APHC-AJK, JKLC organize seminar in Islamabad
Pay glowing tributes to July 13, 1931 martyrs
Islamabad: All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir (APHC-AJK) chapter and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Cell (JKLC) organized a seminar in Islamabad on the occasion of Kashmir Martyrs’ Day today.
According to Kashmir Media Service, APHC-AJK senior leader Muhammad Farooq Rahmani presided over the seminar and rich tributes were paid to the martyrs of July 13, 1931.
Various political, social, academic and Kashmiri leaders also participated in the seminar.
Former president of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Sardar Masood Khan, former Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Farzana Yaqoob, Nabila Irshad, Asma Shakir Khawaja, Shamim Shawl, Mahmood Ahmed Saghar, Muhammad Rafiq Dar, Hassan Al-Banna, Mushtaq Pirzada, Raja Khan Afsar Khal, Altaf Hussain Wani and Najeebullah Ghafoor addressed the seminar.
The speakers in their speeches said July 13, 1931, is an unforgettable day in the history of Jammu and Kashmir, when the soldiers of the Dogra ruler shot and martyred 22 persons who were completing the call to prayer and raising the voice of truth and justice outside the Srinagar Central Jail.
They said these great sacrifices strengthened the foundation of the Kashmir freedom movement and gave new strength to the Kashmiri people’s spirit of freedom. They said after the end of the Dogra Raj in 1947, India occupied Jammu and Kashmir through military force and has deprived the Kashmiri people of their basic human, political and democratic rights till date.
The speakers said the Indian government has reached the peak of oppression and repression in occupied Jammu and Kashmir under its Hindutva policies. Political activists, Hurriyat leadership, youth and ordinary citizens are facing the worst state repression while systematic efforts are underway to convert the Muslim majority of the occupied territory into a minority, they lamented.
The speakers reiterated their resolve that despite Indian state terrorism, illegal measures and continuous atrocities, the morale of the Kashmiri people is high and they will continue their struggle at all costs until the mission of the martyrs of 1931 is fulfilled, the right to self-determination is achieved and the freedom movement is successful.
They called upon the United Nations, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the international community and international human rights organizations to take immediate notice of the ongoing serious human rights violations and to pressure India to grant the Kashmiri people their inalienable right to self-determination in accordance with relevant UN resolutions.
The seminar was attended among others by Senator Zarqa Suhrawardy, Sheikh Abdul Mateen, Dawood Khan Yousafzai, Manzoor Ahmed Dar, Haji Sultan Butt, Muhammad Shafi Dar, Nisar Mirza, Adeel Mushtaq, Abdul Majeed Lone, Muhammad Ashraf Dar, Zahid Mushtaq, Mian Muzaffar, Raja Pervez, Sarwar Hussain Gilgiti and Imtiaz Wani.
