The authorities have put almost all Hurriyat leaders, including Syed Ali Gilani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai under house arrest or in jails.

Chairman APHC says if India brings its entire armed forces into occupied Jammu & Kashmir, even then people of Kashmir will not abandon struggle for their rights and liberation.

The Southall Multicultural Community members started walk on Broadway towards the Abu Bakr Mosque and raised anti-India and pro-freedom slogans.

They urged the United Nations to decisively move towards implementing its resolutions that pledged the right of self-determination to Kashmiris.

It is the second time that senior opposition figures were denied entry to the state since Modi’s August 5 announcement.

Indian authorities also continue to impose information blockade as TV channels & internet links are snapped and restrictions on media remain in place since 5th of this month.

Police tried to enter Soura, the main village, as hundreds of locals staged a protest march against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision to withdraw special status of Jammu and Kashmir.