Jammu & Kashmir

Children protest use of pellet guns in Indian Kashmir

The youth shouted slogans such as “go back India”

Our Correspondent September 11, 2016

Faisal, a student, said that the children of Kashmir were paying for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s short-sightedness. PHOTO: AFP/FILE

MUZAFFARABAD: Hundreds of children carried lunch boxes in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) imprinted with “ban pellet guns at a global level and declare it a lethal weapon” in solidarity with victims of pellet guns in Indian Kashmir.

The students belonging from various schools assembled under the banner of Sawera Assembly took to the streets, here on Friday.

The procession started from Shaukat Lines and concluded at the Centre Press Club.

The youth shouted slogans such as “go back India”, “we want freedom” and “stop stealing the eyesight of Kashmiri children”.

Mubeena Mir, a fourth-grade student, said that she had taken part in the demonstration to express solidarity with the children targeted by Indian forces by pellet guns who lost their vision as a result.

Faisal, a student, said that the children of Kashmir were paying for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s short-sightedness.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 11^th, 2016.