Protesters clash with police at Palhallan

greaterkashmir.com

Sat, 24 Jul 2010

Srinagar: Clashes between policemen and paramilitary CRPF troopers broke out in north Kashmir’s Palhallan town on Saturday, sources said.

They said hundreds of people took to the streets and staged a pro-freedom demonstration on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road. A huge contingent of police reached on the spot and resorted to baton charge to disperse them. Protesters retaliated with stones triggering clashes that continued for nearly an hour,

Authorities had imposed curfew-like restrictions in Palhallan after clashes on Friday. A police spokesman had claimed that the local station house officer (SHO) was injured « after being hit by a bullet fired by one among the protesters.”

People defy cordon in Bl’a, Sopore, Isl’bad and Bandipora

Rising Kashmir News

Firing in Pattan, Blast in Chanapora: 52 hurt in clashes

Srinagar July 23: Authorities imposed curfew in Bandipora, Baramulla, Sopore and enforced tougher restrictions in old city Srinagar and other parts of Valley to foil Hurriyat (G’s) “Khankah March” and protest call.

However, defying restrictions people staged demonstrations at Baramulla, Sopore, Bandipora, uptown Srinagar and South Kashmir and clashed with police and paramilitary personnel. At least 52 persons including a DSP and four policemen were injured in the clashes.

Officials said more than 20,000 additional troops were deployed in Srinagar to prevent people from staging demonstrations and marching towards the shrine of Khankah.

Khankah and its adjoining areas were sealed by the cops and nobody was allowed to move towards the shrine. Curfew like restrictions was enforced in Habba-kadal, Fateh kadal, Bohri kadal, Naidkadal to foil the separatists march.

The tougher restrictions were also put in police at Nowhatta, Khanyar, Maharajgunj, Rainawari, Safakadal Soura, Lalbazar, Nigeen and Noorbagh in old city and Batmaloo, Maisuma, Kralkhud and Shaheedgunj localities in uptown Srinagar. The cops had laid concertina wires and erected barricades to impede the movement of people.

However, defying restrictions youth came out on roads at Hyderpoa area in uptown Srinagar and staged anti-India protests. Chanting pro-freedom, pro-Islamic and anti-India slogans, the protestors were demanding action against the police and CRPF men involved in recent killing of youth. The protestors burnt the effigy of chief minister Omar Abdullah and later clashed with police and CRPF men, who lobbed tear smoke shells and resorted to baton charge. Police also arrested two protestors.

People also took to roads at Lasjan, Soiteing, Nishat, Shalimar, Pandich Nagbal, Galwanpora and adjoining areas and staged demonstrations.

Meanwhile, a police spokesman said some unknown persons lobbed a grenade towards CRPF bunker at SICOP building Chanpora. “The grenade exploded on the road without causing any loss of life or damage to property,” he said.

North

Authorities enforced curfew in Baramulla, Sopore and Kupwara towns to prevent people from taking to roads.  Hundreds of CRPF and policemen wearing riot and equipped with sophisticated weapons were deployed in lanes and by lanes of Baramulla to prevent people from staging protests. Police had sealed, Cement Bridge, Azad Gunj Bridge and SRTC Bridge with barricades and barbed wire to restrict the movement of people.

However, hundreds of people took to roads in old town Baramulla and protested against the killing of Faizan Buhroo and Fayaz Ahmad Banday in police action. They took out a procession and marched towards Eidgah. Chanting pro-freedom and anti-India slogans the protestors were demanding action against the killers of Faizan and Fayaz.  “We want arrest of SOG man Kak Mir and murder charges should be filed against him,” a protester said adding the government should not shelter the ‘criminal’.

The processionists were intercepted by police and CRPF men near Azad Gunj bridge. The cops fired tear smoke shells and resorted to heavy baton charges. The protesters retaliated by hurling stones and bricks towards them.  At least 12 persons sustained injuries in the clashes.

The residents of old town Baramulla said that wooden bridge in Old town suffered damage during clashes between protestors and cops.  Police alleged that the wooden bridge suffered damage after the protestors fired petrol bombs.

Hundreds of people also staged demonstration in Rafiabad and offered special prayers on the grave of Fayaz Ahmad Khanday.

Protests were also held at Palhallan, Pattan.  The cops lobbed tear smoke shells and resorted to baton charge to quell the protestors, who retaliated by hurling stones and bricks towards them. As the clashes continued, cops fired several rounds in air.  A police officer sustained injury in the leg during the clashes. The locals alleged that he was fired upon by his own personal security guard.

