APHC-AJK hails role of Kashmiri women in ongoing freedom movement
Islamabad: All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir (APHC-AJK) chapter has expressed grave concern over the atrocities committed by Indian troops on women in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the concern was expressed during a seminar organized by the APHC-AJK chapter at its office in Islamabad on the occasion of International Women’s Day, today. Presided over by the chapter’s Convener, Mahmood Ahmed Saghar, former Deputy Speaker of AJK Legislative Assembly, Meher-un-Nisa was special guest.
The speakers paid rich tributes to the Kashmiri women who have rendered unparalleled sacrifices in the ongoing Kashmir freedom movement. Expressing grave concern over the plight of women in IIOJK, they said they were bravely facing the worst Indian brutalities. They said that the mass rape of Kunanposhpora, rape-cum-murder of two women in Shopian and gang rape and murder of 8-year-old Asifa Banu in Kathua were glaring examples of Indian atrocities on women in the occupied territory. They deplored that the Indian forces’ personnel were using rape as a weapon of war to subdue the freedom resolve of the Kashmiri women.
The speakers said the Indian troops have martyred husbands of thousands of women in fake encounters in IIOJK, rendering them widows. They said there are thousands of women who have no information about their husbands who have been subjected to forced disappearance by the Indian troops and police since 1989.
The speakers said Indian troops have blinded hundreds of Kashmiri women and girls with pellet guns. Many women including Hurriyat leaders and activists like Aasiya Andrabi, Naheeda Nasreen and Fehmeeda Sofi remain lodged in different jails of IIOJK and India, they said.
The speakers appealed to the UN, OIC and the international community to put pressure on India to give the Kashmiris their inalienable their right to self-determination.
The participants also included Muhammad Farooq Rahmani, Mir Tahir Masood, Shahnaz Khan, Nisar Mirza, Dawood Yousafzai, Aijaz Rehmani, Shaikh Yaqoob, Haji Sultan Butt, Sheikh Abdul Majid, Gulshan Ahmad, Manzoor Ahmad Dar, Raja Khadim Hussain, Imtiaz Wani, Raees Ahmad Mir, Khurshid Mir, Abdul Majeed Lone, Syed. Mushtaq, Mian Muzaffar, Mushtaq Ahmed Butt, Muhammad Ashraf Dar, Nazir Ahmed Karnai, Shaukat Ahmed Butt, and others.
