Srinagar, May 23: Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani has called for shutdown on May 29 to mark the third anniversary of Shopian tragedy.
 "On this day special prayers will be offered for Asiya and Nelofar and an oath reaffirmed that the supreme sacrifices offered by our daughters will not be forgotten," Geelani said in a statement today.
 He said: “If at all the murderers of Asiya and Neelofar are provided protection under a well thought-out plan, it will not remain hidden from people of Kashmir and they will not forgive them."
 Paying rich tributes to Asiya and Neelofar, Geelani said "they were not daughters of a particular family but the honour and dignity of whole Ummah and it is our religious and moral duty to always remember them."
 Meanwhile, the Hurriyat spokesman Ayaz Akbar said the prevailing situation in Kashmir cannot be described as peace. “Kashmiris have always been peace loving and the armed forces operating in the Kashmir are responsible for whatever violence and bloodshed is taking place," he said.
 Ayaz alleged that the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was giving a "wrong interpretation of the situation prevailing in Kashmir to realize his own political ends." “He is ignoring the other and important side of the picture. The real picture of the Kashmir situation is the mass revolutions that took place in Kashmir from 2008 to 2010 when lakhs of people used to come on streets. Let the government remove restrictions on the political activities of Hurriyat and its chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani, it would witness same scenes everywhere in Srinagar," he said.

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