The clashes were also reported from curfew-hit Sopore.

The clashes also took place in Kupwara town, Lolab, Sogam, Trehgam, Kreeri and Kralpora areas in border district of Kupwara after Friday prayers. At least 15 persons including some cops were injured in the clashes.

The locals alleged that such heavy was tear gas shelling that some canisters exploded inside the compounds of residential houses. “Windowpanes of a local mosque were also damaged in the police action,” they alleged.

SDPO Uri Masroor Ahmad Mir also sustained injuries during the clashes in North Kashmir.

Meanwhile, defying curfew hundreds of youth from Papchan and Gamoora areas in Bandipora district took to roads after Friday prayers and tried to march towards the graveyard. However, they were intercepted by the police men near Nusoo, leading to clashes. The cops used force to disperse the protestors.

The residents complained that they were not allowed to offer Friday prayers in Jamia Masjid Bandipora.

The employees of essential services like Health, CAPD and PHE complained that CRPF is neither entertaining departmental identity cards nor curfew passes in Bandipora.

The students also complained that the cops did not them to appear in the examinations by refusing to entertain their I-cards as curfew passes.

The residents of Noorbagh Nowpora, Bandipora  alleged that a CRPF party returning from Bandipora town late in the evening went berserk and injured many persons including 80 year old Abdul Aziz Lone.

“The CRPF men without any provocation start beating people, who were coming out of a mosque near the Noor Masjid in the area. The troopers also barged into some residential houses and thrashed the women,” said residents.

They said one of the persons identified as Ghulam Hassan suffered fracture in arm in CRPF beating.

“It was only after the intervention of the local police that the troopers left the place,” they added.

SOUTH

Defying restrictions, youth took to roads in Pulwama and staged protest demonstrations. They clashed with the cops, who used force to disperse them. The cops also fired some rounds in air. Several persons were injured in the clashes.

In the clashes at Chantpora, Pulwama at least 15 persons including a DSP and a woman were injured. The woman identified as Muneera was shifted to SKIMS for specialized treatment.

Protests also took place at Mattan chowk, Kadipora and Malaknag areas in Islamabad district. Several persons sustained injuries in the clashes, which continued for some time.

People also staged peaceful protests at Bijbehara, Awantipora and other areas in South Kashmir.

Hundreds of people took out a peaceful procession at Bon Bazar Chowk in Shopian against the killings. Raising pro-freedom and pro-Islamic slogans, the protesters denounced the recent civilian killings. As the cops used force to disperse them, the youth pelted stones and bricks towards policemen, who retaliated by lobbing tear smoke shells. The pitched battles continued for some time

Dozens hurt in Kashmir clashes

gulf-times.com

23 07 2010

More than three dozen people were injured across the Kashmir Valley as stone pelting protesters clashed with the security forces yesterday.

In Srinagar city, clashes between protesters and security force erupted in Hyderpora, Ompora, Humhama, Fateh Kadal, Bemina and some other places, while violence was also reported in north Kashmir’s Handwara, Kralpora, Bandipora and Kupwara towns.

Large protests were carried out by anti-India slogan shouting crowds in Khanpora, Khajabagh and old town areas of north Kashmir’s Baramulla town.

Clashes also broke out in Palhalan town of Baramulla district where police claimed the Station House Officer (SHO) was fired at by the crowd.

“The officer was immediately taken for treatment to Srinagar,” a senior police officer said.
Clashes also took place at Chatpora village in Pulwama district where a woman suffered head injuries. “She was shifted to the local hospital where doctors attending on her said she was out of danger,” said a police officer.
Protesters took to the roads in Pampora, Dadsara and Anantnag towns too. Police used batons and tear smoke shells to disperse the mobs. Reports said over three dozen, including security men, were injured in the clashes.
Authorities had imposed restrictions in Srinagar and other places in the Valley yesterday to scuttle a separatist march and protests called against the alleged human rights violations by security forces.

The Hurriyat group, headed by Syed Ali Geelani, had called for a march to Khanqah-i-Moula mosque area in the Old city.

Geelani, who had been lodged in a hut in the high-security Chashma Shahi area after he was arrested last month under the Public Safety Act (PSA), was shifted to the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) on Thursday for treatment.

