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Srinagar, July 20, 2018 (PPI-OT): In occupied Kashmir, the Chairman of Hurriyat forum, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, has emphasized that no amount of repression, harassment and intimidation can deter the people of Kashmir from continuing their struggle for right to self-determination.
While addressing the Friday congregation at the historic Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, today, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said that India wanted to intimidate Hurriyat leadership by conducting military raids and through arrests. However, Mirwaiz added, India has failed in its designs. He underlined the fact that sooner or later, the Kashmir dispute would have to be addressed.
Meanwhile, the Joint Resistance Leadership in a statement issued in Srinagar said that the death of 70-year-old Hurriyat activist, Ghulam Hassan Malik alias Noor Khan, at Kot Bhalwal jail in Jammu had proved right the apprehensions of leadership that Kashmiri prisoners were ill treated in jails and not even provided with the basic medical aid which posed a great threat to their lives.
It appealed to the world human rights organizations to conduct a thorough visit of various jails of India and occupied Kashmir to take stock of the plight of the Kashmiri detainees. Hurriyat leaders, Shabbir Ahmed Dar, Muhammad Iqbal Mir, Muhammad Ahsan Untoo, Imtiyaz Ahmed Reshi, Ghulam Nabi War and Ghulam Nabi Waseem termed the death of Malik just another example of judicial killing.
The occupation authorities slapped black law Public Safety Act on illegally detained liberation leader, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, today, and shifted him from Srinagar’s Batamaloo police station to Kot Bhalwal Jail in Jammu. The Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Muhammad Yasin Malik in a statement termed the besieging of villages and towns in the name of crackdown especially during night hours, vandalizing and destroying of property, and thrashing of people by the Indian troops across the territory as naked terrorism.
The Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Peoples League, Mukhtar Ahmad Waza addressing a gathering in Devalgam area of Kokernag said that the Kashmir dispute posed a threat to world peace and the international community must take measures for its resolution.
Complete shutdown, marked by demonstrations, was observed in different areas of Kupwara district, today, against the killing of a missing minor boy, Omar Farooq Malik. In Ankara, the national media of Turkey, TRT World, has said that India is spreading Hindu nationalism in occupied Kashmir in the name of Amarnath Yatra and is subduing Kashmir with religious tourism.
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