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KARACHI: “Every day in India-occupied Kashmir is like doomsday and today is no different. Today also the mothers there will mourn over the bodies of their martyred sons. And if they are lucky enough to be alive, they will find themselves being thrown into concentration camps there,” said President of Azad Jammu & Kashmir Sardar Masood Khan during a meet-the-press programme of the Karachi Press Club here on Saturday.
“It is such terrorism that the people of occupied Kashmir are facing on a daily basis. The honour of Kashmiri women is also at stake,” he said.
“And all these crimes against humanity are committed against the Muslim population of India-occupied Kashmir, who are in a majority there, but not for long if the Modi government and the Bharatiya Janata Party are allowed to carry out their agenda,” he said.
SRINAGAR: Indian security personnel search a scooter at a checkpoint during the strike on Tuesday. AFP
SRINAGAR: Businesses and shops remained closed in many parts of India-occupied Kashmir on Tuesday to mark the eighth anniversary of the secret execution of a Kashmiri activist in New Delhi.
Unlike in the past, no anti-India groups, which have long demanded the disputed region’s independence or its merger with Pakistan, called for Tuesday’s strike.
Hundreds of armed police and paramilitary personnel in riot gear patrolled the streets as most residents stayed indoors in Srinagar. Government forces at some checkpoints frisked pedestrians and searched private cars, while public transport was largely off the roads.