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Mirwaiz Umar Farooq being arrested on way to Eidgah on August 26, 2016.
Reacting to Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh’s statement that “Kashmir is an integral part of India”, All Parties Hurriyat Conference (m) Monday said that Jammu and Kashmir is an “internationally-accepted” dispute since 1947.
“The proof of which lies in United Nations’ resolutions on it; promises made by the first Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru to Kashmiris, umpteen Indo-Pak accords and dialogue processes and the people’s resistance struggle since the last 70 years,” the Hurriyat Conference said in statement issued this evening.
Stressing that Government of India (GoI) should give up its “adamant stance, which is devoid of facts and ground realities”, the APHC-m said, “it should instead become serious to find a peaceful and long-lasting solution to the vexed Kashmir issue and initiate steps for its resolution, which would not only help in restoring peace in Kashmir but also create an environment for development and prosperity in entire South Asia.”
Commenting on the Home Minister’s reference to the oft repeated “rhetoric” of “Jamhooriyat, Insaaniyat and Kashmiriyat” in his press conference in Srinagar, the APHC-m asked Singh “if it was Insaaniyat (Humanity) under which GoI has martyred 74 civilians, most of whom are children and teenagers, blinded more than 200 and injured more than 10000, civilians many among whom have been handicapped and maimed”.
The Hurriyat Conference questioned whether Singh was referring to Jamhooriyat (Democracy) under which “his government has held Kashmiris hostage for the past two months and unleashed state repression of the worst form which would even put Nazis to shame”.
Meanwhile, the APHC-m said, “three Indian parliamentarians Assadudin Owaisi, Sitaram Yechury and D Raja who were part of the All parliamentary delegation from India came to meet Mirwaiz Umar Farooq who is under detention at sub-jail Chashma Shahi for the past 10 days”.
“The MPs were allowed inside the jail by the jail authorities. Mirwaiz met them briefly and conveyed the joint decision of ‘no talks’ with the delegation,” the Hurriyat Conference informed.
“As the delegation did not have the mandate to talk outside the Indian constitution and did not acknowledge the disputed nature of Kashmir but instead considered it an integral part of India, joint resistance leadership had decided that it was futile to engage with it as it could not in any way address the people’s will and aspirations, for which people are striving and greatly sacrificing,” the Hurriyat added. “Similar decision of no talks was conveyed to the delegation, which later went to meet executive member Prof Abdul Ghani Bhat at his residence.”
The APHC-m statement added, “despite curfew, restrictions and curbs, thousands of people participated in the Fateh Khawani prayers of the martyred youth Danish Sultan at Palpora in Srinagar.”
On the occasion, a delegation of APHC-m led by Muhammad Yaqoob Masoodi, on behalf of Mirwaiz paid glowing tributes to “martyr” Danish Sultan and made it clear that people of Kashmir in general and Kashmiri youth in particular “had resolved to take the on-going resistance movement to its goal and were ready to offer any sacrifice for it”.
The Hurriyat Conference strongly condemned the use of force and firing of pellets and bullets by the forces in south and north Kashmir in general and Kulgam, Lolab, Kupwara, Palpora and Noor Bagh in particular as a result of which hundreds of people had been injured.
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