He again demanded India to return mortal remains of Shaheed Maqbool Butt and Shaheed Afzal Guru buried in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail.
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Malik alleged that police was humiliating boys and putting them behind bars. “But that does not mean you will keep criminal silence on Kashmir”, he asked.
The separatist leaders including Peoples League vice-Chairperson, Muhammad Yaseen Atayee, Imtiyaz Hyder, Muslim League senior leader, Bashir Ahmad Bhat and several others have been taken under preventive custody on Monday night.
“It is a policy of Indian government to suppress the voices of Kashmiris”.
Tens of thousands of Kashmiris have reportedly been killed so far in the violence, a lot of them by Indian forces. “They also snatch freedom of right of the people which exposes the India democracy”, he said.
Post the arrest, Malik said JKLF had made a decision to stage peaceful protest on February 10 to “attract the attention of world community to the denial of mortal remains of Guru and Bhat to their family members by New Delhi”.
The Prime Minister of Azad government of the State of Jammu and Kashmir Ch Abdul Majeed paid glowing tributes to Muhammad Afzal Guru on his martyrdom anniversary on Tuesday.
Hurriyat Conference (G) spokesman Ayaz Akbar has also said that the police placed senior leaders of the amalgam including Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai under house arrest.
Kashmir Mass Movement, a constituent of hardline Hurriyat, staged a protest at Press Colony against the hanging of Guru.
In his message, the AJK Premier said that Afzal Guru was hanged to death without being given a fair trial.
CRPF’s DIG (Operations), Sanjeev Dhundia, on Monday reviewed the security situation in central Srinagar and asked the force officers and jawans to remain vigilant and alert and take adequate measures to prevent injuries to CRPF men.
Official sources said that areas falling under police stations of Khanyar, Rainawari, Nowhatta, S.R. Gunj, Safa Kadal and Maisuma in Srinagar will remain under curfew-like restrictions from dawn on Tuesday till further orders.
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In Sopore, the hometown of Afzal Guru, the security is on high alert. Similar statements were issued by other Hurriyat groups also.
