Indian forces snatching people’s rights in IIOJK: APHC
Srinagar: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has said that Indian forces and police establishment, under the BJP’s LG Minhaj Sinha, laced with unbridled powers under draconian laws, are snatching rights of people at their free will in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, APHC spokesman Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas in a statement in Srinagar said that every institution in India was treating Kashmiris as their enemies, who had no human rights.
He said unless the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is abolished, the gross human rights violations and atrocities will continue and ‘we will keep losing our rights and voices’.
He condemned the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Indian government, its police and agencies for the attachment of properties belonging to Hurriyat activists and individuals advocating their right to self-determination and plebiscite, acknowledged by United Nations resolutions.
The APHC spokesman said that Indian authorities were desperate to change the narrative on the Kashmir dispute. He added that dialogue was the only option to resolve the lingering Kashmir dispute.
“We are not against the dialogue process, but we favour only meaningful and result-oriented negotiations. We have a clear stance that the Kashmir dispute can be resolved through dialogue and our viewpoint is unambiguous,” he added.
He urged the world human rights organizations to take cognizance of the extremely grave human rights situation in the occupied territory and highlight it at the global level. He said the silence of the Indian rights activists, humanists, print media, writers and columnists at the rising graph of the worst situation in Kashmir is extremely sad and discouraging.
