Gilani accorded warm welcome at Srinagar airport
Curbs in Pulwama to thwart anti-India demos
In Kashmir, the veteran Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, was accorded a warm welcome at Srinagar airport on his arrival from New Delhi, today.
Syed Ali Gilani was received by a large number of people including Hurriyet leaders and activists at the airport. He was taken to Hyderpora in Srinagar in a big procession amid slogans, Pakistan Zindabad, Hum kia chahtey – azadi and Go India go. People also raised Pakistani National flag.
Addressing a mammoth gathering on the occasion, the veteran leader paid glowing tributes to the Kashmiri martyrs. He said that the day was not far off when the Kashmiris would get freedom from India. He strongly denounced the hue and cry created by Indian politicians and media over the release of senior Hurriyet leader, Masarrat Aalam Butt. Syed Ali Gilani said that the Kashmiri people would not allow separate towns for Kashmiri Pandits in the Kashmir Valley.
On the other hand, the puppet authorities imposed undeclared curfew and strict restrictions in Pulwama district, today, to thwart protests against the recent killing of two youth in a fake encounter in Tral. Indian police and paramilitary personnel were deployed in strength across the district to quell the protests, call for which was given by Hurriyet leaders and organisations. However, people defying restrictions at many places came out on the streets and staged anti-India demonstrations. The students of Kashmir University held forceful demonstrations at the university campus in Srinagar against the killings.
Meanwhile, Hurriyet leaders including Muhammad Musaddiq Aadil, Mukhtar Ahmad Waza, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Muhammad Yousuf Naqash, Abdul Majeed Wani, Yasmeen Raja and Farooq Mamoosi visited Tral and expressed solidarity with the families of the martyred youth. Other leaders and human rights activists including Aasiya Andrabi, Shakeel Bakhshi, Dr Nisar-ul-Hassan, Abdul Qadeer Dar and the Kashmir High Court Bar Association in their separate statements demanded an impartial probe into the cold-blooded murder of the youth.
The Islamic Students League, headed by liberation leader, Shakeel Ahmed Bakhshi, organized a photo exhibition in remembrance of the Kashmiri martyrs at Batamaloo in Srinagar. A large number of people from all walks of life took keen interest in the exhibition.
