IOJ&K: Hurriyat Leadership Appeals to Observe Complete Shutdown

SRINAGAR, July 12 (Online Int’l): In Occupied Kashmir, the Hurriyat leadership including Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and others have appealed to the people of the territory to observe a complete shutdown today to reaffirm the pledge to continue the mission of their martyrs till the achievement of the inalienable right to self-determination.

It may be recalled that on the 13th of July 1931, the troops of Dogra Maharaja had killed 22 Kashmiris outside Central Jail in Srinagar during the court proceedings against Abdul Qadeer, who had asked Kashmiri people to defy the Dogra rule.

The APHC spokesman in a statement issued in Srinagar said that on 13th July 1931, when it was time for Namaz-e-Zuhr, a young man started the call for prayer (Azaan) but was shot dead by the Maharaja’s soldiers.

Thus, 22 youth sacrificed their lives till the completion of Azaan.

The spokesman said that the aim of the strike call is to stress the urgent need for a peaceful and just solution to the Kashmir dispute and to end the cycle of oppression against the Hurriyat leaders and the Kashmiri people.

He also appealed for a march towards the Mazar-e-Shuhada, Naqshband Sahib in Srinagar on the day where the martyrs of 1931 are buried.

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