The Hurriyet leaders said that after the martyrdom of mujahid commander, Burhan Muzaffar Wani, the way state terrorism was at display in occupied Kashmir and the way Kashmiri civilians were being targeted to be killed, maimed and blinded by the forces, accusing Pakistan was not only a crude joke but stupid.
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In his message on the occasion of black day, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said that Kashmir was not an internal matter of India, and asked New Delhi to hold a plebiscite there to respect the rights of Kashmiris.
“The participants urged the Secretary General of the United Nations to encourage, facilitate and support efforts leading to a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue in accordance with the UN Security Council Resolutions to ensure resolution of this longstanding unresolved issue”, the Pakistan High Commission said.
“Pakistan is trying to destabilise India”, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said in the Lok Sabha during a discussion on the situation in Kashmir.
An Indian paramilitary soldier interrogates a couple on their way to hospital before letting them go during the 12th straight day of curfew in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, July 20, 2016. Burhan Wani is the second young leader for Kashmiris after Ashfaq Majeed whose assassination triggered one of the worst uprisings in Indian Occupied Kashmir in the early 90s.
At least 45 people are now confirmed dead and over 2,000 others injured following days of violent clashes between protesters and Indian forces.
Observing that the situation in the Valley was normalising gradually, he singled out Pakistan for fomenting trouble there, saying it had played a key role in fuelling tension and that terrorism in India was sponsored by it. “The essential commodities are being supplied in the curfew clamped areas and the ban which has been imposed on internet has been lifted”, he said.
Landline phone access was limited, except in Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar.
Separatist leaders have extended their strike call until Thursday afternoon followed by a shutdown and protests on Friday. The editors met with the state’s top elected official, Mehbooba Mufti, and other officials during the day who offered guarantees of smooth media operations, said Masood Hussain, a senior journalist and editor of the English weekly Kashmir Life.
Kashmir has been divided between rivals India and Pakistan since independence in 1947, but both claim the Himalayan territory in full.
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