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Print Print 2020-02-10

IOK hit by general strike

Indian-occupied Kashmir was hit by a general strike on Sunday called by the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) to mark the anniversary of the death of a Kashmiri man who was executed for his part in an attack on India's parliament in 2001.
Published 10 Feb, 2020 12:00am

Indian-occupied Kashmir was hit by a general strike on Sunday called by the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) to mark the anniversary of the death of a Kashmiri man who was executed for his part in an attack on India's parliament in 2001.

The JKLF on Thursday called for strikes on Feb. 9 and Feb. 11 to observe the anniversary of the death of Afzal Guru, and then that of its founder Maqbool Bhat. Shops and businesses were shut on Sunday, while there was little traffic on the roads in occupied Srinagar and other parts of Indian-occupied Kashmir.

Indian troops have erected iron barricades and laid concertina wire in parts of the region to block roads, with armed soldiers in full riot gear patrolling the streets to prevent any protests, a government official said. He said low speed mobile internet, which was restored last month, had also been shut down as a precautionary measure.

Last month, India's Supreme Court rebuked the government for shutting down the internet and telecommunications in occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Indian police, meanwhile, have launched legal proceedings against JKLF for calling the strikes.

The JKLF was banned by India last year as part of a massive clampdown in Indian-occupied Kashmir after an attack on Feb. 14 in which 40 Indian troops were killed.

Its offices were closed and main leaders, including its chairman Yasin Malik, were detained. On Feb. 9, 2013, Afzal Guru was hanged after the Supreme Court upheld a verdict that he was involved in a 2001 attack on parliament. Maqbool Bhat was hanged in New Delhi's Tihar jail on February. 11, 1984, following his conviction for the killing of a police official.

Copyright Reuters, 2020

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