Kashmiri youth shield Geelani from RSS attack

Kashmiri youth foil attack on leader of Hurriyat party when members of RSS tried to mount an assault at Delhi seminar.


October 22, 2010

ISLAMABAD: Kashmiri youth on Thursday foiled an attack on leader of a Hurriyat faction Syed Ali Geelani when members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh tried to mount an assault in Delhi at a seminar on Kashmir.

The incident was followed by anti-India and pro-liberation slogans within the seminar hall, which lasted more than half an hour.

The event was organised by the Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners and those who spoke on the occasion included Syed Ali Geelani, Arundhati Roy, Prof Abdur Rehman, Prof Sujatha Rao, Najeeb Bukhari, Dr Sheikh Showkat Hussain, Varvara Rao and Dr N Venu.

The majority of speakers stressed the need for an early resolution of the Kashmir dispute while denouncing human rights violations by Indian troops in the occupied territory.

Meanwhile, Indian troops pressed attack helicopters into service during a clash with militants at Maloora Shalteng in the outskirts of Srinagar. Two Kashmiri youth were killed in the fierce gunbattle.

The authorities imposed a curfew and restrictions in Srinagar and all other districts of the valley to thwart the Lal Chowk March, the call for which had been given by the forum patronised by Syed Ali Geelani.

Indian police resorted to brute force to quell peaceful protests in Habba Kadal in Srinagar, near Cement Bridge in Baramulla town.

On the death anniversary of Agha Syed Yousuf alMoosvi alSafvi, APHC leader, Agha Syed Hassan al Moosvi, said while addressing a function in Budgam that the mission of the late religious leader would continue.

The Norwegian parliament has issued a schedule to debate the Kashmir dispute from November 15, taking a serious note of human rights violations in occupied Kashmir.

The reports said that the Norwegian foreign miinister would release a policy statement on Kashmir after the debate.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 22nd, 2010.

COMMENTS (8)

AKASH D SHARMA | 13 years ago | Reply Geelani gets the taste of his own dish. Boye ped babool ka, amua kaha se hoye. By the way, improve your knowledge of journalism. It was not RSS who attacked him, it was the people of Kashmir itself, and Geelani was saved by an Indian policeman. Even if, he was saved by a kashimiri youth, we are proud of it because Kashmir is also a very much part of India.
Singh | 13 years ago | Reply Save present Pakistan first from mullah & terrorist then talk about human right. Does any pakistani has basic human right? Start freedom from your own house. Let people express their views without any intervention.
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