JKLF CHAIRMAN MOHAMMAD YASIN MALIK ALONG WITH HUNDREDS ARRESTED. PROTEST RALLEIS IN MANY AZAD KASHMIR CITIES.
Today’s most peaceful and democratic and comprehensive start of quit Kashmir movement and various marches towards lal chowk and a complete shutdown has once again demonstrated that kashmiris will never budge before the oppressive measures by tyrants and will always resist the anti Kashmiri nefarious designs of all those who are anti Kashmir including RSS and BJP: Yasin Malik
Condemns the brutal killing of a youth at sopore.
Srinagar: Chairman JKLF Mohammad Yasin Malik, advocate Basher Ahmad Butt, Noor Mohammad kalwal, Showkat Ahmad Bakshi ,Mushtaq Ajmal along with hundreds were arrested by police at various places when they were leading marches towards Lal Chowk on the occasion of restart of quit Kashmir movement announced by JKLF . Despite crackdown, curfew, barricades, arrests, nocturnal raids and all kinds of oppression by police and forces, JKLF leaders and cadres all throughout the valley took out protest marches and treid to march towards Lal Chowk today. Police at all the places halted their march and arrested hundreds of JKLF leaders and workers including Chairman Jenab Mohammad Yasin Malik. JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik who had gone into hiding today surfaced at Maisuma and led a mammoth protest march towards Lal Chowk, hundreds including women ,youth and elders despite concentration wire barricades ,police and forces deployment in heavy numbers courage to gather around Yasin sahib and marched along with him . police had laid a close siege around the area tried to stop this march but participants resisted the police action for about an hour .police using excessive force arrested Yasin sahib along with Basher Ahmad Kashmiri, Irfan Ahmad khan, sheikh Mohammad Afzal, Owaise khan, Owaise Mushtaq, Feroz Ahmad Dar, Ghulam Mohiuddin, and Asfhfaq Hussain and whisked them away in police vehicles. Soon after this attempt JKLF leaders and workers led by senior leader and zonal president Noor Mohammad kalwal gathered in downtown Srinagar and marched towards lal chowk this procession was stopped by police near Bahaw ud din sahib and after heavy resistance Noor Mohammad kalwal, Basher Ahmad Rather Boya, Mushtaq Ahmad Wani,Fayaz Ahmad Mir, Nazir Ahmad Rather,Habibullah Dar,Basharat Ahmad Imtiyaz Ahmad Ganai and Mohammad Shafi Lone etc were arrested by the police. After this procession JKLF workers and leaders along with common people including many women gathered at Ziayarat Batamaloo sahib and started a march towards Lal Chowk .led by senior JKLF leader advocate basher Ahmad Butt this march was stopped by police near Reka Chowk. Advocate Basher A Butt, Showkat A Bakhshi, Mushtaq Ajmal, Mohammad Sideeq Shah,Syed Nisar Jeelani, Rafiq Ahmad War, Molvi Rashid, Nazir A Hajam,Mushtaq Ahmad ,Abdul Majeed, Sanaullah, Mohammad Haneef Dar,Imtiyaz Ahmad ,and Mohammad Hussein were arrested on the occasion by police. Similar kinds of processions were taken out by JKLF leaders from Pulwama, Islamabad, Sopore, and other places. These marches were stopped by the police and Javed Ahmad Butt, Tariq Ahmad , Fayaz A Khan, Mohammad Altaf Raina ( Pulwama), Javed Ahmad Malik, Ghulam Qadir Haider, Nazir Ahmad Khan,Mohammad Ishaaq Zalangam, etc( Islamabad) have been arrested by the Police. Siraj ud din Mir ,Abdul Rashid Magloo, and Farooq A hmad Dar led a Jaloos from sopore that was intercepted by police at new colony. In connection with today’s restart of “quit Kashmir movement” many rallies and sit in were organized by JKLF in Azad Kashmir also. These rallies were held in Mir Por, Kotli, Muzaffar Abad, Dheerkot ,Bagh, Palendri etc. JKLF leaders Abdul Hamid Butt, Hafiz Anwar Samawi, Khawaja Saif ud Din, Doctor Tawqeer Geelani,Raja Haq Nawaz, Advocate Sabir Ansari, Sajid Sideequi,Aftab Ahmad, Tawseef Jaral,Qari Iqbal,Basharat Noori, Gafoor Ahmad,Shabir Ahmad Lone,Suhail katariya.Jehangeer Mirza Javed Butt, Qari Naseer and Abdul Rehman etc participated in these rallies and sit in. terming these rallies and comprehensive protets from both sides of Kashmir as historic and eye opener JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik before his arrest while talking to media person said that today we are restarting quit Kashmir movement with a new passion and zeal. This day is historical and so is today’s protest and Kashmiris across the cities and villages of valley and Azad Kashmir have given a befitting reply to those forces which are inimical towards kashmiris and who want to snatch from us our national pride, our Muslim identity and weaken our freedom and resistance movement. Yasin sahib said that today’s most peaceful and democratic and comprehensive start of quit Kashmir movement and various marches towards lal chowk and a complete shutdown has once again demonstrated that kashmiris will never budge before the oppressive measures by tyrants and will always resist the anti Kashmiri nefarious designs of all those who are anti Kashmir including RSS and BJP. He said that the enemies of Jammu Kashmir are conspiring to destroy and snatch the “Muslim” identity from Jammu Kashmir and RSS and BJP are planning to declare Lakhs of outsiders (Non-Kashmiri) “refugees” (Sharnarthees) as the citizens of Jammu Kashmir to change the demography of Jammu Kashmir. Kashmiris cannot remain silent over this and will fight all these conspiracies and resist all these anti Kashmiri moves and motives. Yasin Malik thanked the people of Kashmir for their support and show of resistance and said that today’s united protest has once again proved the love of people of Jammu Kashmir with their freedom movement. It is worth to mention that from last many days a crackdown against JKLF has been going in which many JKLF leaders have been arrested. these include Master Sheikh Mohammad Afzal( vice chairman JKLF),Engineer Ghulam Rasool Dar Eidi ( general secretary) ,Mohammad Yasin Butt ( zonal senior vice president),sheikh Abdul Rashid (zonal general secretary), sheikh Khalid ,senior leaders and activists including Ghulam Mohammad Dar, Mohammad Ishaaq Ganai (Distt president Islamabad), Mohammad Ramzan Sofi, Mushtaq Ahmad Boitengoo, Mohammad Shafi Lone ,Mohammad Ayub Naikoo, Mohammad Rajab,Ghulam Mohammad Malik, Abdul Rashid Mir etc.
Meanwhile Yasin Malik has strongly condemned the indiscriminate firing on a protest march in Sopore in which a young man has been martyred and many have been injured. Yasin Malik while condemning this cowardly act by the Indian forces said that these trigger happy forces only know to kill innocents and today they have once again brutally killed another budding Kashmiri. Yasin sahib while paying tributes to the martyred youth prayed for the speedy recovery of the injured.