned curfew and other restrictions imposed by India in the Kashmir Valley to prevent anti-India protests. Molvi Bashir Ahmed said the Kashmiris have been fighting for their basic rights for the past over 72 years and hoped that with patience and struggle they would defeat the tyranny of India. He said it was on August 5, 2019 when India caged in the entire population of Jammu and Kashmir in their houses besides lodging thousands in notorious jails.
Renowned Srinagar-based jurist and former head of the law department in the Kashmir University, Dr Sheikh Showkat in a tweet message said that Kashmiris remained besieged but not defeated. He said it is not material resources but conviction and ideology that sustain a nation through turbulent times.
Prominent Kashmiri journalist Gowahr Gilani in his TV report on one-year military siege of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir said that politics had come to a halt after the Modi government’s action on August 5, last year. He said that ground realities in Kashmir had changed to an extent that even pro-India politicians who were asking for finding out the Kashmir solution within Indian constitution had been left with no choice after this move.—KMS
