WKSA to launch fast unto death on missing youth

A students association today threatened to launch fast unto death agitation if the missing youth, Basharat Ahmad, is not traced by the concerned authorities by July 10.
  
"We have asked the state government to trace the missing youth by July 10 or face a mass fast unto death agitation from
the student community of Kashmir," spokesman of the World Kashmiri Students Association (WKSA), an organisation with
which all major Kashmiri student and youth unions are affiliated, said today.
  
The villagers allege that 16-year-old Basharat Ahmad of Chakpath-Larkipora was summoned by the troops of 36 Rashtria Rifles to its camp on Sunday morning and since then he is missing.

Police on Monday had registered a case against army unit after hundreds of people staged massive demonstration demanding to know the whereabouts of Basharat.

The WKSA also appealed to the Kashmiri students to wear black head bands till Basharat is traced safe and sound.
   
The Kashmiri students community has decided to take out a "grand rally" at Polo Ground in the city on July 17 to protest
against the "barbaric and undignified response of the state administration post-shopian", the spokesman said.

He said the rally will also pay a tribute to victims of Shopian and Baramulla.