Complete shutdown was observed in Indian Held Kashmir against anti-Muslim activities of extremist Hindu bodies, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal and Shiv Sena in Rajouri and other areas of Held Jammu region.
Call for the shutdown had been jointly given by the trade bodies while the All Parties Hurriyet Conference Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, and the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chief, Muhammad Yasin Malik, had supported it, KMS reported on Sunday.
Shops, business establishments and educational institutions remained closed while movement of traffic on the roads was very thin.
The activists of Jammu and Kashmir Salvation Movement held demonstrations in different areas of the held territory against the burning of a flag with holy verses by the Hindu fanatics in Rajouri.
Senior Hurriyet leader, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, in a statement in Held Srinagar said that India should read writing on the wall that it would never succeed to crush the liberation sentiment of the Kashmiri people and it must settle the Kashmir dispute at the earliest for its own good. The forum patronised by the veteran Kashmiri leader, Syed Ali Geelani, in a statement in Held Srinagar expressed serious concern over the continued harassment of Tehreek-e-Hurriyet's District President for Kupwara, Muhammad Yousuf Lone, and his family members by a Major of Indian occupation army at Karalapora in Kupwara.