SRINAGAR: Hurriyat leadership including Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and others have appealed to the people of the territory to observe complete shutdown today (Monday) to reaffirm the pledge to continue the mission of their martyrs till the achievement of the inalienable right to self-determination.
It may be recalled that on the 13th of July 1931, the troops of Dogra Maharaja had killed 22 Kashmiris outside Central Jail in Srinagar during the court proceedings against Abdul Qadeer, who had asked Kashmiri people to defy the Dogra rule. Since then, Kashmiris have been observing 13th July as Kashmir Martyrs’ Day.
The APHC in a statement in Srinagar said 1931 mass movement was Kashmiris’ first collective struggle against the centuries-old autocratic rule and those killed on 13th July are considered to be the first martyrs of the ongoing freedom movement. It also called for a march towards the Martyrs’ Graveyard at Naqashband Sahib in Srinagar to pay homage to the martyrs of 1931 who are buried there.
In occupied Kashmir, Indian police arrested senior Hurriyat leader and Chariman of Tehreek Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir, Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai and booked him under the draconian Public Safety Act (PSA) in Srinagar, today. Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai was arrested from his residence at Baghaat Barzulla in Srinagar in the wee hours of Sunday.
“Authorities have booked Ashraf Sehrai under Public Safety Act”, a top police officer confirmed to media men in Srinagar.
Sehrai’s son, Junaid Sehrai, was martyred by Indian troops during a cordon and search operation along with an associate at Nawakadal area of Srinagar recently.”He was wanted in multiple cases,” Occupied Kashmir’s Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh said.Indian police during massive operation also arrested several Jamaat-e-Islami members in Islamabad district while a Kashmiri student studying MBBS in Pakistan who went home due to Coronavirus COVID 19 was also summoned by Indian Army in Kupwara.Meanwhile, Hurriyat leader, Ghulam Mohammad Khan Sopori in a statement issued in Srinagar strongly condemned the slapping of the draconian Public Safety Act on the ailing Chairman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir, Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai after his illegal arrest from his residence in Srinagar, calling it purely political revenge. He said that the puppet administration could not discourage the Hurriyat leaders and workers through illegal detentions. He demanded immediate release of Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai and other political detainees.–Agencies
