Srinagar All Parties Hurriyat Conference (M) has strongly denounced the continuous house detention of its chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, and barring him from performing social, religious and political obligations.
A spokesperson of the APHC (M) in a statement issued to GNS termed the move as “highly undemocratic, authoritarian and dictatorial”.
“The step is an eye opener as to how the rights of people in Kashmir are trampled through military might,” he said.
The spokesperson termed the continuous house detention of aged resistance leader and APHC (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani, lodging JKLF chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik at Kothi Bagh police station, arresting Hurriyat leaders including Mukhtar Ahmed Waza, Engineer Hilal War and dozens of other resistance leaders, youths and also the imams of various masajids, as “worst form of state terrorism”.
“On one hand, the massive crackdown has been launched against the resistance camp with jails being filled with them, and on the other hand, election drama is being enacted by banking on the thousands of forces who are deployed across length and breadth of Kashmir,” he said.
The amalgam added, “In presence of lakhs of forces across Kashmir, the valley has been turned into a military garrison where elections are being held under the barrel of gun just to give an impression to the world community that people of Kashmir were free and happy, but the fact remains that the world community has realised that people of Kashmir are subjected worst form of state terrorism and GoI is playing election drama just to buy time and divert world attention.”
“Instead of beating the drums of polls that have been rejected by the people, GoI must understand the ground realities and take concrete steps for resolved this vexed dispute as per the wishes and aspirations of its people so that peace returns in South Asia,” the APHC (M) spokesperson said.
He added that the only way to resolve Kashmir is to hold the plebiscite or to involve all three parties to the dispute – people of Kashmir, India and Pakistan for a meaningful and result-oriented dialogue. (GNS)
