Day: April 6, 2014

Srinagar, April 06, 2014 (PPI-OT): In occupied Kashmir, several leaders of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front including the party Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik, were injured when Indian police subjected them to brute force near Palhallan in Pattan.

The JKLF spokesman in a statement issued in Srinagar said that Muhammad Yasin Malik and other party leaders were on their way to Baramulla to address a gathering in connection with the election boycott campaign when the police intercepted them near Palhallan.

He said that the police attacked the JKLF caravan with canes and sticks injuring Yasin Malik and more than a dozen persons. He said that the police later arrested Yasin Malik, Mushtaq Ajmal, Shameem Hussein, Shahid Makaya, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Muhammad Habibullah and Yasir Maqbool and shifted them to some unknown place.

“Several JKLF activists and leaders have been injured in police action and many of them have been rushed to the hospital. Besides Malik, the injured included Imtiyaz Ahmed, Showkat Ahmed Dar, Ashfaq Hussain, Salman Ahmed, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Shahid Makaya, Arshid Ahmed, Owais Ahmed Khan, Aadil Ahmed and Muhammad Haroon,” the spokesman said, adding that the police also damaged several vehicles that were part of the caravan.

The spokesman said that as the news of assault on JKLF leaders and their arrest reached Baramulla, people in large numbers came out on streets and staged demonstrations against the police action. He said that raising high-pitched anti-India and pro-liberation slogans, the people marched from Tawheed Ganj to Bus Stand.

The spokesman said that the JKLF leaders, Showkat Ahmad Bakhshi, Sheikh Abdul Rasheed, Mir Siraj-ud-Din Dawood, Professor Javed and Bashir Ahmad Kashmiri addressing the protesters on the occasion condemned the assault on party leaders and their arrest. They urged the people to stay away from farcical elections as these polls were just a tool to oppress the people of Kashmir.

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Srinagar, April 06, 2014 (PPI-OT): In occupied Kashmir, a large number of people from the areas surrounding Tosa Maidan in Badgam staged a demonstration at Press Enclave in Srinagar to press their demand for non-extension of lease of the meadow to Indian Army.

Indian Army has been using Tosa Maidan as a firing range since 1964 after acquiring it on 50-year lease, which is expiring on April 18. Residents of the areas around Tosa Maidan have been demanding of the puppet administration not to extend the lease and convert it into a tourist destination.

The protesters while talking to mediamen said that many people and cattle had lost their lives and scores others had got injured due to the explosion caused by the unexploded shells. They said that hundreds of houses had developed cracks.

“People have become deaf. Not only has grazing in the upper reaches of Tosa Maidan firing range been hit, but people are not even able to attend their fields due to the continuous firing by the army during the day,” they said. The protesters said that they would launch mass agitation if the lease period was extended by the puppet administration.

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Srinagar, April 06, 2014 (PPI-OT): In occupied Kashmir, Indian police arrested Hurriyet leaders, Nayeem Ahmed Khan and Mushtaq-ul-Islam, in Pulwama today, to prevent them from addressing public gatherings.

The police arrested Nayeem Ahmed Khan and Mushtaq-ul-Islam from Littar area of Pulwama district when they were going to Aarihal area of the district to address a public gathering. They were lodged in a local police station. The Hurriyet leaders were also scheduled to address public meetings at some other places as well.

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Srinagar, April 06, 2014 (PPI-OT): In occupied Kashmir, the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Political Movement (DPM) has appealed to the Kashmiri people to totally boycott the forthcoming so-called elections in the territory. The DPM General Secretary, Muhammad Shafi Reshi, addressing a meeting of party activists in Ganderbal said that India had exploited the participation of people in these sham polls in the international forum as a referendum in its favour.

Muhammad Shafi Reshi said that Kashmir was not a border dispute between Pakistan and India but was an issue pertaining to the future of millions of Kashmiris. He deplored that instead of resolving the dispute, India was killing innocent Kashmiris to prolong its illegal hold on Jammu and Kashmir.

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Srinagar, April 06, 2014 (PPI-OT): The veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, has said that the disclosure of a news portal, Cobrapost, on Babri Masjid show that the both Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party have no difference in their policies towards the Muslims and are acting upon the plan of making India a Hindu national state.

Syed Ali Gilani, who is in New Delhi for medical treatment, in a statement issued in Srinagar castigated the Shahi Imam of Delhi’s Jamia Masjid for extending support to Congress. “Be it the Shahi Imam, Omar Abdullah or Saifuddin Soz, these people are ‘low-rung soldier’ of Sonia Gandhi and have been used to cover the anti-Muslim face of Congress party,” the veteran leader said.

