India targeting religious places to suppress Kashmiris’ struggle Srinagar, August 26 (Srinagar News Agency): In occupied Kashmir, the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, has said that India is targeting the religious places of the territory to suppress the Kashmiris’ ongoing struggle for securing their inalienable right to self-determinat ion.The APHC Chairman was addressing a meeting of Hurriyet leaders, religious scholars and intellectuals at Mirwaiz Manzil in Srinagar to mark today as the Day of Sanctity. He termed the 25th August as the black day in the history of Jammu and Kashmir as Indian troops had raided the Srinagar Jamia Masjid on this day in 1989, hurting religious sentiment of the Muslims. He deplored that many religious places like Hazratbal, Chrar-e-Sharief and Peer Dastgir Sahib Shrine were desecrated by Indian forces in the occupied territory during the past 24 years. The meeting was also addressed among others by Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi Al-Safvi, Maulana Abbas Ansari, Mukhtar Ahmed Waza, Javed Ahmed Mir, Syed Bashir Andrabi, advocate Zahid Ali, Abdur Rehman Butt and Maulana Showkat Ahmed Keng. They said that besides desecration of religious places, Indian forces were stoking sectarian discord in the territory to engage the Kashmiris in the infighting. Senior APHC leader, Professor Abdul Ghani Butt, chairing a delegate session of his party, Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference, in Srinagar, today, said that resolution of the Kashmir dispute was imperative for cordial relations between Pakistan and India as well as permanent peace in South Asia. Earlier in the meeting, he was re-elected President of the party for a four-year term. The Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Muhammad Yasin Malik, addressing public gatherings in different areas of Shopian said that the world community instead of issuing mere statements of advice should play active role for settlement of the lingering dispute. His addresses were punctuated by high-pitched anti-India and pro-liberation slogans. The veteran Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, in a statement in Srinagar said, Jammu and Kashmir is an international dispute and any kind of international activity will have an adverse effect on its disputed nature. He was referring to a proposed cultural programme being organized in Srinagar by German Ambassador to India, Michel Stenier, on September 7. He appealed the Ambassador to reconsider his decision and honour the sacrifices, sentiments and aspirations of the Kashmiri people. The spokesman of Tehreek-e-Hurri yet Jammu and Kashmir in his statement denounced the illegal detention of the party leader, Muhammad Shaba’an Dar, under draconian law, Public Safety Act. The Chairman of International Council for Human Rights, Barrister Abdul Majeed Tramboo, in a statement in Brussels condemned the arrest of innocent youth by Indian police in Shopian town of occupied Kashmir.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 04:59:11 +0000
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