{"id":15479,"date":"2019-01-13T22:06:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T16:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=15479"},"modified":"2019-01-13T22:06:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T16:36:48","slug":"firing-on-mourners-in-shopian-mehbooba-says-it-might-lead-to-further-alienation-in-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=15479","title":{"rendered":"Firing on mourners in Shopian: Mehbooba says it might lead to further alienation in Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>O<\/i><\/strong><i> Mehbooba was responding to reports about the forces\u2019 firing at mourners during the funeral of slain Al Badr Commander Zeenat-ul-Islam at a village in south Kashmir\u2019s Shopian district.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said the incident of \u2018aerial firing\u2019 on mourners in Shopian might lead to \u2018further anger and alienation\u2019 in Kashmir.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Mehbooba was responding to reports about the forces\u2019 firing at mourners during the funeral of slain Al Badr Commander Zeenat-ul-Islam at a village in south Kashmir\u2019s Shopian district.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>She said the aerial firing at Sugan Shopian to stop the people from participating in the slain militant\u2019s funeral is very \u2018unfortunate and disturbing.\u2019<\/i><br \/>\n<i>\u201cReports of aerial firing at Sugan Shopian to stop the crowd from participating in the funeral prayers of a local militant, are very unfortunate and disturbing . Such interference in the religious affairs is undesirable and may backfire leading to further anger and alienation,\u201d she tweeted.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Mehbooba Mufti<\/i><br \/>\n<i>\u2714<\/i><br \/>\n<i>@MehboobaMufti<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Reports of aerial firing at Sugan Shopian to stop the crowd from participating in the funeral prayers of a local militant , are very unfortunate and disturbing . Such interference in the religious affairs is undesirable and may backfire leading to further anger and alienation.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>451<\/i><br \/>\n<i>2:18 PM &#8211; Jan 13, 2019<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Twitter Ads info and privacy<\/i><br \/>\n<i>372 people are talking about this<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Earlier today, at least eleven civilians were injured after the forces fired live ammunition and pellets at the protesters in the village.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Reports said that the forces had blocked all roads leading to Sugan village to limit the number of mourners gathering for funeral of Islam who was killed by the forces yesterday evening in Yaripora area of Kulgam.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Witnesses said that clashes erupted soon after the forces resorted to aerial firing to chase away the people assembling in the village.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>They said that forces fired live ammunition and pellets at the protesters, resulting in injuries to at least eleven c<\/i>ivilians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Mehbooba was responding to reports about the forces\u2019 firing at mourners during the funeral of slain Al Badr Commander Zeenat-ul-Islam at a village in south Kashmir\u2019s Shopian district. Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said the incident of \u2018aerial firing\u2019 on mourners in Shopian might lead to \u2018further anger and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}