Geelani calls for poll boycott

In the backdrop of a shutdown call given by Majlis-e-Mashawrat, Huriyat Conference (G) Chairman Syed Ali Geelani Friday asked people to boycott the elections and maintain order and discipline in the ongoing ‘resistance movement’. He also stressed for a common minimum program to effectively carry forward the struggle.

Wamiq Farooq remembered

Calling for ‘boycott’ of pro-India political parties and their workers, resistance leaders today reiterated that “no one will be allowed to sell the blood of martyrs and the freedom struggle will be carried forward till it reaches its logical end.”

Addressing a seminar, organised on third death anniversary of 17-year-old teenager, Wamiq Farooq Wani of Rainawari, who was allegedly killed by government forces by firing teargas shell on his head in 2010 at Old City’s Gani Memorial stadium.