Complete Shutdown Observed In All Valley Districts

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 05th Oct, 2016 ) : Complete shutdown Wednesday observed in all districts of the occupied Kashmir Valley on the 89th consecutive day. All the educational institutions, petrol pumps, business and other establishments remained closed, while traffic was off the road.

People including women and schoolboys defying restrictions held anti-India protest demonstrations in many areas. Many people were injured after Indian police used brute force and fired pallets on anti-India protest rallies in Shopian, Kupwara, Bandipora, Badgam and Islamabad districts.

Indian armed forces' personnel attacked many areas of Bandipora and Bijbehara, vandalized houses and damaged property worth millions of rupees. The forces also set paddy crops on fire. The All Parties Hurriyet Conference and Hurriyet leaders Muhammad Yousuf Naqash, Syed Bashir Andrabi, Mir Shahid Saleem and Syed Saleem Gilani in their statements praised the unanimous support extended by Pakistani political leadership from across the aisle to the Kashmiris' struggle for freedom.

The family members of APHC Chief Organizer Altaf Ahmed Shah told mediamen in Srinagar that the health of ailing detained leader was deteriorating with each passing day. Indian police during crackdown operations arrested more than 60 youth and booked two activists of Peoples League, Rafiq Ahmad Dar and Bablu Shah, under black law, Public Safety Act.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, in a statement in Geneva expressed serious concern over the human rights situation in occupied Kashmir. He reiterated the UN body's call for unfettered and unconditional access to Jammu and Kashmir to independently and impartially monitor the human rights situation in the territory.

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists Asia Program Coordinator, Steven Butler has asked the Indian authorities to immediately reverse the ban on publication of daily Kashmir Reader. He said this while talking to Hilal Mir, editor of the newspaper, over phone from Washington.