{"id":4445,"date":"2014-07-06T13:38:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T13:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir-today.net\/?p=4445"},"modified":"2014-07-06T13:38:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T13:38:54","slug":"shabir-shah-arrested-pattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=4445","title":{"rendered":"Shabir Shah arrested at Pattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Was scheduled to address people at Handwara<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Srinagar:\u00a0<\/strong>Senior Huriyat Conference JK leader Shabir Ahmad Shah was arrested\u00a0<span>on Sunday<\/span>\u00a0while on a way to address people at \u00a0North Kashmir\u2019s Handwara area.<\/p>\n<p>The HCJK spokesman in a party handout issued to KNS stated that as per program Hurriyat Conference Jammu Kashmir leader Shabir Ahmad Shah was scheduled to address a public gathering at Kralgund Handwara. As Shah was on way to the venue, he was prevented by police at Pattan from marching ahead and was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson while condemning the arrest of Shabir Ahmad Shah lashed out at administration and termed the act as autocratic and dictatorial. \u201cThose who claim to be the champions of democracy have no right to resort to undemocratic means and keep their political opponents away from political sphere,\u201d he said, adding that the so-called government cannot break the resolve of freedom loving people by such means.<\/p>\n<p>He said Shabir Ahmad Shah was to address the public gathering at Kralgund, Handwara and had to appeal people to stay away from upcoming assembly elections so as not to let the sacrifices of those 5 lac martyrs go waste who laid their precious lives for the freedom against the forcible occupation of India. According to spokesperson, the Freedom Party representatives of Handwara had made full arrangements for Shabir Ahmad Shah\u2019s speech but got extremely disappointed as the so-called rulers arrested Shah on way.<\/p>\n<p>However, Muhammad Yasin Ataai along with other companions by giving slip to police succeeded in reaching the venue. Ataai along with Peer Inaayat ullah and Abdul Waheed who were already present there addressed the gathering. In their speeches, the leaders urged people to give a befitting reply to such highhandedness of government by completely boycotting the upcoming assembly elections. \u201cThis was the message of Shabir Ahmad Shah Sahib to you,\u201d the leaders said while addressing the public gathering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was scheduled to address people at Handwara Srinagar:\u00a0Senior Huriyat Conference JK leader Shabir Ahmad Shah was arrested\u00a0on Sunday\u00a0while on a way to address people at \u00a0North Kashmir\u2019s Handwara area. The HCJK spokesman in a party handout issued to KNS stated that as per program Hurriyat Conference Jammu Kashmir leader Shabir Ahmad Shah was scheduled to [&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-4445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445","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=4445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}