SRINAGAR (PTI): The All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC), a combination of 27 organizations, had asked the people to resume the general strike against the siege of the shrine from 1600 hours Thursday.
It had also called upon people to take out protest rallies and demonstrations to register protest against the continuous siege.
Several militant organizations have given calls for “Hazratbal Chalo” (March towards Hazratbal) on Friday.
Security forces cordoned off the Hazratbal, Holiest mosque in the northern Indian Himalayan state of Jammu and Kashmir, on Oct,15 last with more than 50 militants holed up inside.
Militants holed up inside the shrine, said to house a hair from the beard of Prophet Mohammad, demanded among other things lifting of the siege, safe passage to them and presence of neutral observers.
Authorities had rejected all the demands and offered humane treatment to them “under the process of law’ once they surrender with their arms and ammunition.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 19, 1993
