In Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, normal life was severely affected in Jammu region, today, due to shut down and protest demonstrations against the fleecing of Kashmiri people by Narendra Modi-led Indian government.
According to Kashmir Media Service, business establishments in Jammu city and other major towns of the region remained closed while the traffic movement on the roads was very thin.
Call for the shutdown was given by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Jammu and supported to demand removal of Sarore Toll Plaza on Jammu-Pathankot highway and stopping of installation of smart meters by the power development department.
The shutdown call was supported by several regional political parties such as Congress, National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party.
Meanwhile, people continued protests on the 6th successive day, today, in Jammu, Samba, Kathua, Reasi, Udhampur and other areas to press for their demands.
The protests had started on Monday and intensified after Indian police used brute force on the demonstrators near the toll plaza.
In a sheer act of vengeance, the Modi government-installed puppet administration in occupied Jammu and Kashmir suspended a lecturer Zahoor Ahmad Butt who had appeared before the Indian Supreme Court and argued against abrogation of Article 370, which granted special status to IIOJK.
Meanwhile, Indian police arrested five innocent Kashmiris including a woman Munira Begum in Kupwara and Bandipora districts of occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
The All Parties Hurriyat Conference leaders Farooq Ahmed Tawheedi, Mir Shahid Saleem, and Maulana Musaib Nadvi in their statements deplored that anyone who speaks or raises voice against the Indian atrocities and for resolution of the Kashmir dispute by peaceful means is put in jail by the occupation authorities.
They said that the Indian brutalities will not be able to intimidate the Kashmiris into submission.
