Rehmani concerned about UN apathy towards peaceful Kashmir settlement
Islamabad: Senior leader of All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir (APHC-AJK) chapter Muhammad Farooq Rehmani has expressed concern over apathy of the United Nations and global and regional high-ups towards a peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute, particularly after India unilaterally fragmented the occupied Jammu and Kashmir and merged it as a union territory.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani in a statement in Islamabad said the so-called J&K Reorganisation Act tried to deform, degrade and depress the territory and its population, making it easy for demographic change and destabilisation of the social fabric.
He said after downgrading the occupied Jammu and Kashmir and converting it into two union territories by extending 890 Indian laws, repealing 205 or more State laws and modifying 129 State Acts, Indian Prime Minister Modi’s promises regarding restoration of statehood looked hollow, while the last elections exposed his rhetoric as a Bollywood film.
He said world indifference is responsible for the political and economic repression, demographic change and police-horror on the innocent and peaceful inhabitants of Kashmir. Although, he said, India’s racist Hindutva regime had failed to subdue the public, but its frustration is manifesting in its use of blind laws to crush the local youth.
Farooq Rehmani lamented that thousands of youth were in prisons, a rigorous campaign to arrest and detain every young man is going on; leaders have been languishing in prisons since the 1990s and suffering from prison-infectious diseases. Thousands of the Kashmiris were forced to flee to take refuge in Pakistan, while their properties have been seized, he added.
He pointed out that the ban was slashed on the Awami Action Committee (AAC), immediately after Mirwaiz’s remarks on a semi-nude show of some women at Gulmarg ; which had brazenly hit the morality, culture and values of the people of Kashmir.
Regarding the voices of human rights, he stated that even human rights advocates, defenders, free lance journalists and columnists and feature writers were not spared by the Indian authorities, who had no security and safety of life and no place in the present Hindutva-oriented totalitarian system of India.
