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SRINAGAR
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday chaired a cabinet meeting at Lahore Governor House in which top government officials condemned the “labeling” of slain militant commander Burhan Wani as a “terrorist” by the Indian government.
Federal Minister for Ports and Shipping Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo told The Dawn that cabinet members agreed all Pakistani embassies worldwide as well as the Foreign Office should “register a protest against Indian atrocities in this part of Kashmir” by submitting resolutions to the United Nations.
Members of the cabinet also decided to call a joint session of parliament to discuss the Kashmir issue, but a date for the session was not agreed upon, Bizenjo said.
The government also announced that Pakistan would “observe a black day over violence in Kashmir on July 19”.
Wani was killed last Friday by forces in a forested village in the southern Kashmir’s Kokernag area. Two other members of Wani’s group were also killed in the operation.
Mass protests erupted across Kashmir, majorly in Southern part, after Burhan was killed. At least 40 civilians were killed by forces during protests and over 3000 are admitted to hospitals who were injured in bullet and pellet firing. An SPO too was killed after protestors pushed a moving police bunker in to a river South Kashmir’s Islamabad.
In his early 20s, Wani was born in the southern town of Tral and was a teenager in 2010 when he and his elder brother was beaten by troops on patrol near their home.
Shortly after, he joined militancy and eventually became the iconic face of Kashmir’s militancy.
The son of a school principal, he regularly posted video messages online dressed in military fatigues and “invited young men to join the movement against Indian rule”.
