The separatist camp in Kashmir have called off their day-long bandh on 24 February as the festival of Shivratri falls on the day.
Hurriyat leaders, including Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Omer Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik, issued a statement calling off the protest keeping the Kashmiri Pandit community in mind.
“We have exemplary tradition of mutual brotherhood and since ages we are living in harmony... While issuing resistance programme we did not notice the commencing festival and later members of Pundit community invited our attention towards it and after consultations we called off the proposed strike.”
Ever since the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani on 8 July last year, the leaders issued a weekly protest calendar, but now the strike was only carried out on Fridays.
(With inputs from Outlook)
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