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ISLAMABAD, Aug 8 (APP): The joint resistance leadership has
called for a complete shutdown on Saturday, August 12, to protest
against the ongoing genocide of Kashmiris and the Indian plan to
abrogate Article 35-A of Indian Constitution that bars settlement
of outsiders in Jammu and Kashmir.
The resistance leadership comprising Syed Ali Gilani,
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik in a joint statement
issued in Srinagar said, “The ongoing killing spree, genocide of
young Kashmiris, hooliganism of Indian forces especially in south
Kashmir, NIA/ED terrorism and ploy to change the state subject law
in Jammu Kashmir will face stern resistance from Kashmiris,” KMS
reported.
The leadership urged people to protest against such anti-
Muslim and anti-Kashmir actions by Indian rulers who are backed by
extremist Hindu organization, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
They said, for the past many months, Kashmir has been turned
into a killing field and the massacre of young unarmed Kashmiris
has become the order of the day. “Our young ones are killed with
impunity and Indian trigger-happy forces, disrespecting every bit
of humanity, are seeing mutilating their corpses and taking
selfies with the dead bodies,” they deplored.
Gilani, Mirwaiz and Malik said propaganda is being waged
that Kashmiri youth who bear pellets and bullets on their bodies
are doing it for a few hundred rupees. “Moreover, a vicious
defamation campaign to malign the resistance leadership is
continuing on Indian media channels,” they said.
They also lashed out at the puppet Chief Minister, Mehbooba
Mufti, saying that she used to visit the bereaved families of
martyrs, especially in south Kashmir, and shed tears, but after
assuming power she had become the most brutal and had defeated all
previous records of oppression and tyranny in the occupied
territory.
The leaders said that by eradicating the state subject law
in Jammu Kashmir, Indian rulers backed by RSS wanted to fulfill
their dream of changing Jammu and Kashmir’s Muslim majority into a
minority as Israel had done in Palestine. “If these plots are not
stopped, we will be forced to call people of Kashmir to come on
roads,” they warned.