In Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, complete shutdown will be observed tomorrow, against the G20 meeting being held by the Modi-led Indian government in Srinagar. 

According to Kashmir Media Service, call for the shutdown has been jointly given by the All Parties Hurriyat Conference and AJK political leadership. Protest demonstrations, rallies will be held on this occasion.

The incarcerated APHC Chairman, Masarrat Aalam Butt, in a message from New Delhi’s Tihar Jail urged the people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir and Azad Kashmir to make the strike a success.

On the other hand, APHC Vice Chairman, Ghulam Ahmed Gulzar, in a statement issued in Srinagar eulogized the sacrifices of prominent Kashmiri leaders, Mirwaiz Molvi Muhammad Farooq and Khawaja Abdul Ghani Lone, and the martyrs of Hawal on their martyrdom anniversaries, today.

Mirwaiz Farooq was martyred by unidentified gunmen at his residence in Srinagar on this day in 1990. On the same day, seventy mourners were killed when Indian troops resorted to indiscriminate firing on his funeral procession in Hawal area of the Srinagar city. Twelve years later on this day in 2002, Khawaja Abdul Ghani Lone was martyred by unknown attackers when he was returning after addressing a gathering at the Martyrs’ Graveyard in Srinagar.