Accept Kashmir a dispute, Gilani advised Indian delegation
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Written by KMS
Tuesday, 21 September 2010 23:25
Srinagar, September 21, 2010: The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Syed Ali Gilani has said that Kashmir is case of illegal occupation and since 1947 over six hundred thousand Kashmiris have laid down their lives for freedom of Jammu and Kashmir from India.
Syed Ali Gilani, while talking to an All-Party delegation of Indian Parliament, which called on him at his Hyderpora residence, said that even the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru had promised the Kashmiris to give them the right to self-determination.
He told the delegation that India took the Kashmir dispute to the United Nations but failed to fulfill its promise of giving Kashmiris their right to choose their future themselves, adding that Kashmiris would not surrender before the blind might of Indian government. Like the occupation of India by British was illegitimate, in the same way Indian occupation of Kashmir is illegitimate. Kashmiris would perish but will not submit to India. You should prepare the government of India, people of India and BJP for this reality, Syed Ali Gilani told the delegation.
The delegation comprised Sitaram Yechury, Asaduddin Owaisi, T.R. Baalu, Rattan Singh Ajnala and Namanageshwar Rao.
Syed Ali Gilani said that Indian forces are responsible for killings, disappearances, **** and arson in Occupied State of Jammu & Kashmir (OSJK). He deplored that over 100 people had been murdered in the past three months.
The Chairman of APHC also handed over his five-point formula, which says that India should accept Kashmir a disputed territory, agree for demilitarisation, release illegally detained Kashmiri Hurriyat leaders and activists, try Indian forces personnels, responsible for killings and revoke draconian law, Armed Forces Special Powers Act.
Later, talking to mediamen, Syed Ali Gilani termed the visit of the All-Party delegates to his house as cosmetic unless they highlighted the plight of Kashmiris before New Delhi.
The Jamaat-e-Islami of OSJK, while describing the visit of Indian All-Party delegation to Srinagar as meaningless, has said that Kashmiris should be given right to decide their political future in a free atmosphere. The spokesman of Jamaat-e-Islami in a statement issued in Srinagar said that all the pro-India parties and their leaders were already well aware of the ground situation in the occupied territory but were turning a blind eye to it.
He said that besides committing gross human rights violations, India had also imposed ban on freedom of local press so that the world could not know about the real situation in OSJK. The spokesman said that giving right of self-determination to Kashmiris was a pre-requisite for maintaining peace in Jammu and Kashmir, in particular, and, South Asia, in general.
In the meanwhile, A protest demonstration was held in front of the UN office in Geneva to attract the world attention especially the United Nations towards the stepped up Indian state terrorism in OSJK. Heads of the Kashmir Centres in Brussels and London, Barrister Abdul Majeed Tramboo and Professor Nazir Ahmad Shawl, led the demonstration. A large number of people including the Sikh and Christian community participated in the protest demonstration.
On the occasion, the demonstrators raised high-pitched slogans like Wake up UN and Stop Indian barbarism in Kashmir. The participants had also banners and placards inscribed with slogans in favour of freedom and against Indian state terrorism.
The protesters also projected the names and posters of Kashmiri children martyred by Indian troops in Jammu and Kashmir. The participants of the protest appealed to the United Nations to play its due role in granting birthright to self-determination to Kashmiris and help resolve the Kashmir dispute in accordance with Kashmiris aspirations.
Accept Kashmir a dispute, Gilani advised Indian delegation