APHC urges world to end Kashmiris’ misery under India’s illegal occupation
Srinagar: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference has urged the international community to intervene and end the unending miseries and injustices faced by the people of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, who continue to suffer under India’s unlawful and brutal occupation.
According to the Kashmir Media Service, APHC spokesman Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas, in a statement issued in Srinagar, called on the world community to take concrete steps to secure the political future of the oppressed Kashmiri people whose land, resources, and identity have been usurped by the Modi-led Indian government.
He said the Modi regime’s repressive tactics and colonial-style governance cannot break the will of Kashmiris or deter them from pursuing their inalienable right to self-determination. Coercion, intimidation, and harassment of political activists, journalists, and human rights defenders, he added, have become defining features of India’s policy in the occupied territory.
Terming the draconian laws imposed in IIOJK since August 2019 under the New Delhi-installed unelected Lieutenant Governor’s administration as a blatant violation of UN resolutions, the APHC urged powerful world governments to take effective notice of India’s settler-colonial project aimed at disempowering and displacing the indigenous population.
The APHC described India’s August 5, 2019 move as a deep-rooted conspiracy to erase political and cultural identity of the Kashmiri people, saying it has plunged the region into political uncertainty and repression.
Expressing grave concern over the absence of press freedom and freedom of expression in IIOJK, the spokesman reiterated that India’s continued use of force and suppression exposes its fear of the Kashmiri people’s legitimate struggle for freedom. He urged world leaders to use their influence to press India for a peaceful and just resolution of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with UN resolutions.
The APHC reiterated its appeal to the Kashmiri people to observe October 27 as Black Day in protest against India’s illegal and forcible occupation of Jammu and Kashmir, emphasizing that lasting peace in South Asia is impossible without resolving the Kashmir dispute in line with the aspirations of its people.
