Quds and Kashmir Day will be observed in Indian occupied Kashmir on Friday to draw world attention towards the fact that people in both the places have been deprived of their inalienable right of self-determination. Call for the observance of the Day has been given by the All Parties Hurriyet Conference.
APHC Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq will address a big congregation at Jamia Masjid on the occasion and other Hurriyet leaders will highlight the issues of Kashmir and Palestine at different shrines, mosques and Imambargahs, Kashmir Media Service reported. On the other hand, Acting Chairperson of Dukhtaran-e-Millat, Rifat Fatima, in a statement issued in Srinagar expressed serious concern over the deteriorating health of the illegally detained party Chairperson Aasiya Andrabi.
She said that despite the advice of doctors, the occupation authorities were not providing Aasiya Andrabi with proper medical facilities at Srinagar Central Jail. Senior APHC leader, Shabbir Ahmed Shah in a statement in Srinagar strongly denounced the arbitrary detention of Kashmiri youth by Indian police. Indian troops, in their fresh acts of state terrorism, martyred three more Kashmiri youth, two of them in Lachipora and Dardhaji areas of Handwara and one at Gurez in Bandipore.
The killing at Gurez raised the number of martyred youth to 13 since Saturday besides killing of an Indian army officer in the area. Residents of Mispora village of Pulwama took to streets to protest against the thrashing of locals by the police. The agitating people blocked Shopian-Pulwama road for many hours.