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Saturday, September 19, 2015

ISIS, Pak flags again at Srinagar Jamia Masjid


Dukhtaraan-e-Millat chief Asiya Andrabi arrested

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
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SRINAGAR, Sep 18: Holding separatist hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani under "house arrest" and detaining Dukhtaraan-e-Millat Chairperson Asiya Andrabi and General Secretary Fehmeeda Sofi in a previously registered FIR did not prevent a crowd from waving ISIS and Pakistan flags on occasion of the Friday congregational prayers at Jamia Masjid in downtown Srinagar.

Official sources said that Geelani was not allowed to move out of his Hyderpora residence as the authorities feared he could create some turbulence with his statements and actions ahead of the festival of Eid-ul-Azha. Police raided Ms Andrabi's residence in Soura area and arrested her, alongwith her organisation's second-in-command Fehmeeda Sofi, in an FIR registered against them earlier this year for hoisting Pakistani flag and singing Pakistan's national anthem.

Those booked in identical matters include Massarat Aalam who has been rearrested and Geelani who has not been arrested till date. The Dukhtaraan-e-Millat leaders were arrested for the first time on Friday since Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s taking over as Chief Minister on March 1st this year. Sources said that Andrabi and Sofi were lodged in Women's Police Station at Rambagh. Police were likely to obtain remand from a court for their detention and custodial interrogation.

Friday afternoon congregational prayers went on smoothly at Jamia Masjid. However, groups of youths shouted anti-India, pro-Pakistan and pro-Azadi slogans while the people were coming out of the mosque. They waved ISIS and Pakistani flags besides portraits of Jamiat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Sayeed, Jaish-e- Mohammad leader Maulana Masood Azhar and Hizbul Mujahideen's youth icon Burhan Wani.

Ding-dong clashes took place between the separatist demonstrators and Police at four places, including at Jamia Masjid, in downtown Srinagar.

Reports of similar ding-dong clashes came in from Anantnag township of South Kashmir.

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