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Kashmir separatists calls for Kashmir shut down tomorrow

| | Feb 15, 2016, at 03:53 am
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IBNS) Following the killings of two civilians and a militant in Pulwama of South Kashmir on Sunday, separatist groups, including moderate Hurriyat Conference Chief Mirwaiz Umar, Yasin led JKLF and Hardliner Hurriyat (G) Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani, called for a complete shutdown in the state on Monday.

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, while terming the killings as "highly unfortunate and unjustified", said the forces in Kashmir have become trigger-happy.

He appealed people must observe a complete shutdown on Monday against the innocent killings.

JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik also called for a strike against the "brutal killings" and condemned the "silence" of international community, civil society and human rights organizations on the "unprovoked" killing of innocent people.

Meanwhile, Moderate Hurriyat Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was  put under house arrest on Sunday evening by Jammu and Kashmir Police.

Strongly condemning the killing of two innocent civilians, Chairman of Hardliner Hurriyat (G) Conference Syed Ali Geelani appealed people of Kashmir valley, Pirpanjal and Chenab regions to oberve complete shut down tomorrow on killings.

Syed Geelani termed the killing of innocent civilians “as the worst kind of state terrorism of India in Jammu & Kashmir,”

Danish Farooq Mir and Shaista Hameed died after forces opened fire, locals alleged


(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)
 

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