The Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) has strongly condemned the Indian Home Ministry’s notification declaring the DFP as an unlawful association.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the DFP spokesman advocate Arshad Iqbal in a statement issued in Srinagar, while terming Kashmir as an internationally recognized disputed territory, said that as per the international covenants, the Indian Home Ministry has no locus standi, whatsoever, to ban an organization or declare it as unlawful merely for seeking a peaceful settlement of the dispute in line with the United Nations resolutions.
The spokesman, referring to dozens of resolutions the UN had adopted from time to time on Kashmir, said that it was quite unfortunate that India was trying to weave cobwebs of confusion around the Kashmir case by attributing baseless things like secessionists and separatists to Kashmiris.
He said that it was very unreasonable that notification of the Indian Home Ministry refers to the secessionist activities of the DFP and its members but fails to recognize the bitter reality that Kashmir has never been a part of India. “Since Kashmir has never been a part of the Indian dominion, then talking about secession aimlessly is nothing but madness”, he said.
“The DFP is purely a political organization that has been striving for a peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute in line with the UN resolutions”, the spokesman said, adding the incarcerated party Chairman Shabbir Ahmed Shah’s life-long struggle and his indomitable role to seek an amicable solution to the lingering dispute has been acknowledged by international human rights organizations.—KMS
