Saturday, February 11, 2012
- Lahore: Shopping centre caught fire in Gulberg
- Australia beat Sri Lanka by 5 runs, remain unbeaten in tri-series
- Blasts, firing near PTIs rally leave 7 injured in Swabi
- Imran says will shoot down drones if comes to power
- 25 killed, 175 injured in Syria blasts
- Aqib Javed resigns as bowling coach
- NATO supplies from Pakistani airspace never stopped: Pentagon
- 11 militants killed, 19 injured in Orakzai operation
- Mansoor Ijaz to record statement via videolink on Feb 22
- LHC adjourns hearing of petition against TCP
Cops beat protesters in IHK; 60 wounded
SRINAGAR (AFP) - Sixty people were hurt on Friday as police in Indian-occupied Kashmir clashed with demonstrators in the regions summer capital, police and doctors said.
Police fired tear-gas and live rounds to disperse hundreds of anti-India protesters.
Forty demonstrators and 20 policemen were injured, police and doctors said. Among the injured was a young boy who sustained a bullet wound.
The demonstrations were in support of a strike call by APHC leader Syed Ali Geelani to protest the illegal occupation of land by the Indian army in Kashmir. Geelani led thousands of Kashmiris during one of the biggest demonstrations of the day in downtown Srinagar, witnesses said.
The strike closed down shops, schools and businesses.
Police fired tear-gas and live rounds to disperse hundreds of anti-India protesters.
Forty demonstrators and 20 policemen were injured, police and doctors said. Among the injured was a young boy who sustained a bullet wound.
The demonstrations were in support of a strike call by APHC leader Syed Ali Geelani to protest the illegal occupation of land by the Indian army in Kashmir. Geelani led thousands of Kashmiris during one of the biggest demonstrations of the day in downtown Srinagar, witnesses said.
The strike closed down shops, schools and businesses.
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