HATTIAN BALA (Kashmir Digital): Residents of Jhelum Valley rejected the proscribed Joint Awami Action Committee’s (JAAC) call for a wheel-jam and shutter-down strike on November 9, with markets and businesses remaining open and traffic continuing as usual.
According to our correspondent, normal activities continued across Hattian Bala district, including in Leepa Valley, despite the strike call.
Local residents said shutdowns and strikes mainly affect poor families, daily-wage workers and small businesses.
They said they did not want their livelihoods, children’s education and routine activities to suffer, adding that the people of Leepa wanted peace and development.
Talking to Kashmir Digital, a local resident also exposed false propaganda by the Action Committee regarding the use of heavy weapons by forces in the area.
He said that residents of the region were familiar with the destruction caused by cross-border firing and shelling, adding that claims about heavy weapons should be assessed against the experiences of people living in the area.
The resident condemned the attempts to defame the state through misleading claims and urged people not to spread unverified information.
In addition, markets and business centers across Mirpur are open after citizens rejected the JAAC’s strike call.
Shops from Quaid-e-Azam Chowk to Chowk Shaheed, Allama Iqbal Road, and other important commercial centers of the city are open as usual, and traffic is flowing across the city.
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