{"id":259,"date":"2014-03-21T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/bandipora-erupts-in-protest-post-friday-prayer\/"},"modified":"2014-03-21T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T16:14:00","slug":"bandipora-erupts-in-protest-post-friday-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"Bandipora erupts in protest post Friday prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><b style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Srinagar:<\/b><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Hundreds of people held pro-freedom and anti-India protests at various places in north Kashmir\u2019s Bandipora district here after<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Friday<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">congregational prayers.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Witnesses said soon after<span>&nbsp;<\/span><span>Friday<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span>prayers, hundreds of people took to streets at Hajan and shouted pro-freedom slogans. The people were also shouting slogans against government forces.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u201cHundreds of people led by Muslim league leader Showkat Ahmad Hakeem started March from Jamia Masjid,\u201d one of the locals told GNS over phone.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">However, soon after protests, youth clashed with government forces deployed in the area. The forces resorted to teargas shelling which created panic in the area.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The clashed continued for about half-an-hour, witnesses said, adding: most of the shops in the area were shut after clashes.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">At Naidkhai \u2013 where a teenager, Farhat Ahmad Dar, was shot dead by police during clashes \u2013 protests and stone-hurling clashes took place after<span>&nbsp;<\/span><span>Friday<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span>prayers.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u201cSoon after<span>&nbsp;<\/span><span>Friday<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span>prayers, hundreds of people held pro-freedom and anti-India protests. Many of the protesters went to Shahgund \u2013 the native village of slan Farhat \u2013 to console his family,\u201d Mehraj-ud-Din, a local, told GNS.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">However, the clashes broke-out between government forces and youth which continued till evening till evening, witnesses said, adding no one was reported injured.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Protests also broke out at Shahgund Sadarkote and Vijpara areas of the district. The protesters were shouting pro-freedom slogans and demanded stern punishment against Farhat\u2019s killers. (GNS)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar:&nbsp;Hundreds of people held pro-freedom and anti-India protests at various places in north Kashmir\u2019s Bandipora district here after&nbsp;Fridaycongregational prayers. Witnesses said soon after&nbsp;Friday&nbsp;prayers, hundreds of people took to streets at Hajan and shouted pro-freedom slogans. The people were also shouting slogans against government forces. \u201cHundreds of people led by Muslim league leader Showkat Ahmad Hakeem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","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=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}