Complete shutter down strike in IoK against killing of Hurriyat leader
- By Web Desk -
- Nov 22, 2018
SRINAGAR: A complete shutter down strike is being observed in occupied Kashmir against killing of Hurriyat leader, Hafizullah, Kashmir Media Service reported on Thursday.
Educational institutions, business centres and transport is completely closed in the held valley to record protest against the killing of the Hurriyat leader, assassinated by Indian forces in Anantnag district of the occupied Kashmir.
The strike is being observed on the call of Joint Resistance Leadership comprising Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik.
On the other hand, the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Gilani has said that Indian secret agencies have started executing their plan to eliminate resistance leadership.
Addressing a press conference in Srinagar, he strongly denounced the targeted killing of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat leader, adding it seems the kill list prepared by the government of India and its agencies in 2016, which included names of Hurriyat activists, traders, intellectuals and journalists, is being implemented now.
Pakistan had strongly denounced the “vicious assassination” of Hafizullah Mir, by Indian occupation forces.
The Spokesperson of the Foreign Office, Dr Muhammad Faisal had strongly condemned the ruthless assassination of Hafizullah Mir in his tweet message.
The Kashmiri leader was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Achabal, an area of occupied Kashmir’s Anantnag district on November 20.
According to reports, the unidentified gunmen fired at the Kashmiri leader at his home in Budhra area of Achabal. He was rushed to a district hospital, but succumbed to bullet injuries.
In October, Maleeha Lodhi, the Pakistan’s ambassador to the United Nations, reiterated the call in the UN to establish a Commission of Inquiry to investigate grave human rights violations in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
The report issued on Kashmir by the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights in June 2018 had made a recommendation for such an inquiry.