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Gilani: Illegal detentions cannot deter Kashmiris
Written by KMS
Monday, 30 August 2010 23:03
Srinagar, August 30, 2010: The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Gilani, has said that illegal detention of pro-freedom leaders and activists by the authorities cannot break Kashmiris resolve to get freedom from India.
Syed Ali Gilani, in a media interview in Srinagar, said that the puppet administration was resorting to autocratic tactics to crush the ongoing movement. It was high time for India to accept the ground realities. The people of Kashmir are struggling for their inalienable right to self-determination, he added.
He that the struggle of Kashmiri people had entered into a decisive phase. He said that the ongoing movement would continue till India accepted Kashmir as a dispute, withdrew its troopers from the occupied territory and released all the illegally detained Hurriyet leaders and activists.
Syed Ali Gilani said that the mass participation of people in "Quit Kashmir Movement" had frustrated the occupation authorities. Indian troopers and police have been given unbridled powers to kill and harass the unarmed Kashmiris, he maintained.
Emphasising that the sacrifices rendered by over one-lakh martyrs should serve as a glaring example of Kashmiris resolve, he said India could not muzzle the just voice of Kashmiri people through use of brute force.
He further said that India was delaying the resolution of Kashmir dispute by projecting it as an economic issue just to hoodwink the international community.
On the other hand, the Jammu and Kashmir Tehreek-e-Hurriyet, headed by Syed Ali Gilani, has hailed China for disallowing the Chief of Indias Northern military command based in the territory to enter the country. A spokesman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyet, in a statement issued in Srinagar, appealed the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) to adopt the same policy and make India realize that its occupation of Kashmir was illegal.
Hurriyet leader and the Vice Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Muslim League, Masarrat Alam Butt, has reiterated to continue the freedom struggle till its logical conclusion, despite all odds.
Masarrat Alam Butt in a media interview condemned the imposition of curfew and restrictions by the occupation authorities in the territory.
"Indian troops have unleashed a reign of terror in the occupied territory. They open fire straight at unarmed and innocent Kashmiris, he added.
He said that New Delhi wanted to suppress the ongoing freedom movement through use of brute force. India can not deter Kashmiris resolve to get freedom from its illegal occupation through use of brute force, he maintained.
He said that as many as sixty-four innocent Kashmiri youth, most of them students and children, had been martyred by the occupation forces so far during the current agitation. he maintained that the Sikh community was fully safe in the occupied Valley.
Dukhtaran-e-Millat Jammu and Kashmir has denounced the illegal detention of its Chairperson, Aasiya Andrabi and her close associate by the authorities.
The Acting Chairperson of Dukhtaran-e-Millat, Riffat Fatima, in a statement issued in Srinagar, termed the illegal detention of Aasiya as the frustration of the puppet administration. The authorities are trying to suppress the ongoing freedom movement through use of brute force, she added.
She said that the administration was subjecting Aasiya Andrabi to political vendetta and had been detaining her husband for the last seventeen years. Riffat condemned the illegal detention of DeM Chairperson during Ramadan in past three years.
The spokesman of Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir, in a statement issued in Srinagar, condemned the unlawful arrest of Aasiya. He urged India to settle the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the aspirations of Kashmiri people by implementing the relevant United Nations resolutions.
On the other hand, the spokesman of Press Guild of Kashmir in a statement flayed Indian police for torturing a scribe, working with a local daily. He warned of worst consequences if the police did not stop subjecting the reporters and photojournalists to torture.
Indian troops in their fresh act of state terrorism martyred six innocent Kashmiri youth in Baramulla district. The troops martyred the youth in Uri area of the district during a military operation.
A trooper of Indian Border Security Force (BSF), Lokesh Kheti, committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle while on duty at Khayara Post in Samba district. This raised the number of such deaths amongst Indian troops and police personnel in the occupied territory to 191 since January 2007.
Indian police have arrested eleven people including Hurriyet leader and the Acting President of Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Political Movement, advocate Muhammad Shafi Reshi, from different places. The police arrested Muhammad Shafi Reshi along with four other people from Baba Demb area of Srinagar. Reshi is a member of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association.
The police arrested two students for raising anti-India and pro-liberation slogans at the gate of Jammu University. A police team conducted raid at Khatianka Talab area of Jammu city and arrested the students identified as Qamran and Shafiq. The police also arrested five persons in Handwara for participating in anti-India demonstrations.
On the other hand, people took to streets in Habba Kadal, Chota Bazar, Shaheed Gunj, Karfali Mohalla, Kani Kadal, Islamabad, Bijbehara, Sangam, Qaimoh, Kulgam, Pulwama, Kakapora, Pampore, Awantipora, Tral, Kupwara, Handwara and Baramulla areas and staged pro-freedom demonstrations. Indian troops and police personnel resorted to heavy baton charge and excessive teargas shelling to disperse the protestors at many places, injuring several people.
Locals said that the troops and policemen broke windowpanes of many houses and damaged the vehicles passing through the areas. Residents of Islamabad said that the troops smashed windowpanes of several houses and a Mosque at Ghaziabad. In Tahab area of Pulwama, a hawaldar of 8th battalion Armed Police was beaten to pulp by CRPF troopers after he rejected their chasing away an eight-y
Gilani: Illegal detentions cannot deter Kashmiris