APHC urges India to shun rigidity and accept realities of Kashmir dispute
Srinagar: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference has urged the Indian government to shun its stubbornness, accept the ground realities of the Kashmir dispute.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the APHC spokesman, Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas, in a statement issued in Srinagar, condemned the upsurge in cordon-and-search operations during the cold nights and days aimed at suppressing the freedom sentiments of the people in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. He lashed out at the Indian forces and the BJP-installed communal Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha for their inhuman behavior towards the besieged and oppressed people of the disputed territory.
The occupied territory, he said, is a massive jail where the political voices and activities of its residents are being silenced under the barrel of the gun and draconian laws, forcing them to live lives worse than those of convicted criminals and slaves. He stated that even prisoners of war are entitled to facilities under international law, but the people of Kashmir, besieged by more than one million Indian occupation forces, are forced to endure a hellish life under an undeclared war imposed by New Delhi.
The spokesman denounced India’s suppressive and oppressive measures, including its attempts to impose a Hindutva agenda through so-called railway projects in Bijbehara and Pahalgam and proposed satellite township projects in Srinagar. He termed these measures part of an anti-Kashmir agenda aimed at changing the demography of the Muslim-majority region and restricting the economic and social movements of locals. He remarked that these farcical and theoretical gimmicks tried by India have miserably failed in Kashmir.
The spokesman also condemned the authorities for preventing senior APHC leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq from offering Friday prayers at Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, terming it a blatant violation of the religious rights of Muslims. He strongly criticized Mirwaiz Umar Farooq’s continued house arrest, describing it as sheer interference in and violation of religious matters and rights.
The APHC spokesman urged the United Nations Secretary-General to press India to stop the genocide in Kashmir and allow a free and fair plebiscite in the territory, as mandated by United Nations Security Council resolutions.
