Threatens Shopian Chalo If Curfew Not Lifted In 24 Hrs
SRINAGAR: Authorities on Tuesday detained Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and several of his colleagues when they tried to reach curfew bound Shopian to meet the kin of firing victims and the residents who are under curfew for past 11 days.
A Hurriyat spokesman said a large pose of police personnel cordoned Hurriyat headquarters at Rajbagh and detained Mirwaiz when he came out to board vehicle for Shopian Tuesday afternoon.
Hurriyat chairman was later taken to his Nigeen residence and put under house arrest, police sources said.
Earlier speaking to waiting media persons on the occasion, Mirwaiz said that if curfew was not lifted from Shopian in next 24 hours, Hurriyat Conference would appeal people to march towards besieged town. He further asserted that people of Shopian have been kept devoid of even basic daily needs like food and medicine. He said they would not be left at the mercy of gun totting Indian troops.
Terming imposition of curfew as a worst form retributive politics, Mirwaiz denounced the government for imposing continuous curfew in Shopian. He said force and oppression cant keep away Kashmiris from realizing their dream of Freedom. He said military oppression and occupation in Kashmir is an eye opener for those who are talking about the so called normalcy in Kashmir.
Other leaders who were detained along the Mirwaiz by the police were Mukhtar Ahmad Waza, Zaffar Akbar Bhat, Javed Ahmad Mir, Hakim Abdul Rashid, Syed Bashir Andrabi, Imtiyaz Reshi, Moulvi Abdul Rashid and Mohammad Shafi.
APHC had already chalked out a programme to visit Shopian in the aftermath of five innocent killings by Indian troops.
Earlier Mirwaiz and other Hurriayt leaders met the three member delegation of Canadian High Commission headed by Johany Forest, head of political and economic programme, and discussed with him the ongoing political and human rights situation in Kashmir.
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