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Police block JKLF’s protest march from PoK to LoC

Agitators staging a sit-in at Jaskool, 8 km from the frontier.

Updated - October 07, 2019 01:29 am IST - Islamabad

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Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front supporters march to the LoC on the outskirts of Muzaffarabad on October 5, 2019.

Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front supporters march to the LoC on the outskirts of Muzaffarabad on October 5, 2019.

The police have blocked a march by thousands of people in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir to the Line of Control in protest against the lockdown on the Indian side.

The forces placed shipping containers on the road and deployed a large contingent of officers near Jaskool, 8 km from the LoC, to stop the supporters of the Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front, which announced it intended to cross the line to help Kashmiris under “Indian oppression”.

Abdul Hameed Butt, a JKLF leader, said on Sunday that the protesters would stage a sit-in until the blockade was removed.

Arshad Naqvi, a police officer, said the protesters would not be allowed to continue because the threat of an “unprovoked enemy fire”.

Published - October 06, 2019 08:50 pm IST

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