Shakeel Ahmad Ganai was killed when security forces allegedly opened for on the protestors at Haal village of Pulwama district. Soon after the Friday prayers, people assembled on the roads and started protesting.
Friday's continue to haunt the Mehbooba Mufti-led government in Jammu and Kashmir as another youth fell to the security forces firing in south Kashmir's Pulwama district, even as authorities foiled separatists Eidgah march and detained Hurriya hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani and moderate leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.
Shakeel Ahmad Ganai was killed when security forces allegedly opened for on the protestors at Haal village of Pulwama district. Soon after the Friday prayers, people assembled on the roads and started protesting.
Later clashes ensued between the protestors and security forces prompting the later to lob smoke shells and open fire. Dozens of people were injured and were shifted to hospital where Shakeel succumbed. With his killing, the death toll has climbed to 68 since the unrest began after the killing of Hizbul Mujhadeen poster boy Burhan Muzaffar Wani on July 8.
Protests, clashes and stone pelting marked the 49th day of unrest across Kashmir on Friday. Scores of people have been injured in different incidents across the Kashmir valley on Friday.
Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani and moderate leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq were detained when they defied house detention and tried to lead a march to Eidgah. Joint Separatists Leadership, supervising the current agitation, had asked people to march to Eidgah on Friday. Authorities however imposed strict curfew and restrictions to foil the Eidgah march.
"Those killed by bullets and pellets were not out to buy toffees, milk". This statement ( buy Mehbooba Mufti) is meant to justify the killings of the innocent civilians at the hands of government force.
This also exposed the ruling regime's anti Kashmir, inhuman and revenge attitude towards people", said Mirwaiz. On the other side the Jammu and Kashmir police have appealed the people to stay away from processions "to avoid loss of life or injury".
"It has been observed that militants make their presence in public protests and on many occasions resort to hurling of grenades and firing. In one such incident in Pulwama on August 24, 17 police/security force personnel got injured and stand hospitalized.
Similarly such incidents have taken place in recent past at DH, Pora, Kulgam and Shopian also", said a police spokesman Police said the security forces have exercised maximum restraint and not retaliated to avoid civilian casualties.
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