Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik was today arrested by the police.
A JKLF spokesman in a statement said that Malik was immediately taken to police station Kothibagh.
Meanwhile, the spokesman quoted Malik saying that though from last three years blood of innocent Kashmiris is being spilled mercilessly but form last ten days this blood bath has been speeded-up alarmingly and dozens of innocent Kashmiris have fallen to the bullets.
“Yesterday, a civilian Yawar Ahmad was fired upon directly and killed brutally while as two others including Shakoor Ahmad Dar from Kulgam embraced martyrdom. Only two days back in similar manner forces massacred five Kashmiris at Sirigufwara and injured dozens among whom one Shahid Nazir Hajam succumbed to his injuries yesterday. Also on the last day of Ramazan and on Eid day, three unarmed Kashmiris were brutally killed by men in uniform and even today forces have opened fire at Nadihal injuring one Ubaid Manzoor Lone seriously,” spokesman quoted Malik as saying.
Asking international community and UN to intervene and stop Indian aggression on Kashmiris, JKLF chairman said: “Today United Nations Humans rights council is in session at Gevena and Kashmiris are eagerly looking towards it. We want to urge UN human rights council to have a human heart and sympathetic look towards Kashmiris and intervene to stop ongoing genocide of Kashmiris,” Malik was quoted as saying.
