SRINAGAR: Illegally detained All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) leader Nayeem Ahmed Khan has urged the United Nations General Secretary António Guterres to take notice of human rights violations by Indian troops in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Nayeem Ahmed Khan in his message from New Delhi’s Tihar jail has said that the Indian invasion of Kashmir in 1947 was the most dreadful incident of India’s colonial history that threw the region into throes of instability and perpetual violence.
He said India’s continuous denial to grant right to self-determination to the people of Kashmir has brought death and destruction in the region. “Kashmiris are being brutally victimized by over one million Indian military and paramilitary personnel deployed in the length and breadth of Kashmir,” he added.
While paying tributes to the Bijbehara and other martyrs, he maintained that the Kashmiris would continue their freedom struggle till the settlement of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the United Nations resolutions and will of the Kashmiri people.
The jailed APHC leader said India’s attempt to legalize its illegality rests on a bogus instrument of accession by a Maharaja, which he had no authority to sign in any event. British historian Alastair Lamb in his book had convincingly demonstrated that the “Instrument of accession” was bogus, he added.
He said, on one hand, India had backtracked from its commitments regarding the resolution of Kashmir dispute, while on the other, its refusal to accept international mediation seems to shut the door for any kind of international dialogue on Kashmir.
The jailed leader urged the Indian government to give up its intransigence on the Kashmir dispute, adding dialogue is the only way forward to seek a just and lasting settlement of the lingering dispute.
Rich tributes paid to martyrs of Bijbehara massacre
The leaders of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) have paid rich tributes to the martyrs of Bijbehara massacre on their 30th martyrdom anniversary.
According to Kashmir Media Service, over 50 innocent Kashmiris were martyred in the Bijbehara area of Islamabad district on October 22, 1993, when the personnel of Indian Border Security Force opened fire on the peaceful demonstrators, who were protesting against the Indian military siege of Srinagar’s Hazratbal shrine.
The APHC leaders including Ghulam Muhammad Khan Sopori, Syed Bashir Andrabi, Khawaja Firdous, Abdul Ahad Parra, Saleem Zargar, Yasmeen Raja, Zamrooda Habib, Farida Behanji, Maulana Musaib Nadvi, Javaid Ahmed Mir, Fayaz Hussain Jafari and Syed Sibte Shabbir Qummi, in their separate statements in Srinagar said the sacrifices of the Kashmiri martyrs will bring positive results and the day is not far away when the Kashmiris will get freedom and political justice which has been snatched by the Indian government since 1947.
