Srinagar
In occupied Kashmir, illegally detained Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Salvation Movement, Zafar Akbar Butt, was shifted to hospital after his health deteriorated at Chanapura police station in Srinagar.
The JKSM in a statement issued in Srinagar said that Zafar Akbar Butt’s nose started bleeding at the police station due to high blood pressure after which police shifted him to hospital where he was under treatment.
The statement said that Zafar Akbar Butt was also taken to the hospital two days ago due to deteriorating health condition in the police station but was shifted back to the police station after minor treatment.
Meanwhile, the JKSM President, Altaf Ahmad Butt, in a statement in Islamabad, expressed concern over the declining health of Zafar Akbar Butt. He said Kashmiri political detainees also face severe threats from the spread of the coronavirus, therefore, India should release them without any further delay.
He also condemned the Indian judiciary for implicating illegally detained Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik, in a fake case and said that India could not weaken the freedom sentiment of the resistance leaders through such cheap tactics.
Meanwhile, the Grand Mufti of occupied Kashmir, Mufti Nasir-ul-Islam, addressing a meeting of religious leaders held in Srinagar, today, to discuss the situation arising out of coronovirus spread, demanded release of all illegally detained Kashmiris, saying that the prisoners could be affected by the disease as most of the jails lacked basic facilities.
Hurriyat leader, Ghulam Muhammad Khan Sopori, in a statement in Srinagar said that due to the lockdown in different countries in the wake of coronovirus pandemic, the world community must have no difficulty in realizing the sufferings the people of occupied Kashmir had been going through during the continued military siege for the past over seven months.
The Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Employees Movement, Muhammad Shafi Lone, in a statement in Srinagar deplored that the Indian government and its agencies had implicated the illegally detained Muhammad Yasin Malik in a three decades old fake case.
The illegally detained Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Salvation Movement, Zafar Akbar Butt, was admitted at a police hospital in Srinagar after his health deteriorated at Chanapora police station in Srinagar. The JKSM President, Altaf Ahmed Butt, in a statement in Islamabad called for immediate release of Zafar Akbar Butt and other Kashmiri detainees.—KMS