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| Police foil JKLF's protest rally against settlement of West Pakistan refugees at Maisuma | | Yasin Malik arrested, protests break out against his arrest | |  Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Jan 16: Protests broke out in the Maisuma and the adjoining areas after Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman, Mohammad Yasin Malik was arrested by police while he tried to carry out a protest rally against the settlement of West Pakistan refugees in Jammu.
Immediately after the Friday prayers, Malik along with scores of his supporters came out on the main road near Budshah Chowk and tried best to carry out the protest rally against the settlement of West Pakistan refugees. The participants of the rally shouted slogans and alleged the move would change the demography of the entire state.
The police personnel and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans who were already posted there in good numbers asked Malik and his supporters to retreat. However, the JKLF Chairman along with the others did not listen to the suggestion and moved ahead with their protest rally.
Following this the police and CRPF personnel swooped on the rally participants and stopped them from moving ahead. The JKLF Chairman was whisked away in a police vehicle and was lodged in a nearby police station. Some of the JKLF supporters and other rally participants were also taken into preventive custody on this occasion. As soon as the news of arrest reached the Maisuma and adjoining areas JKLF supporters and workers came out and started pelting stones on the police and CRPF personnel. The stone pelting led to pandemonium in the area and the people ran towards safer places while fearing for their safety. Police and CRPF personnel resorted to cane charge and lobbed smoke shells on the protesters. The police and CRPF action led to disturbance in the area with life being thrown out of gear. The shopkeepers downed their shutters and ran towards safer places. At the same time the transport movement was also affected and the traffic was diverted via alternate routes.
The ding dong battle between the two sides carried on for some hours and situation turned normal after some time. Most of the JKLF activists and supporters arrested were released by the evening while as there was no word about Malik. It is not known whether he has been released or not so far.
Talking to media persons before carrying out the rally Malik said that JKLF will defend the special status of Jammu & Kashmir even at the cost of their lives and fight all those forces who want to 'change' demography of the state.
A spokesman of JKLF said that JKLF leaders, activists, people from other 'resistance' parties including chairperson APDP Parveena Ahangar took part in the protest rally. The spokesman said that police action led to injuries to dozens of rally participants. He said that besides Malik police arrested Mohammad Sideeq Shah, Sheikh Abdul Rashid, Bashir Ahmad Kashmiri, Bashir Ahmad Boya and Imtiyaz Ahmad. |
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