Police, protesters clash in Indian Kashmir

AFP

23 07 2010

SRINAGAR, India — Security forces fired teargas at stone-throwing protesters in Indian Kashmir as fresh protests against Indian rule broke out Friday, police and witnesses said.

A major clash took place in the northern town of Kupwara, where hundreds of residents took to the streets in defiance of a strict curfew, prompting volleys of teargas shells and baton charges from police.

There were also sporadic clashes in Kashmir’s main city Srinagar, and the northern towns of Palhalan and Baramulla.

Earlier, security forces had sealed off neighbourhoods in Srinagar with barbed wire.

« There is no curfew but strict restrictions are in force in some sensitive parts of Srinagar, » police officer Pervez Ahmed said.

Muslim separatists had urged Kashmiris to march to a holy shrine for a protest rally, but the site was sealed off by police.

The Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley has been in turmoil since a 17-year-old student was killed on June 11 by a police tear-gas shell.

Since then, security forces have been accused of killing 16 more civilians — mostly teenagers — as they struggled to contain growing anti-India protests.

The region has been under curfew for most of the past six weeks, with a separatist-called strike adding to the disruption of normal life.

A two-decade insurgency by militants who oppose New Delhi’s rule in Indian Kashmir has claimed more than 47,000 lives, according to an official count. Human rights groups say the toll is twice as high.

Clashes in Kashmir, curfew clamped in three towns

Thehindu.com

Srinagar, juillet 23, 2010

Stone-pelting mobs clashed with security personnel at nearly a dozen places in Kashmir after Friday prayers, leaving 15 persons, including seven security-men, injured even as authorities clamped curfew in three towns in the Valley.

Five policemen including a CRPF jawan were injured when stone-pelting protesters attacked a security vehicle outside Nishat police station on the banks of Dal Lake here shortly after Friday prayers, police said.

Police and CRPF personnel fired several warning shots and burst teargas shells, they said, adding three civilians were also injured in the clash.

Another group of youths tried to take out a march towards Hyderpora Chowk on the Srinagar airport road but were dispersed by police, who fired teargas shells and used batons.

Four persons including a policeman were injured in the violence.

A passing private vehicle was also damaged by the mob and its driver received minor injuries.

Deputy Superintendent of Police Fayaz Ahmad and a woman identified as Muneera were injured when they were hit by stones during a clash at Kakapora in Pulwama district of South Kashmir.

Defying curfew, groups of youth clashed with police and CRPF in Kupwara district town. Police burst teargas shells and batons to disperse the protestors.

Similar clashes were reported from Pattan and cement Bridge in Baramulla, Bandipora, Dooru in Anantnag and Shopian districts but there was no report of any casuality, they said.

The authorities imposed curfew in Kupwara and Bandipora district towns besides Sopore town in Baramulla district as a precautionary measure as the hardline faction of Hurriyat Conference led by jailed leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani had asked people to stage demonstrations after Friday prayers against the killing of several youth during clashes with security forces in the past one month.

Besides imposing curfew in the three North Kashmir towns this morning, the authorities also imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar.

Restrictions on the movement of the people were also imposed in Baramulla district of north Kashmir, Pulwama and Kulgam districts of south kashmir and budgam district of central Kashmir.

Informations

Kupwara is a town and a notified area committee in Kupwara District in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Among the many tourist places in Kupwara, Lolab Valley has special significance. Sogam is a Tehsil and a really beautiful place to visit for its meadows, mountains, gushing waters, and fresh air.

Bandipore (also spelled Bandipora, Bandipur, Bandipura) (Kashmiri: بنڈ پُور, बंडपूर, Bandapuur, Hindi: बांडीपुर, बांडीपोर, बांडीपोरा, बांडीपुरा; Urdu: بانڈی پور) is a new District in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is bounded on the west by Kupwara district on the south by ganderbal and baramulla District, on the east by Kargil district and on the north by Neelum District and on the north east by Skardu district, Pakistan. It is located on the northern banks of Wular Lake – the biggest lake of clean water in Asia. Bandipore town has a Nishat Bagh similar to the one in Srinagar. in kashmiri there is a famous phrase about Bandipora or in other words Bandipora is famous for three A’s 1. A’lim(knowledge), 2. Adab(good habits or literature) and 3. Aab(Water)

~ par Alain Bertho sur 24 juillet 2010.

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