by Tahir Bhat
Srinagar
Members of Kashmir Tahreek i Khawateen along with its chairperson, Zamrooda Habib held a protest march on Wednesday at press enclave Srinagar against the killing of border residents across India and Pakistan.
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They were chanting slogans and holding banners and Placards displaying “No War But peaceful Resolution to Kashmir Dispute”, “ INDO PAK friendship” and “Stop state terrorism”, the protesters pitched for Indo-Pakistan friendship.
“India and Pakistan friendship is possible only after Kashmir issue gets resolved. She said that border killings are the fall out of Kashmir issue,” Zamrooda Habib told media persons here.
She said that the Kashmir issue needs to be resolved peacefully between India and Pakistan as there is no other way.
She also appealed the International community to mediate in the Kashmir issue and to pressurize India and Pakistan for a peaceful dialogue.
“We seek peace as the atmosphere of war has been created everywhere,” chairperson Kashmir Tehreek I Khawateen Zamrooda Habib said.
Pertinently, from past few months, a number of civilians have been killed in both Indian and Pakistan parts of Jammu Kashmir.
Earlier on Sunday, the artillery duels led to the annihilation of a family. Of the seven-member family, only two minor girls survived. Incidentally, one of the two surviving girls is stated to be critical and is yet to be out of danger, sources in Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu said.
“They were having morning tea and all of them were in the room,” Yasmeena’s one of the young females attending the two injured sisters in the GMC said. “Suddenly a bomb exploded in the house and five of them were dead.”
The family of Ramzan was a poor one. He was a labourer who would earn by working for others to raise his family. Almost all the five kids – three sons and two daughters – were enrolled in different schools. They were living in a Gujjar Kotha that was made of timber and soil.
“They were living in Deveta village which is part of the Balakote block and is closer to Rajouri than Poonch,” Yasmeen said. “It is almost 45 km from Rajouri.”
