APHC-AJK chapter senior leader, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani denouncing the Indian PM Narendra Modi’s recent visit to IIOJK termed it as rubbing salt into the wounds of the oppressed Kashmiris.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Muhammad Farooq Rahmani in a statement issued in Islamabad said that after illegally abrogating the special status of IIOJK in 2019, Modi was hoodwinking the world into believing that peace and development had started during his tenure in the territory. The reality, he said, was that IIOJK had been turned into a worst prison for its residents. He said India was making false claims of economic development in Kashmir by citing the construction of roads and railway lines, adding that the fact of the matter was that, after destroying Kashmir’s agriculture, horticulture and economy, this all was being done for military purposes.
He said that the Modi’s Hindutva regime was terminating Kashmiri Muslim employees from govt services, making many families to suffer from poverty. He said that India was making efforts to turn the Muslim majority status of IIOJK into a minority by providing domicile certificates to non-locals. He said that lacs of kanals of Kashmir’s land were in the possession of the Indian army whose huge presence had made lives of the Kashmiri people a hell.
He said that the Kashmiris’ properties were being snatched and handed over to the Indian business tycoons, adding privately owned madrassas and schools were being sealed and religious scholars including imams of mosques were being forced to toe the govt line.
Farooq Rahmani lamented that all basic and constitutional rights of the Kashmiris had been taken away and thousands of youth and political leaders were in jails and yet Modi was trying to mislead the world by making false claims of dawning of peace, development and prosperity in IIOJK.—KMS
