| Srinagar, Oct 06-(PBI): Authorities in the Valley are taking no chances in the run up to today’’s (Monday) march to Sringar’’s Lal Chowk. The march has been called on by Co-ordination Committee, an amalgam of various pro-freedom parties, traders, lawyers and members of the civil society. The Jammu-Srinagar highway has been closed by the administration, reports said. Srinagar city is being manned by more than 30,000 CRPF and local police. The Army is also assisting local administration in entire Kashmir valley. Meanwhile, authorities detained most of the top APHC leadership, including Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Professor Abdul Ghani, Maulana Abbas Ansari and Bilal Ghani. Chairman Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Yasin Malik, Moulana Showkat and Javed Mir were shifted to some undisclosed place after being arrested while senior leader Syed Ali Gillani was under treatment in hospital, sources told PBI here. The government has said it’’s taking such steps to prevent violence. The precautions are in place eight weeks after a “march to Muzaffarabad” led to the death of a Hurriyat leader and several other protesters in police firing. But Co-ordination Committee claim such harsh measures are unjustified saying that their pro-freedom marches in the past two months have been largely peaceful. Posted on 06 Oct 2008 by Webmaster |
Tags: freedom leaders moved to undisclosed place, highway closed, Kashmir Valey, leaders under detention, Muhammad Yasin Malik, planned march in Srinager
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