Protests broke out on Friday in some Shia-dominated areas of Kashmir, in conjunction with Magam and Budgam, in opposition to the US-Israel strikes on Iran, officials said.
Apprehending the protests on the final Friday of Ramzan, restrictions were imposed this morning in Srinagar and other parts of the Valley, particularly the Shia-dominated areas. The constraints on the assembly of of us were imposed in the morning as a precautionary measure to take care of up legislation and mutter in stare of the possibility of protests, the officials said.
The protesters raised slogans in opposition to the US and Israel aggression in Iran, and in pork up of Palestine. The officials said that the protests beget remained serene to this level and added that the matter is being monitored closely.
Juma-tul-Vida, the final Friday of Ramzan, is furthermore being noticed as Youm-ul-Quds to proper team spirit with Palestine and there are apprehensions of anti-Israel protests after the congregational prayers.
The authorities furthermore shut the historical Jamia Masjid in Nowhatta locality of Srinagar.
“On the final Friday of Ramzan, when tens of hundreds derive from cities and villages for prayers and supplication at the historical Jama Masjid Srinagar, its gates beget as soon as extra been locked from both aspect,” Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said in a put up on X.
He said it became as soon as the seventh consecutive one year that “the rulers beget denied permission to Muslims to hope right here”.
“As Israel has forcibly shut the gates of Masjid al-Aqsa during Ramzan, an analogous painful actuality is witnessed right here. Our hearts bleed. Shame on of us that lock the properties of Allah in opposition to the faithful,” the Mirwaiz added.
