Veteran rights activist and Chairman Kashmir Institute of International Relations (KIIR), Altaf Hussain Wani has vehemently condemned the Indian occupation authorities’ act of filing a concocted case under notorious UAPA against London and Saudi Arabia based Kashmiri rights activists Muzamil Ayub Thakur and Dr. Asif Dar.
Talking to media here on Monday, the KIIR chief while terming the occupation authorities’ act as unjustified and uncalled for said that every Kashmiri whether he/she lives in Kashmir or in any other part of the world has right to speak and support the ongoing struggle for right to self-determination and expose India’s brutal suppression in the troubled region. Being strong proponents of Kashmiris’ right to self-determination, he said, Thaukur and Dar have been championing the cause of Kashmir peacefully at international level and no power whatsoever can stop them from raising voice for the voiceless victims of Kashmir.
“The fact remains that India wants to choke every dissenting voice within and outside the valley”, he said adding that after ruthless suppression in the valley India’s racist regime was now hellbent on silencing every Kashmiri who dares to call the spade a spade and speaks against India’s brutal suppression and its settler colonialism policies in Kashmir.
He said filing of FIRs against the Kashmiri civil society activists was part of the apartheid regime’s nefarious game plan to completely silent Kashmir. He, however, maintained that implicating Kashmiri civil society activists in false.