“On the one hand Shahi Imam has mortgaged his faith with the Congress for petty interests and on the other hand Omar Abdullah is acting as a sycophant for the Congress only to come again into the power in Kashmir,” Syed Ali Gilani said. He maintained that National Conference had always been in search of power and chair and for obtaining this, its leaders had not only supported Congress but at times they had even shaken their hands with BJP.

It is to mention here that Cobrapost has revealed that the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992 was elaborately planned by various extremist wings of the Sangh Parivar. It said that top BJP leaders like L K Advani and the then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Kalyan Singh, as well as the Congress Prime Minister, P V Narasimha Rao, were aware of the planned destruction of the historic mosque.

Meanwhile, the veteran leader strongly denounced the fresh arrest spree unleashed by Indian police and troops ahead of the so-called sham polls in the occupied territory. He said that in the past few days, the police had detained around a dozen Hurriyet activists during crackdown operations in Baramulla, Islamabad and other areas.

He said that the police personnel were conducting house raids to arrest more people while Hurriyet leaders including Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai and Muhammad Ashraf Laiya had been placed under house arrest.

Syed Ali Gilani said that such actions vindicated their stand that holding of farcical elections was nothing more than a military operation to prolong India’s illegal occupation on Jammu and Kashmir. He appealed to the people to totally boycott the so-called polls, as India exploited their participation in the elections in its favour at the international level.

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Srinagar, April 06, 2014 (PPI-OT): In occupied Kashmir, senior leader of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Professor Abdul Ghani Butt, has said that sham polls in the territory are not a solution to the Kashmir dispute and should only be seen as a process for running administrative affairs.

Professor Abdul Ghani Butt in an interview in Srinagar said that there would be no solution to the dispute till the aspirations of common Kashmiris were addressed. The APHC leader said that pro-India politicians had always fooled the people in the name of road, water and electricity. He said that whether it was National Conference or Peoples Democratic Party or any other pro-India political party, they had always sucked the blood of Kashmiri people for their benefits.

Professor Butt said that the Hurriyet leaders’ meeting with Pakistani High Commissioner to India, Abdul Basit, was fruitful and encouraging. “I was very impressed by the speech of Pakistani High Commissioner. He assured Islamabad will take all measures with the new government at New Delhi after parliamentary polls to safeguard the interest of Kashmiri people,” he added.

Maintaining that dialogue was the only way to settle the conflict over Kashmir, Professor Butt said that the APHC was ready to hold talks with any political party in India that was sincere to resolve the dispute.

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Srinagar, April 06, 2014 (PPI-OT): In occupied Kashmir, senior leader of the All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, has said that Kashmiri people reject holding of farcical elections in the territory under the Indian constitution.

Shabbir Ahmed Shah addressing public gatherings in differentIMG_1576 areas of Pulwama and Shopian, today, appealed to the Kashmiris to totally boycott the forthcoming sham polls to convey to the world that they wanted freedom from Indian subjugation.

APHC leaders including Muhammad Yousuf Naqash and Muhammad Iqbal Mir also addressed the gatherings. Their addresses were punctuated by forceful anti-India and pro-liberation slogans. Earlier, Indian police arrested Hurriyet leaders, Nayeem Ahmed Khan and Mushtaq-ul-Islam, in Littar area of Pulwama to prevent them from joining Shabbir Shah and other leaders.

Senior APHC leader, Professor Abdul Ghani Butt, in an interview in Srinagar said that the so-called elections in the territory were not a solution to the Kashmir dispute and they should only be seen as a process for running administrative affairs. He maintained that there would be no solution to the dispute till the aspirations of common Kashmiris were addressed.

The veteran Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, in a statement issued in Srinagar expressed serious concern over the fresh arrest spree unleashed by the police in Baramulla, Islamabad and other areas of the territory. He said that scores of people had been arrested in the past few days during crackdown operations and house raids.

Meanwhile, Indian police took into custody Hurriyet leader, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, along with his associates in Watlab area of Sopore when he was on his way to Bandipora to address a public meeting in connection with the election boycott campaign.

On the other hand, people foiled the attempt of Indian police to arrest a Hurriyet activist in Hajin area of Bandipora district by staging a forceful demonstration, forcing the policemen to run away from the spot.

An Indian trooper committed suicide by hanging himself inside an army camp in Machil area of Kupwara district. This incident raised the number of such deaths amongst Indian troops and police personnel to 311 since January 2007.

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