Tehreek-e-Hurriyat district president Ang Hafizullah Mir shot dead

Srinagar: Unidentified gunmen on Tuesday morning shot dead Tehreek-e-Hurriyat district president Anantnag Hafizullah Mir in this south Kashmir district. His wife was wounded in the attack. United Jehad Council (UJC) Chairman Syed Sallah Ud Din, Hurriyat Conference (M) Chairnan Mirwaiz Molvi Umar Farooq and Jamaat e Islami in their separate statements condemned Hafizullah Mir’s killing
Reports said that gunmen shot Mir at his home in Badru-Akingam area of Achabal. He was rushed to district hospital Anantnag where doctors declared him dead on arrival.
Medical Superintendent district hospital Anantnag, Dr Abdul Majeed Mehrab while confirming the death said Mir had been hit in chest and abdomen. Mir was released from jail last month after serving two-year detention. In a statement released few days ago, TeH had alleged that Mir was receiving life threats over the phone.
“Since last one month some unknown people [were] suspiciously roaming around his house and at times knocking the doors and windows and inquiring about Mir Hafizullah that makes the whole family frightened,” a spokesman of TeH had said in the statement.
Condemning the killing of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat leader Mir Hafizullah in Anantnag, United Jihad Council chairman and Hizb supremo Syed Sallahuddin on Tuesday claimed it was a “handiwork of Indian agencies.” While expressing anguish over Hafizullah’s killing, Sallahuddin, in a statement issued on Tuesday, said the “machinations of Indian agencies and their supporters in Kashmir have been exposed with this killing.” He said the Indian agencies have started target killings of pro-freedom leadership, “which in itself is the acceptance of India’s failure in Kashmir.” Hafizullah was shot dead by unknown gunmen at his home in Achabal area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district Tuesday morning. His wife was also injured in the attack.Hizb chief, according to the statement, also appealed to the world human rights bodies to take the notice of “Indian’s policy of oppression” in Kashmir. Salahuddin also paid tributes to the four Hizb militants killed in Shopian gunfight earlier Tuesday, saying “the blood of martyrs will not go in vain.”
Condemning the killing of Tehreek e Hurriyat district president Hafizullah Mir, Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Tuesday said he was “shocked and deeply saddened” by the killing of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat leader Hafizullah Mir. “Shocked and deeply saddened by the killing of resistance leader Hafizullah Mir of Anantnag released from jail after two years, who was being repeatedly threatened for past one month!” said the Mirwaiz on Twitter. “In the meanwhile, Indian forces pumped bullets onto protesting civilians in Nandigam Shopian not even sparing young girls three of who have critical bullet wounds! Persecution of leadership continues as Yasin Sahab is again arbitrarily detained (sic),” tweeted the Mirwaiz.
Condemning the killing of Hafizullah Mir the Jama’at-e-Islami on Tuesday said that the killing of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat (TeH) was part of a “well-hatched conspiracy” to suppress genuine Kashmiri voices.
“The killing of one more Tehreek-e-Hurriyat leader, Hafiz-ullah Mir of Akingam, Islamabad by unknown gunmen in the broad-daylight in his home clearly depicts that this series of mysterious killings is a part of a well-designed plan hatched in order to suppress the genuine voice of the oppressed people of Jammu and Kashmir,” said a spokesman of Jama’at, in a statement.
While condemning the murder, Jama’at demanded an impartial probe into all these “inhuman acts” by some international judicial commission to unveil the real culprits behind this vicious deign.
“Jama’at extends its total solidarity with the bereaved family and wishes an early recovery of the slain leader’s wife who was injured in the attack,” added the statement.
Jama’at also condemned the firing by government forces on protesters in Nadigam village of Shopian.