SRINAGAR, Aug 8: Hundreds of people staged a sit-in on Wednesday demanding information about thousands of missing persons in occupied Kashmir, as a top Kashmiri leader called for UN intervention.

“We seek the attention and intervention of the United Nations against enforced disappearances in Kashmir,” said Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who led the sit-in at a park here.

“The government is not taking the issue seriously,” Farooq, who heads a moderate separatist alliance, told protesters, most of them relatives of the disappeared.

The protesters sat silently under a big tent.—AFP