While welcoming Hurriyat leaders’ resolve to work together at the single platform of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, the APHC-AJK leader and acting Chairman of Jammu Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party Mehmood Ahmed Saghar has said that unity within the rank and file of the Hurriyat fold is imperative to take the ongoing struggle to its logical end.
According to Kashmir Media Service, in a statement issued in Islamabad on Tuesday, the DFP leader while stressing the need for a broad-based unity said that greater unanimity within the pro-freedom organisations has been a dream of incarcerated party chairman Shabbir Ahmed Shah.
Terming Shah as a staunch proponent of unity, he said it was heartening to see that the leadership across the spectrum had finally agreed to work under a single platform to advance the noble cause for which Kashmiris have rendered unprecedented sacrifices.
In the wake of Modi government’s multi-front onslaught against Kashmiris, Saghar said, it was need of the hour that all the pro-freedom parties must join their hands and lend their full support to the much-needed unity initiative taken by the Hurriyat leadership.
Reiterating his party’s commitment to strengthen the forum, he said that the DFP would continue to pursue the noble cause in line with the vision of the party chairman who believed in unity, togetherness and collectivism.
Terming broad-based unity as key to foil India’s expansionistic designs in the region, he said that the conspiracies being hatched against Kashmiris by the occupation regime could be thwarted by forging complete unity. Another APHC-AJK chapter leader Syed Yousaf Naseem talking to journalists in London denounced the visit by Narendra Modi, the murderer of the Kashmiri people, to the occupied territory.—INP
