Srinagar, February 20, 2023 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference has urged the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to intervene on urgent basis for the just settlement of the Kashmir dispute to avert the South Asian region from plunging into a big catastrophe as the dispute is involving three nuclear states in the neighbourhood.
Illegally detained senior APHC leader Naeem Ahmad Khan in a message from New Delhi’s Tihar Jail regretted that India has turned occupied Jammu and Kashmir into a battlefield where its troops are treating entire civilian population as an enemy.
The APHC leader also called upon the UN Human Rights Council and other international rights organizations to send their teams to assess the ground situation in occupied Jammu and Kashmir. He said that all basic rights have been taken away from the oppressed people and the ongoing eviction and demolition campaign is a proof that Indian troops are involved in war crimes against the Kashmiri people.
Meanwhile, APHC-AJK Information Secretary Imtiaz Wani and other Hurriyat leaders including Syed Ijaz Rahmani, Sheikh Muhammad Yaqoob, Manzoor Ahmad Shah and Zahid Ashraf in their statements in Islamabad said that the Modi regime backed by Hindu extremist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is hell-bent on taking away everything from the Kashmiri people. They deplored that the people are being robbed of their lands to change the demography of the territory. They vowed that Kashmiris would never allow India to implement its Hindutva agenda as Jammu and Kashmir is a disputed territory whose political future is yet to be ascertained through UN-sponsored plebiscite.
The APHC-AJK leaders demanded immediate release of all Kashmiri detainees including APHC Chairman Masarrat Aalam Butt, Naeem Ahmed Khan, Aasiya Andrabi, Fahmida Sufi, Dr. Qasim Faktu, Dr. Shafi Shariati, Abdul Samad Inlqilabi, Bilal Siddiqui, Pir Saifullah, Ayaz Akbar, Muhammad Yousuf Mir, and human rights activists Khurram Parvez and Muhammad Ahsan Untto from Indian jails.
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