Srinagar,
July 12, 2019 (PPI-OT): In occupied Kashmir, complete shutdown will be
observed, tomorrow, to mark the Kashmir Martyrs’ Day, the 13th July. Call for
the shutdown has been given by the Joint Resistance Leadership to reiterate the
urgent need for a peaceful and just resolution of the Kashmir dispute and to
put an end to repression against the Kashmiri people and Hurriyat leaders. The
JRL has appealed to the people to conduct a march towards the Martyrs’
Graveyard at Naqashband Sahib in Srinagar and offer prayers for the martyrs
collectively.
It was
on the 13th of July 1931 when the troops of Dogra Maharaja had killed 22
Kashmiris, one after the other, outside Central Jail in Srinagar during the
court proceedings against one Abdul Qadeer who had asked Kashmiri people to
defy the Dogra rule. Meanwhile, the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat
Conference, Syed Ali Gilani, and other Hurriyat leaders including Mirwaiz Umar
Farooq and Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai in their statement paid glorious tributes to
the martyrs of 13th July.
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