APHC urges India to give up intransigence on Kashmir

Srinagar, February 20, 2015 (PPI-OT): In occupied Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyet Conference has urged India to shun its traditional approach of stubbornness and start a meaningful dialogue with Pakistan and the genuine Kashmiri representatives to settle the Kashmir dispute for ensuring permanent peace, prosperity and stability in South Asia.

The APHC in a statement issued in Srinagar said that India itself had taken the Kashmir dispute to the United Nations whereby several resolutions were passed in the UN Security Council calling for grant of right to self-determination to the people of Jammu and Kashmir through an impartial plebiscite. It, however, said that it was highly unfortunate that despite the passage of over six decades, the UN had failed to implement its resolutions on Kashmir.

The veteran Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, in a statement issued in Srinagar said that occupied Kashmir had virtually been converted into a police state being governed and ruled by Indian army, police and secret agencies. He strongly condemned the continued illegal detention of Ayaz Akbar, the spokesman of his forum.

APHC leaders, Mukhtar Ahmed Waza and Javaid Ahmed Mir, addressing a gathering at Qoimoh in Islamabad said that the unparalleled sacrifices offered by the Kashmiri people for securing their right to self-determination would not be allowed to go waste.

They deplored that Indian troops involved in Kunanposhpora mass rape twenty-four years ago were not brought to justice. Around 100 women of all ages from thirteen to eighty were raped by the troops on the intervening night of 23rd February in 1991 in Kunanposhpora area of Kupwara district.

Hurriyet leader, Shabbir Ahmed Dar, addressing a gathering at Shalimar Colony in Sopore said that India and Israel were using brutal tactics to suppress the freedom movements of Kashmiris and Palestinians. Meanwhile, people staged anti-India demonstrations in Srinagar, Islamabad and other areas of the occupied territory.

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