Shutdown in Occupied Kashmir as India bans Yasin Malik's JKLF

Srinagar: A complete shutdown is being observed in Occupied Kashmir against the banning of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front by India, Kashmir Media Service reported on Sunday.

Call for the strike has been given by the Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) comprising Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik.

All shops and other business establishments are closed in Srinagar and other big and small cities of the valley while the traffic is off the road.

The Indian government banned the JKLF led by Muhammad Yasin Malik yesterday for its pro-freedom activities. 

Yasin Malik is presently lodged at Kot Bhalwal Jail in Jammu under draconian law, Public Safety Act.

“The order to ban Jamaat-e-Islami and JKLF is nothing but an act of political vengeance and an oppressive tactic to suppress the just movement of people of Jammu and Kashmir.

 The Indian government’s decision to ban the organisations peacefully striving for the resolution of Kashmir dispute, will not cow down the people.” a  JRL statement said.

It said the Indian government wants to push people to wall for raising the demand to get their rights but it will not make pro-freedom leadership to crumble.