SRINAGAR (KMS) – In Occupied Kashmir, a soldier of Indian Army was injured in a grenade attack in Pulwama on Saturday.
Unidentified persons lobbed a grenade on a CRPF bunker in Pulwama town, leaving one soldier injured.
Soon after the incident, Indian troops and police personnel cordoned off the area and launched a search operation.
Seeking resolution of Kashmir dispute not a crime: Mirwaiz
Chairman of Hurriyat Forum Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that seeking a resolution of the Kashmir dispute is neither terror nor crime.
Addressing a gathering in Srinagar on Saturday, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said that India should not criminalize the Kashmiris’ political aspirations which were rooted in history and principle of justice. He said that the Hurriyat leadership had always taken a realistic and principled stance and advocated dialogue among stakeholders to find an acceptable solution for all parties involved in the dispute and for friendship between Pakistan and India.
He said that the Hurriyat leaders had always advocated and would continue to push for dialogue as it was the way forward.
The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, in a statement issued in Srinagar, said that New Delhi should read writing on the wall that Kashmiris would not compromise on their fundamental rights including the right to self-determination.
Shabbir Shah’s wife Dr Bilquees Shah, in a statement, said that the property, which as per media reports had been attached, belonged to her and not her husband.
A large number of people including Hurriyat leaders and activists participated in a condolence meeting held at Mazar-e-Shuhada at Eidgah in Srinagar to pay tributes to prominent martyred Kashmiri freedom leaders, Ashfaq Majeed Wani, Shabbir Siddiqi, Dr Abdul Ahad Guru and Advocate Jaleel Andrabi on their martyrdom anniversaries. The members of High Court Bar Association abstained from work, today, to commemorate the martyrdom anniversary of noted Kashmiri human rights lawyer, Advocate Jaleel Andrabi.
On the other hand, in order to suppress the Kashmiris’ ongoing freedom movement, the Indian government has constituted a special group comprising top officers from police, intelligence, investigative and tax agencies to victimize and harass the pro-freedom people including Hurriyat leaders and activists in occupied Kashmir.
Meanwhile, a sub-inspector of Indo-Tibetan Border Police committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle at a camp in Kunzar area of Baramulla district on Saturday. This incident raised the number of such deaths amongst the Indian troops and police personnel to 424 in occupied Kashmir since January 2007 till date.
