Downtown traders call bandh today

Shehar-e-Khaas Traders Coordination Committee, an amalgam of various Downtown Srinagar trade bodies has called for Kashmir bandh on Sunday against the NIA summons to Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. The strike call has been supported by Beopar Mandal Mahrajgunj and Jamia Market.

The Coordination Committee chairman Nazir Shah said thesummons against Mirwaiz was a direct attack on religion unacceptable to thetrade community. Shah said the traders would hit the streets if the summons wasnot revoked.

   

“The Mirwaiz family has been at the forefront of religiousactivities and any attack on them is an attack on Kashmiris,” said Shah. Heappealed transporters to also observe the strike.

Earlier, Downtown traders held a meeting to discuss the NIAsummons which was chaired by its president Bashir Kenu, Khursheed Ahmad Dalal,president Beopar Mandal Maharaj Gunj.

Shah said New Delhi was pushing the people of Kashmir “intofire” by making an onslaught on socio-religious organisations and religiousleadership.

“From the ban on a socio-religious organisation to thecontinued and collective attempts being made by the Raj Bhawan and New Delhi toerode the special status of Jammu and Kashmir through tinkering of the Article370 and Article 35A, every sinister effort is being made to further the unrestin Kashmir,” said Shah.

Asking the Indian civil society to play their role, he alsocondemned the crackdown on the leadership and arrest spree.

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