{"id":2395,"date":"2014-05-09T13:31:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T13:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir-today.net\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2014-05-09T13:31:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T13:31:27","slug":"voters-thrashed-stripped-geelani-appeals-for-calm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=2395","title":{"rendered":"Voters thrashed, stripped: Geelani appeals for calm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar:\u00a0<\/strong>A day after voters were thrashed and stripped in North Kashmir by groups of youth, Chairman All Parties Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Geelani\u00a0<span>Friday<\/span>\u00a0expressed his displeasure over the incidents and appealed people to maintain calm.<\/p>\n<p>In a video appeal posted on YouTube, the octogenarian leader said: \u201cThere are reports of Sopore traders being asked to shut shops in Handwara and people from Kupwara and Handwara being troubled, this is unpleasant and is against the ethos of Islam and our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Groups of youth\u00a0<span>on Thursday<\/span>\u00a0in Baramulla town and Sopore area had stripped and thrashed voters from Kupwara district which saw a high voter turnout\u00a0<span>on Wednesday<\/span>. The glasses of many vehicles were also smashed.<\/p>\n<p>Reports said today traders from Sopore were asked to shut their shops in Handwara and were asked to retreat.<\/p>\n<p>Geelani said: \u201cThe voting process was over and we must live like brothers and must not indulge in activities that can lead to a civil war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cSuch acts would help India\u2019s designs on Kashmir and I appeal to all the people especially youth to refrain from such acts and live in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The resistance leader, who is under house arrest since his return from Indian capital in April, said: \u201cI hope everyone listens to my appeal and my Allah help us to come out of the oppression.\u201d (GNS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar:\u00a0A day after voters were thrashed and stripped in North Kashmir by groups of youth, Chairman All Parties Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Geelani\u00a0Friday\u00a0expressed his displeasure over the incidents and appealed people to maintain calm. In a video appeal posted on YouTube, the octogenarian leader said: \u201cThere are reports of Sopore traders being asked to shut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2395","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\/2395","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=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/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=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}