Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Apr 9: Separa-tist Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) and hardline Huriyat Conference today called for a shutdown in Valley on April 12 against attacks on students of Kashmiri students in country’s educational institutes.
Addressing a news conference here, the JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik condemned the attacks on students of Valley in several education institutes of country including at Mewar University, Rajasthan. The JKLF chairman said the Valley students are being “beaten, harassed and intimidated in outside States and no one is paying heed to their miseries”.
Commenting over National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar episode, the JKLF chairman said no one in Kashmir interferes in the issues of education institutes and asserted that Kashmiris would uphold their age old religious harmony at any cost.
He alleged that the ongoing NIT row is an attempt to “hide the growing attacks on Valley students in outside States” and assured outstation students of security. The JKLF chairman appealed people to observe a shutdown on April 12 against these attacks. He said the JKLF would hold a sit-in on April 11 at Lal Chowk.
The hardline Hurriyat headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani also called for a shutdown on April 12 against the “continuous harassment and attacks on Kashmiri students in outside states”. Geelani and Malik also condemned the desecration of martyrs’ graveyard in Kareemabad village of Pulwama district.
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