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May 31st

India won’t be able to detach Kashmiris from struggle

Srinagar, May 31 (KMS): The chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, has reiterated the Kashmiris’ resolve to continue the ongoing peaceful liberation struggle without any compromise. 

The APHC Chairman was talking to media after the Executive Council meeting, which was held at Nageen in Srinagar, today. The Mirwaiz stressed the APHC leadership to consolidate their mass contact programmes to make ill plans against the freedom movement unsuccessful.

India can’t deprive Kashmiris of birthright: Naqash

Srinagar, May 31 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC) leader and Chief Patron of Islamic Political Party Jammu and Kashmir, Mohammad Yousuf Naqash has said that India cannot succeed in depriving Kashmiris of their birthright to self-determination.

Jammers, e-courting to set in place in IHK jails

Jammu, May 31 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, the prisons department is soon going to install high frequency jammers within the jail premises across the territory to keep check on use of mobile phones inside the jails.

India using rape, molestation as war weapon in IHK: JKPM

Jammu, May 31 (KMS): The Jammu and Kashmir Peoples’ Movement (JKPM), a constituent of the APHC, has said that the Indian army and its paramilitary forces over the past 23 years have been using rape and molestation in occupied Kashmir as weapon of war to subjugate the Kashmiris.

Dismissal of petition against Khoda unfortunate: Gilani

Srinagar, May 31 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, the veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani has termed as unfortunate the dismissal of writ petition filed against the police chief Kuldeep Khoda — a day after he was recommended to be appointed as Chief Vigilance Commissioner — for his involvement in Baderwah triple murder case.

India accepts 169 recommendations in their Univeral Periodic Review of Human Rights

Geneva, May 31 (KMS): This week KCEU continued its lobbying of the 2012 India Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights (UPR).  As previously noted the Government of India has come under repeated criticism for the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, immunity for armed forces and police who commit human rights abuses, failing to adequately train armed forces and the police about their human rights obligations, failing to ratify the Convention Against Torture, failing to ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Person from Disappearance, a lack of responses to human rights cases submitted by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), restricting the internet, failing to protect human rights defenders, failing to protect journalists, and failing to abolish the death penalty.  Of 169 recommendations many pertain to these issues, which are particularly relevant in Kashmir.

International probe into Shopian tragedy demanded

Srinagar, May 31 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, the Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Salvation Movement, Zafar Akbar Butt has demanded an impartial international investigation into the killing of Aasiya and Neelofar, who were abducted, molested and subsequently murdered by men in uniform in Shopian three years ago on May 29.

2 bodies recovered; 5 more kids died in GB Pant Hospital

Srinagar, May 31 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, bodies of a man and a woman were recovered from two different places.

Interlocutors’ report ignores aspirations of Azadi: Fai

Washington May 31(KMS): The Executive Director of Kashmiri American Council, Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai has said that the India-appointed interlocutors report on Kashmir is a mess, a diversion from the primary interests of the people and an outright diversionary tactic by the members of the group.

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