Jammu and Kashmir National Conference President Farooq Abdullah says India should not push through with Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and rethink the consequences of implementing it.
Talking to media in Srinagar, Farooq Abdullah said India should rethink about Uniform Civil Code as people of different races and religions live in India and Muslims have their own shariah law.
His remarks come after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a strong pitch for UCC and wondered how a country can function with dual laws that gov-ern personal matters.
Senior leader of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Professor Abdul Ghani Butt, has said that the Kashmir dispute is the main cause of tension between Pakistan and India.
In a statement issued in Srinagar, he stressed that the two countries should resolve it through a peaceful dialogue process.
Abdul Ghani Butt said everything can be achieved peacefully through the dialogue process. He maintained that the leaderships of Pakistan and India have to act wisely for a better future of the people of South Asia in particular and for the whole world in general.
He said the leaderships of Pakistan and India should sit together and find an amicable solution to the lingering Kashmir dispute.
Kashmiri Representative Shameem Shawl has said people of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) have been facing systematic grave human rights violations and abuses by India since decades.
In her statement read in the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, she said denial of basic human rights is only revenge to de-mand the right to self-determination.
She said all laws are violated by Indian authori-ties in the region and it is the moral obligation of all to stand with the victims of state oppression and brutality.
She urged the Council to appoint a Commission of Inquiry on the ongoing and past human right violations in Kashmir to hold violators responsible for their worst wrong doings.—KMS
