After Wani, Hizb appoints Ghaznavi as new commander
SRINAGAR: Four days after the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani, the banned terrorist organisation appointed Mehmood Ghaznavi as its new commander. Syed Salahuddin, Hizb’s supreme commander based in POK, made the announcement while addressing the command council meet on Tuesday.
“We won’t allow the sacrifice of Burhan Wani to waste, and his mission will be taken to its logical conclusion,” Salahuddin’s said. He also said Hizb will hold a function on July 13 at Muzaffarabad in POK, which will be attended by United Jihad Council and All Parties Hurriyat Conference.One Zahoor Ahmed was killed on Tuesday as the death toll mounted to 33 with another one of the injured persons succumbing. Police firing also left 14 people injured; four of them are critical. “At Kralpora, Kupwara, a mob attacked the police station and set a police vehicle on fire. While dealing with the attack, one person was injured who later succumbed to his injuries,” a police spokesman said.
Thousands of people in trucks, cars and on foot travelled to Tral in Pulwama district despite curfew to attend fourth-day mourning for Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani .
Reports said mourners carried Wani’s portraits and Pakistani flags as they marched towards Tral’s Eidgah chanting pro-freedom and anti-India slogans. Reports said graffiti across Tral read: “Burhan humara zinda hai (our Burhan is alive).” Residents had set up langars (community kitchens) to feed visitors. Meanwhile, separatists including Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik in a joint statement asked the J&K police to look inward and ask themselves why they have become an instrument of repression at the hands of Indian authorities and killing and injuring their own. This was notwithstanding the fact that the Mirwaiz is under Z plus security provided by the Centre.
Local journalist Showkat Ahmad Dar told TOI big hoardings en route Wani’s grave called him “the pride of nation”. He said Pakistani flags were hoisted on Wani’s house as well. “…Pro-Pakistan slogans have been inscribed on walls and other structures which highlight pro-Pakistan sentiments of the people participating in the fourth-day mourning,” said Dar.
Dar said people from the Valley’s almost all districts visited Wani’s house where his father, Muzaffar Wani, greeted them and thanked them for expressing solidarity with him. He said presence of security forces in Pulwama district was nominal, but no cops or paramilitary forces were visible in Tral.
Jamaat-e-Islami followers like Wani’s father do not observe fourth-day mourning and consider it against the tenants of Islam. The mourning lasts for three days and normal work is resumed on the fourth day. But Wani’s family observed the fourth day perhaps for political reasons to stretch the agitation.
Officials said security forces exercised restraint as per chief minister Mehbooba Mufti’s instructions. Over 500 security personnel have sustained injuries while quelling mobs over the last three days.
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