Srinagar, Oct 19 (KNS): The activists and leaders of Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) Thursday staged a protest in Srinagar against the government’s “failure” to stop braid chopping incidents in Kashmir.
Leaders and activists gathered outside JKLF office Abi-Guzar and marched towards Lal chowk.
Holding placards in hands and raising slogans against braid chopping incidents, protesters condemned these attacks.
Among those who participated in today’s protest program included Zamrooda Habib, Showkat Ahmad Bakhshi, Ghulam Qadir Baigh, Ghulam Rasool Dar Eidhi, Hakim Abdul Rashid, Farooq Ahmad Sodagar ,Imtiyaz Hiader, Siraj ud din Mir, Muhammad Yasin Butt, Zahoor Ahmad Butt, Sheikh Abdul Rashid, Advocate Yasir Ahmad Dalal, Muhammad Yousuf Naqash, Muhammad Yasin Ataiee, Nisar Hussain Rather, Muhammad Sideeq Shah, Bashir Ahmad Kashmiri, Ishfaq Ahmad Khan, Imtiyaz Ahmad Shah, Abdul Hamid Alaie, Muhammad Sideeq Hazari, Sahil Ahmad War, Farooq Ahmad Sheikh and Firdous Ahmad Shah and many others.
Meanwhile, JRL including Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Muhammad Umer Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik in a statement issued here said that “attacks on our mothers, sisters and daughters is not acceptable to us and if these attacks do not stop immediately, we will have no choice but to launch a peoples protest against it.”
Calling for peaceful protests tomorrow on 20th October 2017, after Friday prayers, against these continuing attacks on Kashmiri women, JRL leadership said that “growing attacks on women and ugly acts of braid chopping are a direct attack on our dignity and no Kashmiri will tolerate these attacks anymore.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel”
JRL leaders said that Kashmiri mothers, sisters and daughters are under attack from some hidden enemy. “We as a nation are living in an unrelenting horror and worry but so-called rulers, their police and other agencies remain absolutely naïve about it. The rulers are busy riding scooters and arranging music concerts and their forces and agencies are calling this menace as mere frenzy,” they said.
“Hundreds of our sisters have been left shaken by unidentified assailants and police and forces who take no time to identify even masked protesters and take no time in finding the hidden faces behind every happening and are punctual while crushing the peaceful political activities till now claim no breakthrough. This ignorance is actually proving that entire matter is doubtful and situation extremely startling,” they said.
Emphasizing on the need of unity to fight this menace, JRL leaders said that while dealing this threat, “we should enhance our society based vigil and deal with nobility. Joint leadership appealed people to hold peaceful protests tomorrow on Friday, 20th October 2017, after Friday prayers against these growing attacks on women and raise their voices against the hidden assailants.” (KNS)