KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
Massive pro-freedom rallies and protests were held in South Kashmir’s Kulgam and Islamabad on Friday soon after mandatory congregational prayers.
Reports and eye witnesses said that in Shangus, hundreds of people held protest rally after Friday prayers in Islamabad District.
The rally, reports said, was taken out from Jamia Masjid Shangus up to main market. The rally was led by Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Islamabad district chief, Mir Hafizullah.
People first raised pro-freedom and anti-India slogans in the Jamia masjid and then marched towards the main chowk amid sloganeering, reports said.
Mir Hafizullah later addressed the protesters and urged them to continue “resistance program and stay firm”, eye witnesses said.
Similarly, in Khudwani area of Kulgam district, youths blocked Islamabad-Kulgam road after Friday prayers.
The youths, as per the reports, raised anti–India slogans and “warned forces against arrests and damaging of property during raids”.
Reports said that the youths raising slogans in favour of resistance leader, Sarrjan Barkati, who had gained fame in south Kashmir in the current uprising. The protestors demanded his immediate release. Barkati has been booked under draconian Public Safety Act (PSA).
Meanwhile, forces fired teargas shells on protestors participating in another rally that was taken out after Friday prayers in Dooru town of South Kashmir, reports said.
According to the reports, forces fired teargas shells and one of which landed inside the house premises of Mohammad Ashraf Hajam. The tear smoke gas engulfed the whole house and the inmates fell unconscious and were shifted to sub-district hospital Dooru.
