Muzaffarabad, December 17, 2012 (PPI-OT): The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that Kashmir is not just a dispute between Pakistan and India, and Kashmiris being a fundamental party to it should be included in the peace process.
The APHC Chairman talking to reporters in Muzaffarabad before leaving back to Islamabad emphasised that no solution without the involvement of the Kashmiri people would be acceptable to them as they were the masters of their destiny.
The Mirwaiz declared that no barbed fencing could captivate the indomitable will of the freedom among the Kashmiris. He made it clear that the Kashmiris’ liberation struggle was their own and no power on earth could blunt it.
And in Srinagar, senior APHC leader, Shabbir Ahmad Shah in a statement emphatically stated that the Kashmiris would never make any compromise on their right to self-determination. He challenged India and pro-India parties to hold plebiscite in Kashmir and see what the people decide about their future.
The forum patronized by the veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, in a statement termed the ban on screening of a documentary at the campus of Kashmir University about Indian state terrorism as unjustified and against the freedom of expression.
Hurriyet leader, Firdous Ahmed Shah in a statement issued in Srinagar said that Kashmir was an internationally-recognised dispute and peace in South Asia would remain elusive till its settlement in line with the Kashmiris’ aspirations.
The illegally detained Hurriyet leader, Masarrat Aalam Butt in a statement issued from Kathua jail in Jammu said that the Kashmiris would accept nothing less than freedom from Indian bondage.
The Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Khawateen Markaz held a prayer meeting in Srinagar to commemorate the martyrdom anniversaries of prominent liberation leaders, Sham-ul-Haq and Sufi Muhammad Akbar. The meeting was presided over by Khawateen Markaz Chairperson, Yasmeen Raja.
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