Protest erupts in Jammu and Kashmir over two missing youths

Srinagar, July 16 (ANI): People in Srinagar on Thursday took to streets protesting over two Kashmiri youths, who have been missing since July 7 from New Delhi.

According to locals, two Kashmiri students Zahoor Ahmad and Showkat Ahmad Malik have been missing from New Delhi since July 7 and July 9 respectively.

They further alleged that Kashmiri youths are often held as suspects outside the state, and feared if both of them were in a similar crisis.

"We want to request our CM (Jammu and Kashmir Chief Omar Abdullah), Manmohan Singh, Azad (Ghulam Nabi Azad, a cabinet minister of Jammu and Kashmir) and even Congress president Sonia Gandhi to look into the matter and find out where our youth is. They should also find out that who is behind his disappearance," said Ghulam Rasool Gani, a relative of missing youth Mir.

Twenty-five year-old Zahoor Ahmad Mir, a M Phil student, was working in a private mobile phone company in New Delhi. (ANI)