SRINAGAR: The hardline faction of the Hurriyat Conference led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani has asked people to resume businesses on Saturday.
There will not be any shutdown from Saturday till Monday, senior leader of the group, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai told freepresskashmir.com.
He said the future programme regarding the ongoing protest would be chalked out in consultation with other resistance groups.
Sehrai has asked people to offer special prayers for “Afzal Guru in particular and all the martyrs in general” after the evening prayers.
He has asked people to chant slogans in support of the demand for Afzal Guru’s body and for the freedom of Kashmir from Indian rule.
Sehrai has also asked people to campaign for the return of late Guru’s body through social media networks like Facebook and through graffiti on walls.
The leader said his group had instructions from Syed Ali Shah Geelani for a positive response to the Mirwaiz-led Hurriyat’s offer of framing a joint strategy for taking the ongoing protests forward.
“The other groups have been issuing statements that we need to have a joint strategy for an effective campaign. We are going to do accordingly from now on,” he said.
Sehrai said Geelani, who is detained at his residence in Delhi, had given these instructions before his contact with family and colleagues was snapped by the government.
