The All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC) has deplored that the huge presence of brutal Indian troops has put the Kashmiris’ lives under constant state of siege for the last over seven decades.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the APHC spokesman Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas, in a statement issued in Srinagar, said that over one million Indian troops remain deployed across length and breadth of the occupied territory who have turned it into a living hell for its residents through their barbaric acts.
He said the Kashmiris are witnessing extrajudicial killings, massacres, violent cordon and search operations, nocturnal raids, arrests and torture on daily basis. He said that the Kashmiris have been subjected to worst kind of human rights violations for demanding freedom from Indian illegal occupation.
Besides, the spokesman said, India has snatched all natural resources and other basic freedoms of the Kashmiri people, who have been demanding their political rights including their birthright, the right to self-determination. Kashmiri people are determined to continue their fight against Indian illegal occupation against all odds
He said that the Indian forces’ personnel enjoying unbridled powers under draconian laws are committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the occupied territory with impunity. “Kashmiri people are determined to continue their fight against Indian illegal occupation against all odds”, he added.
He said that India was constantly trying to mislead the world about the ground situation in occupied Jammu and Kashmir. He said that the international community is legally and morally bound to stop unprecedented Indian repression in IIOJK and force New Delhi to respect the sentiments of the Kashmiri people and give them their right to self-determination.
The spokesman pointed out that unless the Kashmir dispute was resolved in accordance with the relevant UN resolutions, peace and stability could not be established in the region and Pakistan-India relations could not be improved on sustainable basis.
Meanwhile, Jammu Kashmir Student Youth Forum pasted posters in different areas of Kashmir, saying that the land of Sufis and Saints cannot be taken over by followers of Hindutva philosophy and that the Kashmiri people are determined to defend the territory’s Islamic character.
APHC-AJK chapter has strongly condemned the Hindutva Bharatiya Janata Party-led Indian government for using its dreaded agencies to impose colonial orders including attaching properties of Hurriyet leaders, activists, banning pro-freedom political parties and terrorizing common people who raise their voice for their inalienable right to self-determination.
The APHC-AJK leaders including Altaf Ahmad Butt, Shaikh Muhammad Yaqoob, Zahid Safi, Syed Aijaz Rehmani, Javeed Jahangir Butt, Syed Mushtaq Gilani, Zahid Ashraf, Mushtaq Ahmed Butt, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Shah, Muhammad Shafi Dar and Syed Gulshan Ahmad in their separate statements said that the Modi regme was using colonial-era tactics to break the will of the Hurriyat leaders and innocent Kashmiris.
They maintained that the Hindutva government of India was employing such brutal tactics to intimidate Kashmiris into submission and weaken their economy.
The APHC-AJK leaders said that banning political organizations including Jamaat-e-Islami, Muslim Conference, Democratic Freedom Party, Muslim League, JKLF, Dukhtaran-e-Millat and other parties on false and fabricated charges was a disgrace to democracy.—KMS
