AJK protesters rally to condemn blacklisting of Hizbul Mujahideen by US
A rally to condemn the
United States' recent decision to blacklist Hizbul Mujahideen as a 'terrorist organisation' was held in Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), on Thursday.
The US decision came weeks after Hizbul Mujahideen commander
Syed Salahuddin was designated a global terrorist.
“Hizbul Mujahideen is a not a terrorist organisation but stands for the sentiments and aspirations of Kashmiris and is the centre of their hopes,” read a banner carried by protesters.
The demonstrators chanted anti-India and pro-freedom slogans while condemning the US decision as they walked from Burhan Wani Chowk to Garhipan Chowk.
“You can withhold our properties and [bank] accounts if there are any [in the US], but you cannot force us to give up our legitimate struggle for freedom,” Shaikh Jamilur Rehman, secretary general of United Jihad Council (UJC), said.
“We will carry on our struggle, which is in accordance with the UN Charter, until the eviction of the last Indian soldier from our motherland,” he vowed.
The UJC is an amalgam of over a dozen groups fighting India’s occupation of Kashmir. Salahuddin serves as its chairman.
Rehman rubbished what he called "propaganda against Kashmiri separatist groups" as “an attempt to please the Narendra Modi-led Indian government.”
"Hizbul Mujahideen is an indigenous organisation, engaged in a legitimate struggle for the right to self determination enshrined in UN Security Council resolutions," he said. “It cannot be dubbed as a terrorist organisation by any stretch of the imagination.”
"The days of America acting as the 'Big Brother' are numbered as another superpower, which supports the Kashmir cause, is on the rise," Rehman said, referring to China.
Uzair Ahmed Ghazali, an organiser of the protest, regretted what he called the US turning a blind eye towards state-sponsored terrorism in held Kashmir.
"The US is also silent on terrorism unleashed by fanatic Hindus and so-called cow vigilantes on Indian Muslims," he added.
“If anyone has to be designated as a 'terrorist' in today’s world, it is Indian premier Narendra Modi and Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu; but both are advancing their ghastly agendas under American patronage,” he said.
Ghulamullah Azad, a leader of the proscribed Jamaatud Dawa, termed the US decision “ridiculous” and said it would make no difference to the armed struggle in held Kashmir.
“First, they clamped a similar decision on Hafiz Muhammad Saeed; then, the did the same for Syed Salahuddin. However, the struggle in held Kashmir has not suffered a dent due to the exemplary determination of Kashmiri people … The latest decision will also meet the same fate,” he said.
Earlier, the
Foreign Office (FO) had termed the decision to designate Hizbul Mujahideen as "saddening".
Addressing a weekly media briefing, FO spokesperson Nafees Zakaria had said that Kashmiris' struggle for their right to self-determination has been rightfully continuing for the past 70 years.
He had also noted that Indian occupation forces had used excessive force against people in held Kashmir and they are "continuing to do so".
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MARK MY WORDS. nothing will come out of it expect Pakistan will make more trouble for America in geopolitics. Things are not going through the thick skulls of American establishment that world no longer run on their whims. Look what happned to Hafiz Saeed, they put bounty over his head, he has now launched his political party and will feilding candidate in upcoming by election for NA-120. THESE ARE THE GROUND REALITIES OF PAKISTAN.
Buddy, you are nothing , absolutely nothing against the knowledge of the man. Get down from your high horses. The man headed the MI6 for heaven sake! You see Brits are clever people, they knew when to call it a day when the Pax Britannica was over. Rednecks being who they are, are refusing to accept the realities to today.
More non sense and irrelveant stuff.
These are the ground realities.
US tried to insert their puppet governemnt in Ukrain and block Russain access to black sea, Russia in response annex Crimea, punished Ukraine.
US tried to install its own puppet in Georgia, the result was same,
US tried the regime change in Syria, Asad is still standing there thanks to Russian support and Russian military presence has now increased many folds in ME, which wasnt the case before.
And the most important point which you deliberately ignored.
RUSSIA MANIPULATED LAST AMERICAN ELECTION!!
When America can exert such influence in Russia, then come and talk with me.
Pax American is well and truly buried.
You are very gullible and not looking at the bigger picture. Instead of South and North Korea bickering about this, it has become a North Korea and America issue, while South Korea is keeping itself away from this talk of war. Anyone can see how America has been reduced to dealing with states like north Korea while China has assumed the role of bigger and mature power.
Leon Panetta is the same man who used to hurl a lot of non sense against Pakistan when incharge of CIA. I wont take him seriously.
Agreed with you. We now live in a multipolar world now. Pax-Americana is dead in the water.
cuckistanis can only watch kashmiri terrorists getting fcked on a daily basis. its no coincidence amir khan is a cuckistani
