{"id":2236,"date":"2014-05-06T14:26:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T14:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir-today.net\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2014-05-06T14:26:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T14:26:54","slug":"mirwaiz-reiterates-boycott-strike-call-for-north-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=2236","title":{"rendered":"Mirwaiz reiterates boycott, strike call for North Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Terms Pak army chief\u2019s statement \u2018realistic\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Srinagar:\u00a0<\/strong>Reiterating the call for boycott in North Kashmir, Huriyat Conference (M) led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Tuesday urged people to stay away from the polls scheduled to be held in Baramulla parliamentary constituency on May 7.<\/p>\n<p>According to the KNS correspondent, Mirwaiz while speaking in the convention of Awami Majlis Amal (AMA) stated that the people of North Kashmir must follow the suits of the Srinagar and South Kashmir so that a clear message is given to the outer world. Kashmir\u2019s chief cleric also urged people to observe complete shutdown in North Kashmir against the elections being held for the Lok Sabha seat.<\/p>\n<p>The convention led by Mirwaiz also hailed the recent statement of Pakistan\u2019s chief of Army staff, terming it a \u2018realistic\u2019 one. It was also observed that the role of Pakistan in supporting the ongoing struggle has been tremendous and encouraging. \u201cThe country is not only supporting Kashmir cause at international level but is also striving for the people here so that right to self determination could be given to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The convention also took a jibe at what it termed the double standards being adopted vis-\u00e0-vis the recent statement of Pak army chief. It stated that the first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru promised people their birth right and that it is the moral responsibility of the establishment of the country at present to fulfill the unfulfilled. Mirwaiz has also condemned the killing of a 26-year old youth at Nawa Kadal on April 30 and the use of force on the \u2018peaceful protesters\u2019. It expressed solidarity with Bashir\u2019s family at this time of great loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terms Pak army chief\u2019s statement \u2018realistic\u2019 Srinagar:\u00a0Reiterating the call for boycott in North Kashmir, Huriyat Conference (M) led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Tuesday urged people to stay away from the polls scheduled to be held in Baramulla parliamentary constituency on May 7. According to the KNS correspondent, Mirwaiz while speaking in the convention of Awami [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2236","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\/2236","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=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/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=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}