{"id":32362,"date":"2020-08-31T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T08:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=32362"},"modified":"2020-08-31T13:48:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T08:18:10","slug":"pdp-slams-police-action-on-mourners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=32362","title":{"rendered":"PDP slams police action on Mourners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Suhail Bukhari condemned \u201cthe use of brute force on the peaceful Muharram procession in Kashmir.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMilitating against a peaceful religious gathering has reflected the government\u2019s iron fist approach in Kashmir. Such ruthless measures have proved beyond doubt that religion is being demonised, democratic dissent criminalised and cruelty is being normalised in Kashmir,\u201d Mr. Bukhari said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>A spokesman of the Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) said the government curbs in Shia dominated areas \u201cwere highly regrettable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDespite showing exemplary discipline in following all SOPs, Shias were barred from participating in congregational mourning. We strongly condemn the use of force,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><em>With inputs from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/many-injured-as-shia-mourners-clash-with-police\/article32481351.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Suhail Bukhari condemned \u201cthe use of brute force on the peaceful Muharram procession in Kashmir.\u201d \u201cMilitating against a peaceful religious gathering has reflected the government\u2019s iron fist approach in Kashmir. Such ruthless measures have proved beyond doubt that religion is being demonised, democratic dissent criminalised and cruelty is being normalised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32362","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\/32362","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=32362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32362\/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=32362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}