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Pampore, Aug 16: All
roads led to Pampore Saturday. If there was anything visible in this saffron
town, it was a sea of people. Kashmir had assembled to pay homage to Sheikh
Abdul Aziz, the slain....
Pampore, Aug 16: All
roads led to Pampore Saturday. If there was anything visible in this saffron
town, it was a sea of people. Kashmir had assembled to pay homage to Sheikh
Abdul Aziz, the slain Hurriyat leader who fell to police bullets on a peaceful
march to Muzaffarabad.
People including women
and children from across the Valley assembled at Eidgah here, climbed rooftops,
trees and even sky-touching mobile towers to watch pro-freedom leaders.
On way to Pampore from
Srinagar, women offered milk, water and food to the people, who continuously
shouted pro-freedom slogans and waved green flags.
“We want freedom,” the people kept shouting.
Since morning people were waiting for the
arrival of the leaders. When Mirwaiz Umar Farooq’s cavalcade reached the spot,
women showered flower petals on him. Later youth carried Mirwaiz on shoulders
in a procession to Eidgah. People also gave rousing welcome to Muhammad Yaseen
Malik.
However, people could
not control their emotions when Syed Ali Shah Geelani reached there. They
huddled, shouted anti-India and pro-freedom slogans and escorted Geelani, who
was atop a vehicle, inside the jam-packed Eidgah.
However, not a single
cop or troopers was present on the road from Athwajan to Pampore. For hours
people kept thronging the town—by foot, on motorcycles and vehicles. The locals
had established langars at various places.
But more than food, people preferred to listen
to the pro-freedom leaders.
As Geelani started his speech, some youth
climbed atop all the mobile towers overlooking the Eidgah, and hoisted green
flags. Shouting pro-freedom slogans, people saluted the youth who stood atop
the cell towers and kept waving the green flags.
‘Sheikh Aziz Teri Azmat
Ko Salam (We salute the grandeur of Sheikh Aziz,” a group of youth carrying the
slain leader’s life-size posters shouted.
When the pro-freedom
leaders ended their speech, people started to move to their respective
destinations in huge processions. On seeing massive procession, two Army trucks
abruptly stopped at Athwajan. A group of women taunted the troops for “killing
the innocent people of Kashmir.”
Later some youth among
the procession paved way for the Army vehicles to leave the spot. At Pantha
Chowk the police diverted the procession through the Bypass. However those who
managed to move through the highly-fortified zone housing the 15 Corps
headquarters, shouted pro-freedom slogans and moved in a procession to
Shivpora. Till late evening, youths on motorcycles and vehicles moved through
city roads, shouting pro-freedom slogans.
KHALID GUL reports from
Islamabad:
More than 400 vehicles
ferrying about 20 thousand people left Islamabad for Pampore early in the
morning.
In Islamabad town,
despite incessant rains thousands of people from rural as well as urban areas
came out from their houses amid pro-freedom and anti-India slogans and arranged
their own vehicles; trucks, buses, lorries and cars to proceed towards Pampore.
They were seen off by thousands of people
including women and children who had assembled in groups at various places and
the town wore a festive look. The villages en-route Pampore offered water and
juices to the people.
People in large numbers
came out of their houses in Chinar town Bijbehara and proceeded towards
Pampore.
In Kulgam the scene was
no different as more than 100 vehicles ferried people to Pampore.
People were also seen standing on the roofs of
the vehicles carrying green and black flags and shouting pro-freedom and
anti-India slogans.
Sheikh Nazir reports
from Ganderbal
Hundreds of people from Ganderbal and other
adjoining areas marched to Pampore on Saturday in wake of the Pampore Chalo
call given by Hurriyats coordination committee.
Eyewitnesses told Greater Kashmir people
marched to Pampore in trucks, tippers, buses ,matadors and light vehicles from Fatehpora, Chuk, Dudarhama, Saloora,
Shalbugh, Beehama, Nagbal, Nunar, Garages and others villages in Ganderbal.
On way to Srinagar, people who had assembled
in the streets provided the marchers with cold drinks, fruits and other
refreshments.
Youth were busy in collecting relief in
mobiles and load carriers in different villages
of Tawheedpora, Dangerpora, Chenden, Sherpathri, Bamloora, Manigam,
Watlar, Wayil and other areas.
At least 20 TaTa mobiles took relief to
Srinagar from the Ganderbal tehsil on Saturday.
Meanwhile hundreds of people staged a massive
protest in Kangan market to press for the opening of Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road
for trade.
Masjid committees of
Gagangeer, Kulan, Gund and
local youth
of Chatergul, Katchnambal, Panzin, Baranbugh, Ari, kijpora, Ganiwan, Mamar and
other villages of Kangan area collected essentials and eatables and took it to
Jamia Masjid Srinagar for distribution.
(https://www.greaterkashmir.com)
