A call for a march to the grand mosque, located in Nowhatta area in downtown Srinagar, had been given by the resistance leaders, Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik
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chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region..., to mark the Youm-e-Istaqlal.
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it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
the authorities imposed curfew and other restrictions in Srinagar and other towns to stop people from marching to the mosque. They also sealed the mosque, disallowing people to offer Friday prayers there.
At least 10 youths suffered injuries at the hands of security personnel across the India-held Valley.
According to residents of Nowhatta, nobody was allowed to proceed to the historical mosque, which was built by Sultan Sikandar, the father of Zainul Aabideen (popularly known as Budshah), between 1389 and 1420.
Continuous siege of the mosque since July 8 has evoked widespread condemnation from various quarters.
The Mirwaiz, who was sent to his room on Thursday, tried to defy the curbs and march towards the mosque, where he used to deliver sermons, but was whisked away by police.
Talking to news hounds outside his Nigeen residence before his detention, the Mirwaiz said the anti-Moslem regime had once again barred Moslems from offering Friday prayers at Jamia Masjid and other main mosques across held Kashmire.