Illegally detained All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) leader Nayeem Ahmed Khan has urged the United Nations General Secretary António Guterres to take notice of human rights violations by Indian troops in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Nayeem Ahmed Khan in his message from New Delhi’s Tihar jail has said that the Indian invasion of Kashmir in 1947 was the most dreadful incident of India’s colonial history that threw the region into throes of instability and perpetual violence.
He said India’s continuous denial to grant right to self-determination to the people of Kashmir has brought death and destruction in the region. “Kashmiris are being brutally victimized by over one million Indian military and paramilitary personnel deployed in the length and breadth of Kashmir,” he added.
While paying tributes to the Bijbehara and other martyrs, he maintained that the Kashmiris would continue their freedom struggle till the settlement of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the United Nations resolutions and will of the Kashmiri people.
The jailed APHC leader said India’s attempt to legalize its illegality rests on a bogus instrument of accession by a Maharaja, which he had no authority to sign in any event. British historian Alastair Lamb in his book had convincingly demonstrated that the “Instrument of accession” was bogus, he added.
He said, on one hand, India had backtracked from its commitments regarding the resolution of Kashmir dispute, while on the other, its refusal to accept international mediation seems to shut the door for any kind of international dialogue on Kashmir.
The jailed leader urged the Indian government to give up its intransigence on the Kashmir dispute, adding dialogue is the only way forward to seek a just and lasting settlement of the lingering dispute.—KMS
