Islamabad
The Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) has expressed serious concern over the deteriorating health of illegally detained veteran legal exert and President of High Court Bar Association of occupied Kashmir, Mian Abdul Qayoom, who suffered a heart attack in a jail in the Indian state of Agra.
The DFP Vice President, Mehmood Ahmed Saghar, chairing a party meeting in Islamabad took strong notice of the falling health of Mian Abdul Qayoom and other Hurriyat leaders being kept in miserable conditions in jails and detention centers in occupied Kashmir and India.
Mehmood Ahmed Saghar said that the ailing lawyer was being subjected to political vendetta for his significant role in the freedom movement. He condemned India’s colonial approach to muzzle the voice of dissent in occupied Kashmir and said that the oppressive tactics by New Delhi would not deter the Kashmiris from pursuing their collective cause of freedom from Indian occupation.
He urged the Amnesty International and other world human rights organizations to put pressure on India to release Mian Qayyum and other illegally detained Hurriyat leaders and activists.
The High Court Bar Association (HCBA) of occupied Kashmir has said that the health condition of the ailing Bar President, Mian Abdul Qayoom is not good.
The HCBA in a statement issued in Srinagar, today, said that family members of Mian Abdul Qayoom who met him at Central Jail, Agra, told the Bar that three ECGs and one Echocardiography Cardio-graphy were conducted of Mian Qayoom at a hospital in Agra and all tests indicated serious problems including artery blockage of 60 percent which was near fatal at this age.
It said according to family members Mian Qayoom requires angiography and possibly open heart surgery at the earliest. He was in fact scheduled to have an open heart surgery last year just before August 5, last year, however, he was arrested, it said.
“His pulse rate dropped yesterday to 44 rpm which is extremely risky and he is still experiencing spasm like pain in his chest. He was barely able to talk due to constant shortness of breath,” the HCBA said quoting family members.—APP
