Srinagar, July 14: Hurriyat Conference (M) on Wednesday accused the government of pursuing dictatorial and anti-people policies in Valley, terming these as highly condemnable. 
 “The continued curfew for the past 17 days in the densely populated Shahr-e-Khas has made miserable the life of people there. The deployment of armed forces in the interior lanes of Shahr-e-Khas has caused sense of insecurity among the inhabitants. These forces, on one or the other pretext, barge into the residential houses of people and beat the inmates and ransack their household belongings to provoke them to resort to violence so that they (armed forces) could have a justification to open fire and kill them,” said a spokesman of the Hurriyat in a statement today, adding that “The conglomerate is also receiving reports of alarming situation from other parts of the Valley. Telephones and other means of communication have been suspended in district Varmul to keep the world unaware about worsening situation of the district.”
  The spokesman said the ongoing peaceful protest demonstrations by the people of Batamaloo against the recent killings in the area by the government forces were genuine and the Hurriyat supported their demand for bringing the killers to justice.
 Meanwhile, Hurriyat has strongly condemned the continued house arrest of its chairman Mirwaiz Moulvi Muhammad Umar Farooq.

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