APHC leaders strongly criticize Indian PM Modi’s upcoming visit to IIOJK
Srinagar: All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) leaders have strongly criticized Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming visit to occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting Jammu on February 20. During his daylong visit, he is scheduled to address a public rally at Maulana Azad Stadium in the heart of Jammu city. Modi will also inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of multiple projects virtually, interact with the people via video conferencing and deliver job letters to youth.
APHC leader Mohammad Yousaf Naqash, in a statement issued in Srinagar highlighted the enduring suffering of the Kashmiris due to decades of forced Indian occupation and brutality, with millions sacrificing their lives to resist this occupation.
Quoting Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Gilani’s words, “If India paves our roads with gold instead of tar, we will never accept Indian slavery,” Naqash emphasized that no economic package from India can address the deep wounds inflicted on Kashmiris.
APHC leader Farida Behanji in her statement in Srinagar said the people of the territory only want peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute according to the resolutions of the United Nations and aspirations of the Kashmiri people and no economic packages. Only acceptable solution for Kashmiris is complete independence from India, she asserted.
She underscored that the spirit of Kashmiri freedom could not be weakened, even in the face of India’s efforts to spread terror through nighttime raids and daylight harassment
Reiterating the long-pending demand for the resolution of the Kashmir dispute, Farida Behanji emphasized that lasting peace in South Asia is unattainable without addressing the Kashmir problem and restraining India’s unrestrained and expansionist ambitions.