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Srinagar, August 09 2013 (PPI-OT): In occupied Kashmir, people held forceful anti-India demonstrations immediately after they concluded Eid prayers in Srinagar, Sopore, Baramulla, Islamabad, Kishtwar and other areas of the territory. The protests continued after Jumma congregation.
Indian police personnel fired teargas shells and resorted to baton charge to disperse protestors who tried to march through the roads at Eidgah, Safa Kadal, Kawdara, Nowhatta, Nawakadal in Srinagar and many localities in Sopore, Baramulla, Islamabad, Kishtwar and other areas of the territory.
The protesters shouting high-pitched slogan, We Want Freedom, demanded that Indian troops should leave Jammu and Kashmir without any further delay. Dozens of people were injured after Indian police used brute force and fired bullets on protesters.
On the other hand, the authorities had placed the APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, other Hurriyet leaders including Syed Ali Gilani, Mohammad Yasin Malik, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Zaffar Akbar Butt and Mohammad Ahsan Untoo under house arrest preventing them from addressing public gatherings and offering Eid and Friday prayers, today.
APHC leader, Mukhtar Ahmad Waza was taken into custody when he left his home for Eid prayers and was lodged at Sheer Bagh police station in Islamabad.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who addressed a big Eid gathering at Eidgah over telephone, said that if India wanted peace in South Asia, it needed to resolve the Kashmir dispute, once and for all.
The Hurriyet leaders, including Professor Abdul Ghani Butt, Syed Agha Hassan Al-Moosvi, Maulana Abbas Ansari, Masroor Abbas Ansari, Javeed Ahmad Mir, Hakim Abdul Rashid and Qazi Yasir Ahmad addressed Eid congregations in Srinagar, Sopore, Islamabad, Pattan and Badgam.
They said that the uncertainty would continue to prevail in the region until the Kashmir dispute was resolved in accordance with the aspirations of Kashmiri people. They strongly condemned the house arrest of pro-freedom leaders on Eid-ul-Fitr and maintained that the action was a clear interference in the religious affairs of people.
Meanwhile, curfew was imposed and Indian troops and paramilitary forces called out in Kishtwar district after Hindu extremists attacked Muslim worshipers during Eid prayers in the area. Dozens of people were injured in the firing of Indian police and Village Defense Committee members on pro-freedom processions in the district.
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