Srinagar: Senior JKLF leader and zonal president Noor Mohammad kalwal was today arrested along with zonal vice president Mohammad Siddeq shah, zonal general secretary sheikh Abdul Rashid and other’s when they were on their way to Kunan- Poshpora to attend a protest rally scheduled to be held on the completion of 23 years of Kunan-Poshpora mass rape by Indian army. The arrested leaders while moving towards Kunan-Poshpora were stopped by police near Parimpora and arrested. However another delegation of JKLF led by senior leader master Sheikh Mohammad Afzal reached Kunan-Poshpora and led the protest rally. Master Sahib was accompanied by zonal vice secretary farooq ahmad dar, district president Rafiq Ahmad War, secretary Abdul Majeed Shah, Mohammad Azeem Zargar, Ghulam Nabi Mir, Mushtaq Ahmad Lone and Bashir Ahmad Wani etc. the protest rally was addressed by master Afzal and Ghulam Mohammad Dar (president of the committee seeking justice for Kunan-Poshpora victims). Addressing the protest rally JKLF senior leader Sheikh Mohammad Afzal condemned the arrest of JKLF leaders. He said that on this very day on 23rd February 1991 Indian army after besieging the Kunan-Poshpora village attacked the chastity of women and more than 100 women fell to these savages. He said that 23 years have passed but till date no one has been arrested or even charge sheeted. This speaks volumes about the criminal mentality of Indian state and its Kashmiri puppets. He said that Indian army and forces have been using rape as a weapon of war against Kashmiris and this cannot be done without the orders of political leadership. He said that actually this is state sponsored terrorism unleashed against the people of Kashmir but these tyrants have to understand that they will have to reply for their criminal attitude and acts against the people of Jammu Kashmir. He said that these criminal acts of state terrorism cannot deter us from the path of resistance and the day is not far when Jammu Kashmir will emerge as an independent nation.

Meanwhile another delegation of JKLF led by district president Pulwama Javed Ahmad Bhat along with Tariq Ahmad and Dawood Ahmad today visited Prichoo Pulwama and attended the Fateh khwani of martyr Tawseef Ahmad. On the occasion Javed Ahmad Bhat while addressing the gathering paid rich tributes the martyr. After the Fateh khawani police and forces indiscriminately fired upon the attendants of this condolence meeting with pellet guns and teargas shells injuring dozens of men and women. JKLF condemns this police action and terms it as criminal and act of state terrorism.