Anti-India protests continued for a second day on Monday in Indian-held Kashmir after the Indian forces martyred at least nine Kashmiri youth in the occupied region.
Four youth were killed in Pinjora area on Monday morning after the Indian forces set up a cordon and search operation. Five other were killed in Shopian district’s Reban area on Sunday afternoon. The troops destroyed at least one house during the operation. Hundreds of locals came out of their houses, threw stones on the troops and shouted anti-India slogans.
Earlier, three Indian troops were critically injured in a clash in the same area. The authorities suspended all mobile internet services in Shopian district. The troops continued their cordon and search operations in Srinagar, Baramulla, Bandipore, Kupwara, Ganderbal, Budgam, Islamabad, Pulwama, Kulgam, Ramban, Rajouri, Poonch, Kisthwar and Doda areas of the territory.
Meanwhile, Hurriyat leaders and Kashmiri organizations in their separate statements, while paying rich tributes to the martyred youth, sought intervention by the United Nations to stop bloodshed in the occupied territory.
They said that the deteriorating human rights situation and genocide of the Kashmiri people should serve as an eye-opener for the world community.
Pakistan also strongly condemned the unabated extra-judicial killings of Kashmiri youth in acts of state-terrorism perpetrated by the Indian occupation forces in the occupied valley. “It is the responsibility of the world community to urgently act and protect the Kashmiris from the wanton killings and other brutalities being inflicted on them by the Indian occupation forces. Pakistan will continue to call for holding India accountable for its crimes against the Kashmiri people,” the Foreign Office said in a press release.
