Woman separatist group stages protest against Sopore killings

A woman separatist group today held a demonstration in Srinagar against the killing of two teenaged girls by suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants in Sopore town of north Kashmir earlier this week.

Zamrooda Habib of Muslim Khwateen Markaz (Muslim Women Centre), a constituent of the hardline faction of Hurriyat Conference, accompanied by her party members led a protest in Sringar's commercial nerve centre Lal Chowk against the killing of the two sisters.

The activists carried placards and shouted slogans demanding justice for the two slain girls. "We protested against the inhuman killing of two innocent girls. Anyone involved in the killing should be brought to justice," Habib said.

Police said that the two girls were killed by the militants of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) but a spokesperson of the banned outfit denied the allegations.

The Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani called for a shutdown today in Sopore against the killing of two girls.