In another clashes, 23-year-old Yawar Mushtaq was killed in forces action in Batengoo village of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, taking the overall death toll in the current uprising to 78.
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More than 70,000 people have reportedly been killed in the conflict so far, a lot of them by the Indian Armed forces. More than 40 protesters were hit by the pellets.
Ahmed, according to health officials, received pellet injuries in his chest and abdomen during a clash.
Indian army’s re-entry in Pulwama, Shopian, Kulgam and Anantnag came days after a parliamentary delegation of Indian politicians had visited the Kashmir. Five civilians were also injured in the Hiller Dooru village after security personnel fired pellets during a protest march. Eyewitnesses said police and paramilitary forces were removing barricades set up by people on the roads at the time.
The separatists have extended the shutdown programme till September 16.
But the unrest shows few signs of abating, with residents continuing to take to the streets, while schools and most businesses remain closed, hitting the region’s economy hard.
A police officer was quoted as saying: “We have reports of more than 100 injured in today’s protests”.
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Meanwhile, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has invited the Chairman of Hurriyet Forum, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq to attend the meeting of its Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir to be held in NY later this month. “The manner in which medics and paramedics rose to the occasion during the recent crisis in Kashmir and attended to their duties is commendable”, she said. “The doctors who are working in the valley are doing it 24 hours, without going home”, she said.
