J&K: Prayers for blood-stained Peshawar

According to reports, funeral prayers in absentia for the martyrs of Peshawar school attack were offered all across Kashmir on Wednesday.

In Kargil, people offered funeral prayers in absentia soon after the congregational prayers.

The participants offered Fateha for eternal peace of the victims and prayed Allah Almighty to grant courage to members of the bereaved families to bear this loss with patience.

Kashmirirs Octogenarian Hurriyat Chairman Syed Ali Geelani led the prayers outside Jamia Masjid Hyderpora in Srinagar where hundreds of people attended and offered prayers in favour of Peshawar victims.

Chief Cleric Kashmir Mirwaiz Molvi Muhammad Umar Farooq also led funeral prayers at Jamia Masjid in Srinagar that was attended by thousands of people.

Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association suspended their court proceedings.

While expressing its grief and sorrow over the massacre of 132 innocent students and nine employees of the school, the Bar Association said they stood in solidarity with the families of the victims and the people of Pakistan.

"We want that all those people responsible for the killing of these innocent people should be traced out and dealt with severely," a statement read. 

The association called the attack "a senseless and a sheer act of cowardice".

"The Bar feels that it was the responsibility of the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to provide security and safety to the students of the school, but as the Chief Minister of the province was busy in Dharnas in Islamabad and other places, therefore, the barbaric forces found it easy to attack the school and kill the innocents," the association rued.

The federal government, it said, must accept the responsibility and mend its ways and come forward to help the people and discharge the obligation entrusted to it by the people of the province.

Meanwhile, President of Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) Dr Nisar ul Hassan said while condemning the killing of innocent people in the Army run school at Peshawar Pakistan also termed it barbaric.

DAK in a statement said that this deadliest and bloodiest carnage of  innocent children is indeed a murder of humanity.

Earlier Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah condemned the Taliban assault on school children and said "inhuman" and "barbaric" were not enough to describe the perpetrators.

(Reporting and Image by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)