In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, senior leader of Communist Party of India Marxist Yousuf Tarigami has described occupation authorities’ move to set up a Special Task Force to monitor activities of employees as arbitrary and draconian.

In a statement in Srinagar, he said this is against the interests of hundreds of thousands of employees working in the region.

Meanwhile, the wife of incarcerated APHC leader Ayaz Akbar died in Srinagar after protracted illness. Ayaz Akbar is facing illegal detention in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail since 2018.