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Yasin Malik denounces raids, arrests in IOK

ISLAMABAD,(APP): The Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation
Front (JKLF), Muhammad Yasin Malik has strongly condemned the police operation against pro-freedom leadership terming it as most undemocratic, uncivilized and unethical behavior of India and its puppets in the territory.
Muhammad Yasin Malik, who was arrested by Indian police to prevent
leading protest, said that the spree of arrests, house arrests, restrictions, nocturnal raids and harassments were clear signs of frustration of the authorities,reported KMS.
Yasin Malik said that by putting all opponents behind bars and
suppressing their voices, the so-called Mufti regime had shown its real
dictatorial face. He said such oppressive measures cannot deter Kashmiris from perusing the path of truth and resistance and so-called rulers.
He said that people of Jammu Kashmir through today’s peaceful protest
strike had shown their anger against the proposed conspiratorial plots of the puppet rulers of constructing Israeli type settlements for Pandits and
soldiers to grab more Kashmiri land, change its demography and turn majority
into a minority.
Meanwhile, police arrested JKLF Vice Chairman Showkat Ahmad Bakhshi and
district president Pulwama Javed Ahmad Butt from their residence in raids.
Police also raided the residences of JKLF leaders Noor Muhammad Kalwal,
Muhammad Yasin Butt and Bashir Ahmad Kashmiri and harassed.