SRINAGAR: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference has condemned the extension of ban on prominent socio-politico-religious organization Jamaat-e-Islami in occupied Jammu and Kashmir by the BJP-led Hindutva government of India, saying the Kashmiris can’t be detached from the freedom movement through such arbitrary measures.
According to Kashmir Media Service, APHC spokesman in a statement issued in Srinagar said the fresh attempt of the Modi-led Indian government to extend ban on Jamaat-e-Islami for five more years was another act of brazen terrorism.
He said that hundreds of leaders and activist of Jamaat-e-Islami were already facing illegal detention in Indian jails. Besides, he added, the BJP regime had also confiscated properties and other assets worth crores of the socio-politico-religious organization for playing important role in the movement for peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute.
He said that the Modi government has already banned All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Muslim League, Democratic Freedom Party, Tehreek-e-Hurriyat, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front and Dukhtaran-e-Millat in the occupied territory for spearheading the Kashmiris’ ongoing freedom movement.
He maintained that banning Jamaat-e-Islami and other pro-freedom parties or attaching properties linked to them will not detach the Kashmiri people from raising their voice for social, religious and political rights including their inalienable right to self-determination as recognized by the United Nations resolutions.
The APHC spokesman said thwarting all peaceful and democratic means to resolve the Kashmir dispute and brutally quashing the Kashmiris’ freedom struggle can have devastating consequences for the region and beyond. People have, time and again, rejected the Indian illegal and forcible occupation and are rendered exemplary sacrifices to secure their right to self-determination, added the spokesman.
The APHC spokesman also urged the United Nations, European Union and Organization of Islamic Cooperation to take notice of the ongoing serious crimes against humanity in IIOJK and put pressure on India to resolve the Kashmir dispute in line with the Kashmiris’ aspirations.
