Ten more innocent Kashmiri youth martyred

Srinagar, October 02 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, Indian troops, in their fresh acts of state terrorism, martyred eight more innocent Kashmiri youth in Kupwara, Ganderbal and Bandipora districts.

Five youth were killed by the troops in Machil area of Kupwara while dead bodies of three others were recovered from the debris of a residential house destroyed by the troops in Kangan area of Ganderbal.

Earlier, an Indian policeman was killed and several others were injured in an attack in Kangan. One youth were killed in Gurez in Bandipora.

On the other hand, a civilian, who was injured on September 16 when Indian troops fired upon peaceful protesters at Puthka in Sopore, succumbed to his injuries in a hospital in Srinagar, today. Thousands of people including Hurriyet leaders participated in the funeral of the martyred at his hometown. They raised anti-India and pro-liberation slogans.

The All Parties Hurriyet Conference Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party, Jammu and Kashmir Peoples League, Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Khawateen Markaz, Jamaat-e-Islami of occupied Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir Salvation Movement, Kashmir Liberation Front-R and Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Freedom League in their separate statements condemned the seizure of newspapers and beating of media-persons by Indian policemen and paramilitary troopers in Srinagar.

APHC leader, Ghulam Ahmed Mir in a statement in Jammu said that the resolutions passed by the United Nations formed the basis for peaceful and permanent resolution of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the Kashmiris’ aspirations.

In Brussels, the Chairman of Kashmir Centre, Barrister Abdul Majeed Tramboo in a statement said that the Kashmiri people had been rendering sacrifices for securing their inalienable right to self-determination and not for perks and packages. The Executive Director of Kashmir Centre London, Professor Nazir Ahmed Shawl in his statement said, Jammu and Kashmir is the UN mandated disputed territory and its political future is yet to be ascertained.

More than 200 people held a demonstration at Normacot in City of Stoke-on-Trent in UK to protest Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir.