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Srinagar, June 23, 2013 (PPI-OT): In occupied Kashmir, APHC leader, Zafar Akbar Butt has asked the Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, to fulfil the promises made by the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, to the Kashmiris of give them their inalienable right to self-determination. Zafar Akbar Butt in a statement in Srinagar said that the Kashmiri people would not protest on Manmohan’s visit to the territory if he fulfilled the commitments of Nehru.
He said that the Indian Prime Minister should observe the ground situation himself to see what the Indian forces had done with the innocent Kashmiris through fake encounters, custodial killings, tortures, arrests and use of anti-human weapons like paper guns and pellet guns.
He said that Indian agencies would never allow any Prime Minister to meet the people and hear their problems they were facing due to militarization and invoking of black laws like Armed Forces Special Powers Act and Public Safety Act in the territory.
The APHC leader demanded an end to human rights violations, release of political prisoners, punishment to the killers of innocent Kashmiris and grant of right to self-determination to the people of the Jammu and Kashmir.
Zafar Akbar Butt also condemned the ban imposed by the puppet administration on local people and students to visit Pahalgam and Sonamarg areas.
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