Youth succumbs to injuries, death toll reaches 102 in held Kashmir
The youth identified as 21-year-old Basit Mukhtar was injured after Indian police fired pellets.
SRINAGAR (Web Desk / AP) - In occupied Kashmir, another youth succumbed to his injuries at SMHS hospital in Srinagar, Friday, taking the death toll in the ongoing Kashmir Intifada to 102.
The youth identified as 21-year-old Basit Mukhtar was injured after Indian police fired pellets on protesters in Pulwama on September 5.
Besides the killing of 102 persons, over 12,000 people have been injured so far due to the firing of pellets, bullets and teargas shells by Indian police and troops on protesters in the ongoing Intifada.
The Intifada was triggered by the killing of top commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, Burhan Muzaffar Wani, on July 8, this year.
Meanwhile, the puppet authorities continue to impose curfew and other restrictions in all ten districts of the Kashmir Valley on the 70th consecutive day, Friday, to stop demonstrations against the civilian killings in the territory.
People of the Valley continue to observe strike since July 9, this year, to protest against the ongoing killing spree unleashed by Indian forces in the territory.
Internet and mobile networks have also been cut off in a bid to prevent a repeat of the protests.
On the other hand, a prominent pro-India Kashmiri politician has resigned from India’s Parliament and from his regional party to protest a government crackdown in occupied Kashmir that prevented people from offering Eid prayers for the first time in the region.
Tariq Hameed Karra, a founding member of the People’s Democratic Party, said he quit on Thursday to express his anger over the “brutal policy" followed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and the acquiescence of his party, a coalition partner.
His decision is a setback for his party in India-held Kashmir, which has been wracked by massive protests for the past two months.
Human rights violations in India-held Kashmir are not an internal matter of the Indian state, said Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) secretary-general Iyad Amin Madani last month.
The head of the world’s largest bloc of Muslim countries had expressed concern over human rights violations in occupied Kashmir, which has seen weeks of deadly clashes between Muslim protesters and police.
