Srinagar
In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference has said that Indian forces are carrying out genocide of the Kashmiris under the guise of siege and search operations.
APHC General Secretary Moulvi Bashir Ahmad in a statement issued in Srinagar on the occasion of World Peace Day, today, said the killing of three labourers by Indian troops in a fake encounter in Shopian on July 18 was the latest example of how Indian troops were involved in killing innocent youth after dubbing them as foreign militants.
The APHC General Secretary said that as a result of pressure from human rights organizations, Indian Army had to confess that the martyred youth were labourers and were killed by the troops. He maintained that Indian occupational forces in violation of international law were killing innocent youth in fake encounters to suppress the Kashmiris’ ongoing struggle for right to self-determination.
Moulvi Bashir Ahmad said Indian troops have made the lives of Kashmiri people a hell through frequent sieges, search operations and arrests in the territory. He said that India had destroyed the economy, education, employment, tourism and daily life order in Kashmir by keeping the territory under military siege for more than a year now. He warned that India was endangering the peace in the region by resorting to the nefarious tactics to change the demography in Jammu and Kashmir and creating an atmosphere of war with the neighboring countries.
The APHC-AJK at a meeting chaired by its Convener, Mustafa Muhammad Hussain, in Islamabad discussed prevailing situation of the occupied territory.
On the occasion, Hurriyat leaders said that India was hatching conspiracies to turn the Muslim majority into a minority in IIOJK but the Kashmiri people would never allow India’s nefarious designs to succeed.
They said that India was continuing genocide of Kashmiris to change the geographic composition of IIOJK. They said that the Kashmiris were making sacrifices to achieve an important goal and at present Indian atrocities against them were being condemned by the entire world.
APHC-AJK leaders said that due to the sacrifices of Kashmiris, the Kashmir dispute had become a focus of attention at the global level. They deplored that India was pursuing a cruel policy of suppressing the voice of Kashmiris through military might.
They urged international human rights organizations and the UN to take note of the illegal steps taken by India to change the demography of IIOJK and play role in the immediate release of all illegally detained Kashmiris.
Hurriyat leaders said that India had stepped up the carnage in IIOJK even during the holy month of Muharram and the coronavirus epidemic. They strongly condemned the brutal use of force by the Indian Army on Muharram processions and the firing of pellet guns on mourners.
At the end of the meeting, special prayers were offered for the Kashmiris martyrs.
The meeting was attended by Hurriyat leaders, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, Abdul Majeed Mir, Raja Khadim Hussain, Abdul Majeed Malik, Javed Ahmed Butt, Adeel Mushtaq Wani, Sheikh Abdul Mateen, Nisar Mirza, Ishtiyaq Hameed, Nazir Ahmed Karnai, Sheikh Muhammad Yaqoob, Imtiaz Wani, Advocate Parvez Ahmed Shah, Haji Sultan Butt and Shamim Shawl.
Meanwhile,The OIC group discussed the worsening human rights situation in Illegally Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), according to a press release issued by Pakistani Mission to the UN.
Reaffirming its stand on the Kashmir dispute, the Contact Group also urged the UN chief to press India to rescind the unilateral and illegal measures taken on and after 5 August 2019 and to implement the Security Council resolutions calling for a plebiscite to enable the Kashmiri people to exercise their right to self-determination.
Conveying a special message of the Foreign Minister Qureshi to the meeting, Ambassador Munir Akram stated that the RSS-BJP regime in India was implementing what its rulers had themselves called a ‘Final Solution’.
The regime was engaged in systematically engineering a demographic change in IIOJK through new domicile rules, he said.
