Srinagar: Indian soldiers killed six fighters in occupied Kashmir over in past 24 hours while the fighters fired dead a TV presenter and a police officer, officials said. on Thursday, after conviction of in regions best- well-known leader
Court of New Delhi on Wednesday ordered life in jail for Yasin Malik for financing “terrorist” activities and on several other accounts. The sentencing prompted warnings from politicians that it would contribute to alienation. in Muslim majority region.
Shops and businesses in Indian-held Kashmir remains closed for a second day of protests against sentence, and the police detained 10 people for throwing stones and for slogans outside Residence of Yasin Malik.
“Three militants of Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba were killed in two separate gun battles in [occupied] Kashmir since yesterday,” Kashmir Police Chief Vijay Kumar said, referring to the two organizations. “We have also lost a cop in one of operations.”
Kumar said Kashmiri militants were shooting dead 35-year-old TV social-media performer Amrin Bhat on Wednesday evening. They are said to have killed at least 12 people. people, mostly the police, in occupied Kashmir is year. One of in dead was a Kashmiri Hindu government employee thrilling controversial region tiny minority community.
More than 3,400 Hindus from occupied Kashmir issued. government jobs there in recent years as Prime Minister Narendra Modi government trying to lure them back in region after the attacks forced them to flee in the 1990s. But the Indians keep street relocation protests out of held Kashmir.
“We are not safe here,” protests Amit, a Hindu. government worker said. “Our colleague was shot dead in his office. Our demand it’s a move outside Kashmir because from time to time killing”.
Indian forces have already stepped up their operations killing 78 fighters this year, according to the administration of held Kashmir. Generally of last year193 killed, 232 shot dead in 2020.
At the same time, representatives of Pakistan and India engage in fresh verbal duel in United Nations Security Council on On Wednesday, after Pakistani Ambassador Munir Akram criticized the ongoing oppression of New Delhi in occupied Kashmir, drawing attention to a life sentence awarded by an Indian court to Kashmiri leader Yassin Malik.
Qasim Aziz Butt, who represented Pakistan, rejected India’s claim that Jammu and Kashmir was an integral part of it, stating that it was a disputed territory, according to all maps and maps of the United Nations. official the documents.
Pakistani spokesman blamed India of Existence one of in the world’s largest suppliers of state terrorism, especially against each of neighbors, including Pakistan. At home, state terrorism is unleashed against all minorities, he said.
Our Staff Correspondent in Muzaffarabad adds: Business community participants from Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) did not close the shutters down on Wednesday and joined people from other walks of a life in holding rallies and demonstrations to condemn the illegal sentence of imprisoned by an Indian court JKLF chairman Yassin Malik.
JKLF activists took out rally from Burhan Vani Chowk, culminating in the UN Mission of Military Observers. office where party leaders handed over over challenge memorandum for UN secretary generalimmediate life-saving intervention of popular Kashmiri leader.
Merchants, political workers, students and other citizens took out rally from Upper Adda to Bank Road in solidarity with Yasin Malik.
Published in Dawn, May 27, 2022
