Separatist groups call for J-K shutdown over killing of youths

Separatist groups, including both factions of Hurriyat Conference, today called for a shutdown in Jammu and Kashmir tomorrow to protest the killing of two youths in firing allegedly by security forces in Pulwama.
Condemning the killing of two civilians, including a girl, hardline Hurriyat Conference chairman Syed Ali Geelani called for a statewide shutdown tomorrow, a spokesman of the Hurriyat said.
Geelani termed the killings as "cold-blooded murder and the worst kind of state terrorism of India in Jammu and Kashmir", he said.
The moderate factionof Hurriyat led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq also called for a statewide shutdown, terming the killings as "inhumane and immoral".

Mirwaiz appealed to people to observe a complete strike against the killings.
JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik also called for a strike against the "brutal killings" and condemned the "silence" of international community, civil society and human rights organizations on the "unprovoked" killing of innocent people.

Meanwhile, Mirwaiz has been put under house arrest, his Media Advisor Shahid-ul-Islam told PTI.
A large contingent of police reached his residence in Nigeen here and placed him under house arrest, Islam said.
Danish and Shahista were killed and three others injured allegedly in firing by security forces on protesters today after an encounter in Pulwama district of south Kashmir.