Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, Convener of All Parties Hurriyat Conference AJK chapter, has strongly condemned the arrest of APHC vice Chairman Ghulam Ahmed Gulzar by Indian forces in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Muhammad Farooq Rehmani in a statement issued in Islamabad, today, warned that all such revengeful arrests and imprisonments would further aggravate the already tense situation in occupied Kashmir. He deplored that crackdown on the defenders of free speech, free press and assembly had encouraged enemies of human rights and humanity.
Muhammad Farooq Rehmani denounced the latest spate of killings in fake encounters saying that the occupant Delhi regime was hell-bent upon ethnic cleansing of all Kashmiris in the disputed region.
Further, he demanded release of all illegally detained APHC leaders and supporters including Ghulam Ahmed Gulzar and urged the UN to force India to stop killings of youth and resolve the longstanding Kashmir dispute in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the Security Council.
APHC leader Mukhtar Ahmad Waza in a statement in Srinagar also called for the release of youth and all political prisoners from jails and house detentions. He stressed the need to resolve the Kashmir dispute to prevent the region from plunging into a catastrophe.—KMS
