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Resume normal activities from Wednesday, wear black badges, hoist black flags in protest of innocent killings: JRL tells people

The Joint Resistance Leadership has asked people to resume ‘normal activities’ from Tuesday. However they have added that people from all walks of life should wear black badges and hoist black flags on their homes in protest against the bloodshed and innocent killings in Kashmir.

In a statement, JRL comprising of Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik said, ” People from all walks of life, including employees, lawyers, teachers, traders and transporters to fix black badges on their arms and black flags on their houses, shops and vehicles on May 9 to show anger and protest against the bloodshed and innocent killings across Kashmir.”

The JRL also urged the Imams of all the mosques, shrines and Imam Baras to offer funeral prayers in absentia for the those killed in Shopian and Srinagar last week after congregational weekly prayers on Friday and to read and pass the JRL resolution.

Pertinently, Kashmir valley remained shut during past three days due to a strike call issued by the JRL over the civilian and militant killings.

Last week,  five civilians and as many militants were killed in the gun fight that took place in Shopian on Sunday. The civilians were killed in clashes which followed the gun fight. The death toll of civilians went up to six after a 17 year old boy Sufail Ahmed Bhat, a resident of Dachoo village of Nagbal who was injured during clashes near the Shopian gunfight site, breathed his last on Tuesday in SMHS hospital.

Among the killed militants was Saddam Padder, a top Hizb commander and the missing Assistant Professor of the Kashmir University Dr. Mohammad Rafi Bhat.

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Reacting over the killing of the professor, former chief minister Omar Abdullah said that his death is the answer to those  who say that jobs is the solution to violence and alienation in Kashmir.

Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti also expressed deep anguish and grief over the death of five civilians and reiterated that that gun, either way of a militant or that of security forces, is no solution for resolving issues.

On the opening day of Durbar in Srinagar, while reacting to the bloodbath in Shopian, Mehbooba said that ‘Islam doesn’t permit to embrace death at such a young age.’

While calling stone throwers, militants as ‘Gareeb ke Bacchhe’, Mehbooba on Monday appealed to the Centre to find a “middle path” for ending the cycle of violence in the Valley which was consuming the lives of ‘poor youth’ and ‘security forces’.

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