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| Separatists planning another season of strikes? | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Apr 29: separatist factions in Kashmir are engaged in cooking another long cycle of shutdowns by sponsoring youth to disturb law and order situation post Friday prayers in some sensitive areas.
Witnessing refusal to their shut down calls recently called and diminishing trend in their personal popularity, sources close to separatist leaders believe that separatist factions camped in Kashmir are weaving a fresh cycle of shut downs to make their presence felt.
Sources said that negative response to shut down calls of hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Yaseen Malik in length and breadth by people is giving sleepless nights to separatists these days.
To make their presence felt by virtue of sponsored violence, sources said that separatist workers are motivating youth in some sensitive pockets of Kashmir to disturb law and order situation post Friday prayers by resorting to stone pelting and raising anti-India slogans.
Sources said that separatist leaders have launched new membership drives to recruit new faces among youth to use them against people in general including shopkeepers and transporters ignoring shut down calls.
They said that process has already started and in this regard post-Friday prayers today some youth surfaced to launch protests in Sopore and Handwara of North Kashmir and in Kashmir University at Srinagar.
In typically called sensitive Sopore town sources that Soon after Friday prayers few Separatist leaders marched from Jamia Masjid Sopore towards main chowk and shouted anti-India slogans.
Likewise in Handwara area reports of youth in company of few separatists shouting anti-India and pro-Pakistan were reported as well.
In Srinagar authorities thwarted one such proposed post-Friday programmes of separatist group led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
Working on reports authorities detained some separatist activists and did not let them instigate people to resort to stone pelting and disturb law and order situation.
Authorities have already detained senior leaders of separatists in their homes and served Public safety acts to many found involved in hoisting flags of Pakistan in Kashmir.
However according to sources separatist camps are secretly engaging new faces of youth these days to start a fresh of violence in Kashmir in this summer.
Today the call for protests post Friday prayers was given by Geelani against what he said recent civilian killings in Handwara and for not allowing the funeral prayers in absentia of Amanullah Khan who died in Pakistan. |
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