Srinagar
In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Hurriyat forum led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that the people of Jammu and Kashmir had for the past 74 years been incessantly demanding the resolution of the Kashmir conflict.
The forum in a statement said that commitments made to the people of J&K that their fundamental right —the right to decide their future would be honoured stands unfulfilled to this day.
“Instead, a policy of repression and intimidation in varying degrees has been pursued by India resulting in severe human rights abuses of the people of Kashmir, it added,” it said and called for dialogue between Pakistan, India and people of Jammu and Kashmir to find out a peaceful resolution of the issue.
It said that efforts were on to change the demographic composition of the territory to undermine its disputed nature. “All forms of peaceful protest or dissent by the people is curbed by force as the number of armed troops in the valley is highest across the world,” it added.—KMS
