Senior leader of All Parties Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has demanded immediate release of all illegally detained Kashmiris languishing in different jails of India and the occupied territory.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who was allowed to lead Juma prayers at Jamia Masjid in Srinagar after five years, addressing a large number of people also appealed to all sects and organisations -religious, social or political to rise above personal and sectarian interests and ensure unity and brotherhood among the people of Jammu and Kashmir to preserve and protect its collective identity.
Mirwaiz said, “The best way to ensure collectivism is following basic human, moral and religious principles and values, otherwise fighting and one upmanship will make us perish.”
He urged the authorities to listen to the voice of people’s collective conscience and unconditionally release thousands of Kashmiri political prisoners who are in jails in occupied Jammu and Kashmir and all over India as a gesture of goodwill in the holy month of Ramadan.
Mirwaiz said, “The month of Ramadan gives us the opportunity to reassess ourselves and take stock of what we are doing and how we are living and is it in accordance with the teachings of Quran and sunnah. It gives us another chance to realign our faith with the principles of Islam and follow them accordingly so that we earn the Raza of Allah in this world and jannah in the hereafter.”—KMS
