“About 2 lakh people attended the funeral prayers of Burhan Wani”, reports said, adding that 31 youth were also killed during the clashes between youth and forces in Kashmir following the killing of Wani.
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Kashmir separatist groups are house arrested by the state authorities after the killing of Burhan Muzaffar Wani.
“The death toll now is 34 including a policeman who was killed in mob violence.It also includes one civilian who succumbed to injuries at SKIMS Hospital this morning”, a police official said.
“A day after the Pakistani government, along with Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed condemned the killing of Hizbul commander Burhan Wani, India has retaliated by warning Pakistan to refrain from ‘interfering in the internal affairs of its neighbours”.
Since 1989, Kashmiri resistance groups in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) have been fighting against Indian rule for independence or for unification with neighboring Pakistan.
A blood donation camp was held by Voice of Victims in Srinagar for the people, injured during the protests.
“No yatri will be allowed to move towards the Valley from Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas in Jammu city today”, a senior police officer said. Most of those killed were teens and men younger than 26 from southern occupied Kashmir, police said.
Analysts in the area say that the absence of political engagement to resolve the Kashmir dispute is setting a new political discourse and militancy is gaining legitimacy among people who believe Delhi is ignoring political realities.
Kashmir burst into a conflagration following the death of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani in a brief encounter in Kokernag, Anantnag district.
According to officials in the State’s health department, one woman was killed and almost four dozen have suffered injuries, who have been admitted at various hospitals over the last four days of intense clashes across the Valley.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, having just returned from a four-nation tour in Africa, called a high-level government meeting to discuss how to calm the region and restore peace.
Indian officials lifted a suspension on an annual Hindu pilgrimage to a mountain cave that draws about half a million people each year, and asked that law enforcement ensure the security of the pilgrimage.
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Mobile Internet and train services are still suspended while mobile telephony has been snapped in Kupwara area following the death of a youth during protests yesterday.
