APHC-AJK expresses concern over rise in Indian state terrorism in IIOJK
Islamabad: All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir (APHC-AJK) chapter has expressed its serious concern over the rise in Indian state terrorism in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, APHC-AJK General Secretary Sheikh Abdul Mateen in a statement issued in Islamabad strongly condemned the ongoing killings, arrests, desecration of women and destruction of houses and other properties by Indian troops in the occupied territory.
He said the people of Kashmir are rendering unprecedented sacrifices for their birthright to self-determination and they will continue their struggle till taking it to its logical conclusion. He also denounced the nefarious Indian intentions of converting the Muslim majority of the occupied territory into a minority.
Sheikh Abdul Mateen paid tribute to the Kashmiri martyrs and praised the determination and courage of illegally detained Hurriyat leaders, activists and youth languishing in different jails of India and the occupied territory.
He appealed to the United Nations to play its role in immediate release of All Parties Hurriyat Conference Chairman Masarat Alam Butt, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Aasiya Andrabi, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Molvi Bashir Ahmad, Bilal Siddiqui, Pir Saifullah, Raja Merajuddin Kalwal, Ayaz Muhammad Akbar, Shahid-ul-Islam, Farooq Ahmad Dar, Nahida Nasreen, Fahmida Sufi, Mushtaq-ul-Islam and other Hurriyat leaders and activists.
Meanwhile, other APHC-AJK chapter leaders, including Imtiyaz Wani, Sheikh Muhammad Yaqoob, Altaf Ahmed Butt, Chaudhry Shaheen Iqbal, Mushtaq Ahmed Butt, Zahid Safi, Syed Aijaz Rehman, Zahid Ashraf, Advocate Parvaiz Ahmed and Raja Shaheen in their separate statements in Islamabad said killing, harassment and other tactics by the Indian authorities could not suppress the Kashmiris’ indigenous freedom movement. They added that the people of Kashmir would continue their struggle till complete success.
