ISLAMABAD: Normal life remained affected in Indian occupied Kashmir for the 131st consecutive day on Wednesday due to the strike against illegal Indian occupation and ongoing Indian brutalities in the territory.
According to KMS, shops, fuel stations and other business establishments were remained shut down, while traffic was off the road in Srinagar and other districts of the Valley. Schools, colleges and universities also remained closed.
The joint Hurriyet leadership had called for anti-India strike.
All Parties Hurriyet Conference in a statement issued in Srinagar condemned the recent killing of a 21-year old youth Rizwan and shelling on his funeral procession by Indian forces.
It said that Indian forces recognized as the beasts and rogues in uniform were killing Kashmiris by bullets and pellets and even crushing them to death with their vehicles.
Senior APHC leader Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi Al-Safvi in a statement criticized RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat’s assertions that India is a Hindu Rashtra, and added that these remarks had utterly exposed the fictitious character of so-called secular India.
Dukhtaran-e-Millat in a statement while referring to Indian brutalities in Kashmir said that the murderer and the murdered and the oppressor and the oppressed were like the two shores of a river which can never unite.
Hurriyet leaders Nayeem Ahmad Khan and Qazi Yasir in their statements demanded shifting of illegally detained prisoners from Jammu to the Valley. Qazi Yasir warned authorities of serious repercussions against deteriorating health of the illegally- detained party leader Moulana Sarjan Barkati.