SRINAGAR: The joint advisory council of various separatist and religious organizations in Kashmir – which was formed to chalk out a protest strategy for return of Afzal Guru’s body – has issued its first programme.
In a mailed statement, the Majlis e Mashawarat has asked people to observe a strike this Friday and attach red ribbons on their vehicles, shops and houses on Saturday.
The ribbons in red, it said, would be symbolic of the “sacrifices of the tens of thousands of youth whose blood was shed by the Indian government”.
On Wednesday the council has called for protests by lawyers and has asked people in south Kashmir to hold protests at district headquarters.
The council has asked people to chant slogans like “We want freedom”, “Return the body of the martyr” and “Allah o Akbar”.
The council meeting was attended by members of both the factions of separatist alliance, Hurriyat Conference besides the pro-Independence Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, politico-religous Jamaat-e-Islami and women’s separatist organisation, Dukhtaraan-e-Millat, the statement added.
Meanwhile a spokesperson in behalf of general secretary of the Hurriyat Conference (G), Gulam Nabi Sumji has told KNS that he was not consulted
before drafting the protest programme announced by the joint council. But he said he won’t oppose the programme.
“Being the General Secretary of the Hurriyat Conference, neither he nor any other member of our party were consulted”, the spokesperson said while refusing to elaborate.
