Arrest of hundreds of Kashmiris during raids in IIOJK condemned
Islamabad: All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir (APHC-AJK) chapter has strongly condemned the arrest of more than six hundred Kashmiris during the unwarranted raids, siege and search operations on the houses of freedom-loving leaders and activists by Indian forces in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, APHC-AJK General Secretary Advocate Pervez Shah in a statement issued in Islamabad said the Indian forces are trying to suppress the Kashmir freedom movement by force by targeting innocent Kashmiris but will never succeed in their nefarious designs.
He said India has been lodging the freedom-loving leadership in jails of India and occupied Jammu and Kashmir for a long time, yet it has failed to weaken the Kashmiris’ freedom sentiment.
He expressed serious concern over the deteriorating health of Hurriyat leaders detained in Indian jails and said the jail administration is not providing medical and other facilities to Kashmiri freedom-loving prisoners. He said leaders like All Parties Hurriyat Conference Chairman Masarat Alam Butt, Shabbir Ahmed Shah and Muhammad Yasin Malik are suffering from various ailments but they are not being provided medical facilities, which is a question mark for human rights organizations.
The Hurriyat leader said occupied Jammu and Kashmir has turned into the world’s largest prison where more than one million Indian soldiers are deployed.
He urged the international community to play its role in resolving the Kashmir dispute according to the will of the Kashmiri people and the resolutions of the United Nations because lasting peace cannot be established in South Asia until the Kashmir dispute is resolved.
Meanwhile, senior leader of the APHC-AJK chapter, Syed Faiz Naqshbandi, in a statement in Islamabad, strongly condemned the ongoing Indian atrocities and large-scale arrests in IIOJK. He said that India has turned the occupied territory into an open-air prison by deploying more than one million troops, where mass arrests, house raids, arbitrary detentions, and other repressive measures have become a daily routine. He added that the Indian occupation authorities are forcibly seizing natural resources and land for military camps, making the lives of Kashmiris unbearable.
Naqshbandi urged the UN Secretary-General, members of the European Union, and the OIC countries to put pressure on India to end its brutalities in occupied Kashmir and to ensure the implementation of relevant UN resolutions for the final settlement of the Kashmir dispute.
