{"id":39,"date":"2014-04-10T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/muftis-cavalcade-attacked-in-shopian\/"},"modified":"2014-04-10T15:32:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T15:32:00","slug":"muftis-cavalcade-attacked-in-shopian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Mufti\u2019s cavalcade attacked in Shopian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><b><span style=\"color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">No aerial firing, was a minor incident: Police<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><b><span style=\"color: red;\">Srinagar: <\/span><\/b>The cavalcade of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, patron Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)&nbsp;today came under attack from stone throwers at Neemander village in Shopian district.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Official sources revealed that the former chief minister Mufti was leading a road show and after reaching Meemander, some angry youth came out and raised anti-India and pro-freedom slogans besides pelting stones on some security vehicles in Mufti\u2019s cavalcade. Locals informed KNS that half a dozen vehicles including the jammer comprising Muftis cavalcade were damaged during the stone pelting incident at Neemander.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Sources revealed that the district administration had permitted the PDP patron to lead his rallies at six identified places in the district but on the insistence of the party activists, Mufti led the rally at 11 locations. \u201cIt was the 11th&nbsp;location (Neemander) where some youth came out and started pelting stones on security vehicles. The cavalcade had also adopted a different route other than the permitted one,\u201d official sources added.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Meanwhile, according to KNS Shopian correspondent, police had to fire tear smoke shells to disperse the mob at Neemander and Bon Bazar till the security vehicles adopted another route via main town to take the PDP patron out from place of occurrence.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Locals informed KNS that yesterday evening some unknown men had used mosque loud speakers appealing people to observe a complete strike in the town&nbsp;on Thursday. The strike affected the normal life in the morning. &#8220;The entire market was open after few hours of strike,&#8221; a local informed KNS on phone.&nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">When contacted SP Shopian, Shoket Ahmad told KNS, \u201cIt was a minor incident. Few stones were pelted on some security vehicles at Neemander. Jammer was not damaged. There was no aerial firing. But the situation is under control.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;When asked about the strike, the SP Shopian said that the town observed strike but only for few hours in the morning.&nbsp;(KNS)<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No aerial firing, was a minor incident: Police Srinagar: The cavalcade of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, patron Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)&nbsp;today came under attack from stone throwers at Neemander village in Shopian district. Official sources revealed that the former chief minister Mufti was leading a road show and after reaching Meemander, some angry youth came out [&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-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","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=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}