Srinagar, June 22 (KMS):
In occupied Kashmir, people in cities and towns erupted in celebration after Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by eight wickets to win the Twenty20 World Cup. Scores of youth poured on to the streets in Srinagar and fired crackers. They also chanted pro-Pakistan and pro-liberation slogans. Thousands of Kashmiris, including women and children, were glued to their television sets to watch the final.
"It is a great victory and we hope that one day we will merge with Pakistan," said the cricket fans.
The APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, senior Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, Zaffar Akbar Butt and other pro-movement leaders in their separate statements felicitated the people of Pakistan on the victory of Pakistani cricket team in the World cup.
The APHC Chairman, who remained under house arrest for the 24th day, today, in a statement said that visitors were not being allowed to meet him. He maintained that the Muzaffar Jan Commissions report had further confirmed that Indian troops were involved in the rape and murder of two women in Shopian.
Meanwhile, complete shutdown, marked with anti-India demonstrations, continued in Shopian for the 23rd consecutive day, today.
Indian troops, in their fresh act of state terrorism, martyred one innocent Kashmiri youth at Lower Seel in Bharat area of Doda. A civilian, who was injured in the landmine blast at Lal Bazar in Srinagar two days ago, succumbed to his injuries at a local hospital raising the death toll in the incident to two. Dead body of a woman was recovered from Mugal Mohalla in Chattabal area of Srinagar. Five boys were critically injured in an explosion at Hard-e-Shiva in Sopore.