In occupied Kashmir, complete shutdown will be observed, tomorrow, to mark the Kashmir Martyrs’ Day, the 13th July.
Call for the shutdown has been given by the Joint Resistance Leadership to reiterate the urgent need for a peaceful and just resolution of the Kashmir dispute and to put an end to repression against the Kashmiri people and Hurriyat leaders. The JRL has appealed to the people to conduct a march towards the Martyrs’ Graveyard at Naqashband Sahib in Srinagar and offer prayers for the martyrs collectively.
It was on the 13th of July 1931 when the troops of Dogra Maharaja had killed 22 Kashmiris, one after the other, outside Central Jail in Srinagar during the court proceedings against one Abdul Qadeer who had asked Kashmiri people to defy the Dogra rule.
Meanwhile, the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Gilani, and other Hurriyat leaders including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai in their statement paid glorious tributes to the martyrs of 13th July.
