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Islamabad, May 29, 2023 (PPI-OT): The All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir (APHC-AJK) chapter has strongly condemned the fascist Modi government for conspiring to kill Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik through the judiciary. A meeting was held in Islamabad under the chairmanship of APHC-AJK Convener Mahmood Ahmed Saghar in Islamabad, in which it was said that India’s biased courts are working under the influence of Hindutva elements and Kashmiris are being punished for demanding their birth right to self-determination.
It was said in the meeting that the Indian kangaroo courts had always disappointed the Kashmiris. The demand by India’s infamous National Investigation Agency (NIA) to give death sentence to Yasin Malik is a deep conspiracy for the judicial killing of another popular Kashmiri leader. The meeting expressed regret that the unholy nexus of the Indian government and the anti-Muslim judiciary had taken the lives of many innocent Kashmiris and the judicial killing of prominent Kashmiri martyrs Muhammad Maqbool Butt and Muhammad Afzal Guru were fresh examples of the injustice done to Kashmiris.
The meeting appealed to the United Nations and other human rights organizations to come forward and save Kashmiris from Hindutva terrorism and play role in release of JKLF Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik, APHC Chairman Masarat Alam Butt, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Nayeem Khan, Aasiya Andrabi and other Hurriyat leaders and activists. While, paying homage to 17-year-old Aasiya Jan and her sister-in-law Neelofar Jan in the meeting, the tragedy of rape and double murder in Shopian was termed as a serious attack on the collective conscience of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
It was said in the meeting that the Shopian tragedy had shaken the conscience of the people of Kashmir Valley and it could not be ignored under any circumstances. Muhammad Farooq Rahmani, Mir Tahir Masood, Sheikh Abdul Mateen, Imtiaz Wani, Syed Ejaz Rahmani, Javed Iqbal Butt, Hasan Al Bana, Raja Khadim Hussain, Salim Haroon, Muhammad Shafi Dar, Zahid Ashraf, Nazir Karnai, and others participated in the meeting.
Meanwhile, Pasban-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir organized a protest demonstration In front of Central Press Club, Muzaffarabad, against the seeking of death sentence for JKLF Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik by India’s infamous National Investigation Agency. The protesters, who tied themselves in chains and waved black flags, raised high-pitched slogans against the Indian government. They were chanting slogans like “Release Yasin Malik”, “Release Hurriyat leaders” and “Release Kashmiri prisoners.”
Pasban-e-Hurriyat Chairman Uzair Ahmad Ghazali addressing on the occasion said Bharatiya Janata Party is using the so-called Indian judiciary and NIA as weapons against the Kashmiri freedom-loving leadership. The demand for Muhammad Yasin Malik’s death sentence is a proof of the malice and hostility of the Indian rulers towards the Kashmiri people, he added. He appealed to the United Nations and other international rights organizations to take notice of judicial terrorism against Yasin Malik.
Addressing the protesters, Usman Ali Hashim said India’s biased judiciary is being used by Narendra Modi as the worst war weapon against Kashmiri prisoners. After Muhammad Afzal Gurur, now Yasin Malik is being targeted for revenge. Mushtaq-ul-Islam said that Yasin Malik was being subjected to the worst revenge for fighting for freedom and people’s rights, adding India cannot weaken the resistance movement with such crude tactics.
Khalid Mehmood Zaidi and Hafiz Bilal Ahmad Farooqui in their speeches said the government of Pakistan should urgently raise the issue of Yasin Malik and other Kashmiri prisoners at international forums. Shazia Kayani Advocate, Muhammad Aslam Inqilabi, Uzair Alam, Muhammad Aimal Farzam, Mahfooz Ingilabi, Amir Abbasi, Riaz Awan and other speakers strongly condemned the Indian government’s reprisals against Kashmiri prisoners, including Yasin Malik, and appealed to the world to save the lives of the Kashmiri prisoners.
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