In Occupied Kashmir, life came to standstill, today, due to a complete shutdown against the massacre carried out by the Indian troops in Shopian and Islamabad districts on Sunday.

Call for the strike was given by the Joint Resistance Leadership comprising Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik. The strike also affected life in far-flung areas of Ramban district in Jammu region.

All educational institutions, markets, banks and petrol pumps remained closed while traffic was off the road in the length and breadth of the territory. Internet and train services remained suspended on the second straight day, today.

Unprecedented restrictions were particularly imposed in Shopian, Kulgam, Islamabad, Pulwama and Srinagar districts. However, people defied curfew in many areas and came out to offer funeral prayers in absentia for the martyrs.

Students of Kashmir University staged massive protests in the university campus raising anti-India and pro-liberation slogans. They offered funeral prayers in absentia for the martyrs.

Traders also held a protest in Srinagar. Over a dozen were injured when the troops used force and fired bullets and pellets on protesters in Shopian on Monday.

The occupation authorities put Hurriyet leaders including Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai under house arrest. Muhammad Yasin Malik was arrested.

Meanwhile, the Indian troops resorted to indiscriminate firing inside the Shopian hospital building after doctors on duty objected to troops’ intervention in the treatment of yesterday’s injured people.