Srinagar, Sep 09 (KNS): Amid curfew, restrictions and curbs, the government once again used excessive force to stop Kashmiri Muslims from offering Friday congregational prayers at the main Masjids, Khanqahs, shrines and Imam Barahs and for the ninth consecutive Friday, people were barred from offering congregational prayers at Kashmir’s historic mosque, Jamia Masjid Srinagar, the Hurriyat (M) spokesman said such totalitarian measures by the ruling regime are among the worst form of assault on the religious rights of Muslims of the valley.
Expressing strong resentment over disallowing of press conference of veteran resistance leader, Syed Ali Geelani on the ongoing situation, by police with force, the spokesman said that gagging and caging the resistance leadership is the only response left with the frustrated regime.
Hurriyat (M) spokesman said Geelani’s revelation in the press release about a “kill list” of resistance leaders activists and prominent Kashmiri personalities belonging to different sections of society supporting the people struggle, by the Government of India (GoI) and its local collaborators that they would be targeted would have serious consequences for which GoI itself would be squarely held responsible .
Asking people to be cautious, the spokesman said during 1990s too, under a well-planned conspiracy, prominent political and religious leaders of Kashmir, intellectuals, writers, journalists, doctors and lawyers were killed and the state would often blame unidentified gunmen for these assassinations and the irony is that none of these unidentified gunmen have been identified till this day.
While more forces are being sent to the valley to kill and torture people the spokesman Appealed to the nations and people that believe in justice and humanity, international human rights organizations, United Nations Organisation (UNO), Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and other international bodies to play come forward and play their role in ending the killing spree and collective torture being inflicted upon Kashmiri civilians by the Indian forces.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel
Meanwhile, on the occasion of the annual Urs of Shah-e-Hamdan, Mir Sayid Ali Hamadani (RA), senior Hurriyat leader and Jammu Kashmir Awami Action Committee (AAC) General Secretary, Ghulam Nabi Zaki paid glowing tributes to Ameer-e-Khabeer at Khankah-e-Moula Srinagar.
Speaking on the occasion, he told the religious gathering that incarcerated Mirwaiz -e-Kashmir continues to be under arrest at a sub jail and his political and religious activities continue to be banned for the past two-and-a-half months while people are stopped from offering congregational prayers for nine continuous Friday as the ruling class had waged a formal war against the resistance leadership and freedom-loving people by executing the plan of genocide of Kashmiris to crush their freedom struggle.
On the occasion, Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Sheikh Abdul Rashid and Mohsin Alameen International Trust leader, Bashir Ahmad Kant in their addresses condemned the continued arrest of the Hurriyat (M) Chairman and other leaders and called for immediate release of the Mirwaiz and other resistance leaders before Eid-ul-Adha.
Meanwhile, the massive public gathering at Jenab Sahab Soura protested against the arrest of the Mirwaiz and condemned the government for keeping Kashmir’s religious head under continuous arrest.
Condemning the action of police and government forces for trying to suppress the voice of the freedom-loving people, the spokesman said they had unleashed a reign of terror by firing tear smoke shells, pepper grenades, PAVA shells, pellets and bullets at peaceful protestors and expressed strong resentment over night raids, arrests and ruthless thrashing up of people. (KNS)