SRINAGAR, May 11 (TNS): Yet another Indian Military soldier committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle at his camp in Kunzer area of Baramulla district, mounting the toll to 401, Indian media reported on Friday.
This incident of suicide raised the number of such deaths among the Indian troops and police personnel in the territory to 401 since 2007.
Meanwhile In Occupied Kashmir, complete shutdown was observed in Pulwama and Shopian districts against the recent killings by the Indian troops.
All shops, business establishments, government and private offices were closed and roads. Train service between Srinagar and Banihal was suspended.
Students of Government Degree College in Sumbal area of Bandipora district, today, held a protest demonstration against the killings. They shouting pro-freedom and anti-India slogans and also offered funeral prayers in absentia for the martyrs.
The forum led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq reacting to the assertions of Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat about Kashmir said he needs to ask his political bosses the basic question why does a regular army need to be stationed in Jammu and Kashmir outside people’s homes in such huge numbers. General Rawat in a media interview in New Delhi had ruled out freedom for the Kashmiri people.
Noted Indian political analyst O P Shaw talking to a Srinagar-based English daily over phone from New Delhi urged the Indian government to hold dialogue with all stakeholders to end bloodshed in Occupied Kashmir .
