In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, top members of Sikh community have said that Chittisinghpora and other such massacres were perpetrated by Indian secret agencies to suppress the ongoing movement for Kashmir’s freedom from Indian occupation. 

According to Kashmir Media Service, on the 22nd anniversary of the gruesome massacre, Sikh political leaders Narindar Singh Khalsa, Angad Singh Khalsa and Davinder Singh Behl, retired military officers and members of legal fraternity based in occupied Jammu and Kashmir said that Indian agencies in connivance with killers of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh slaughtered 35 innocent Sikhs in Chittisinghpora area of Islamabad district on this day in 2000. 

Meanwhile, the All Parties Hurriyat leadership has welcomed all the foreign ministers and dignitaries attending the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation meeting being held in Islamabad from Tuesday. In a statement, the leadership implored the visiting dignitaries to work out a robust strategy to free Kashmir and Palestine from illegal occupation of India and Israel.

Indian police arrested APHC leader Hakeem Abdul Rasheed and lodged him in Lalbazar Police station in Srinagar.

Three personnel of Indian paramilitary Central Reserve Police force were injured in two grenade blasts in Pulwama and Shopian districts of south Kashmir.