Srinagar, Jun 01: Three youth were injured, one of them seriously, after they were hit by a paramilitary CRPF vehicle during clashes in Nowhatta area of Srinagar on Friday.
Reports said that the CRPF vehicle hit the youth during protests after congregational prayers concluded at the historic Jamia Masjid.
Pertinently hundreds of people held a protest after the weekly congregational prayers at Jamia Masjid Srinagar.
Hundreds of youth attacked a CRPF vehicle with stones which sped up hitting three protesting youth, reports said.
They said that the injured youth were shifted to a hospital for treatment.
One of the youth identified as Mohammad Younis, as per doctors, has “polytrauma” and doctors attending on him said “we are monitoring his condition but he is very critical.”
Another injured youth was identified as Kaiser Ahmad from Fateh Kadal. He is also said to be in critical condition.
The police sources while confirming the injuries to the youth said they are ascertaining details as to how they were injured.
Jamia Masjid will always raise voice against repression: Mirwaiz
Srinagar, Jun 01: Hurriyat-M chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday said Jamia Masjid will always echo the voices against the “state repression”.
He also announced that like in the past, this year too the last Friday of Ramazan – Jumat-ul-Vida – will be observed as ‘Youm-e-Qudus’ in solidarity with Palestine and also as ‘Youme-e-Kashmir’ or the (Kashmir Day.
During his weekly Friday sermon at the Jamia Masjid today, Mirwaiz said no matter who rules Jammu and Kashmir, Jamia Masjid has always been targeted.
“Whether it was the Sikh rule, or the Dogra rule, or the rule by different dispensations since, the Jamia Masjid has been targeted time and again,” he said while recalling that in 1931, “it was for the first time during Dogra rule when the Jamia Masjid was closed for Jumat-ul-Vida prayers.”
Mirwaiz said right from the day Kashmiris started their “fight against the oppression of Dogras to New Delhi’s forcible control, the pulpit of Jamia Masjid has reverberated with the voice against repression and represents the true aspirations of people of Kashmir to break free from the yoke of subjugation.”
He said that Jamia Masjid continues be an “eye-sore for the ruling regimes” including those at the helm today as its pulpit represents the sentiments and aspirations of the people and fearlessly raises its voice against oppression.
Mirwaiz said that “the more repressive measures government takes to damage the sanctity and centrality of the Jamia Masjid, the more people should throng the place to give a befitting reply to the government that Kashmiris will never surrender.”
