Protests as Indian troops kill four including 70 yr old man
Pakistan Times Kashmir Desk

SRINAGAR: In occupied Kashmir, the Indian troops subjected a muharram procession at Lal Chowk in Srinagar Friday to brute force. APHC leaders including Syed Muzaffar Rizvi were arrested on the occasion.

Elsewhere, Indian troops in their fresh acts of state terrorism martyred three more Kashmiris. Of them, dead bodies of two were found in debris of two houses blasted by troops at Rafiabad in Baramulla.

Another was shot dead in the same area who was claimed by occupation authorities to be the Battalion Commander of Hizbul Mujahideen. Killing of a seventy-year-old man in Shaikhpora locality of Rafiabad triggered forceful anti-India demonstrations. Protests were also staged in Pahalgam against illegal arrests.

Killing of a 70 year old civilian by Indian forces during a crackdown in Rafiabad, Baramulla triggered forceful demonstration by hundreds of angry residents of the area.

The Indian forces personnel belonging to 30 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) cordoned off the village Sunni-Saidnar and carried out cordon and search operations in the area. During the search operation the forces personnel tried to manhandle few women. Seeing this a 70-year-old man Mohammad Maqbool Malla objected.

The forces personnel fired at him and killed him on the spot. His killing lead to demonstrations from the people and they came out in large numbers protesting against the death. The protestors placed the body of the slain person on the main road at Hadipora-Rafiabad and it led to the disruption of the traffic.

The protestors were demanding that a case be filed against the military forces personnel and action be taken against them. The protestors were not ready to bury the body of the slain. They raised pro-freedom and anti-forces slogans.

The protest demonstration led to complete standstill of the traffic movement and it took hours altogether to restore the order. The protestors were pacified only when the senior police officials and the civil administration officials assured them that investigations would be carried out in the case.●