[Daily Excelsior] The three separatist leaders who have been calling for protests and shutdowns in Kashmire since the killing of hard boy commander Burhan Wani in July this year, have called for a meeting on Tuesday during which they may decide respite from daily strikes.Hurriyat (G) chairman, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Hurriyat (M) chairman, Mirwaiz Molvi Umar Farooq, and chairman of JKLF chief, Mohammad Yasin Malik
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chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region...today held a meeting at the residence of Geelani for the first time in four months and discussed the situation in Kashmire.
These leaders have been issuing strike and protest programmes for last four months but they met for the first time today. The leaders rejected any economic package and stressed for political resolution of Jammu and Kashmire issue.
They said that the Government is squeezing and denying the political space to them. The leaders called for a meeting of different forums to discus the situation in Kashmire.
"All the forums among whom traders, educationists, transporters, civil society members, religious, social and political organizations ,bar association and people from other walks of life have been called on Tuesday, Nov 8 at 10.30 am at Hyderpora to jointly deliberate and discuss future course of action," a joint statement issued by these leaders reads.
Sources said that the separatist may decide to give some relaxation after calling for 4 month long strike and protests which paralysed life in Kashmire.
In the meantime, an attempt to torch Govt Middle school Kishwan in Trehgam area of district Kupwara was foiled today. Police said that miscreants tried to set ablaze the school but timely action by the locals saved the schools.
And in Hajjan area of Bandipara district, Government Higher Secondary School Hajjan was partially damaged as miscreants torched it this evening. The miscreants set the school afire but locals doused the flames during which one room of the school was damaged.
Amid shutdown in Kashmire, an increased rush of shoppers was seen today in the weekly Sunday market at commercial hub Lal Chowk and its adjacent areas.
Large number of people came out to shop at Sunday market that led to the traffic jam in the areas, which forced the commuters to take alternative routes.
The weekly market stretches from Tourist Reception Centre (TRC) to Polo View area, a distance of half a kilometre.
The shoppers from different areas thronged the market to buy items like clothes, blankets and other stuff.
Hundreds of street vendors had arrived early morning today to get space in the market while some among them didn’t find any space in the market and installed their stocks at an extended stretch of the market.
The weekly flea market started operating from the first week of October amid shutdown.
The normal life elsewhere remained paralysed today with shops and business establishment closed and public transport off the roads.