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Showing posts with label Showkat Shah. Show all posts
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Friday, April 15, 2011

Two hundred thousands of people held a forceful demonstration in Srinagar

Srinagar, April 15 (Writer-South Asia): In disputed state of  Kashmir,  2 hundred thousands of people held a forceful demonstration in Srinagar, today, to condemn the murder of leading Kashmiri religious scholar, Maulana Showkat Ahmad Shah, who was martyred in a blast in Srinagar, last Friday, reports Kashmir Media Watch.

Those who participated in the protest included the APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Sheikh Muhammad Hasan, Agha Syed Hassan Almoosvi, Maulana Abbas Ansari, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Ghulam Rasool Malik, Javed Ahmad Mir, Hakim Abdur Rasheed and Maulana Ghulam Rasool Noori.

The speakers said on the occasion that the perpetrators of the killing of innocent people would be exposed at all costs.

Senior APHC leader, Shabbir Ahmad Shah addressing a public gathering at Pinglish in Tral urged India to withdraw its troops from the occupied territory and pave way for tripartite talks to resolve the Kashmir dispute.

The Director of Kashmir Institute of Strategic Studies, Khalid Jehangir, talking to the visiting Kashmir Study Group of Bharatiya Janata Party in Srinagar, said that the resolution of Kashmir dispute was vital to peace and stability in South Asia.

The Chief Minister of  Kashmir,  Mr. Omar Abdullah talking to newsmen in Jammu said that Panchayat election was not a referendum on Kashmir dispute. He maintained that talks were the only means to find a way out of the imbroglio on Kashmir.

Meanwhile, the Amnesty International in a statement issued in London demanded of the Indian authorities to release teenage Kashmiri boy, Murtaza Manzoor detained under draconian law, Public Safety Act.