F.P. Report
ISLAMABAD: All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani has reiterated the call for complete election boycott and shutdown today (Mond-ay) in Kulgam district of Indian Held Kashmir (IHK).
Syed Ali Gilani in a statement issued in Srinagar said, “By observing a boycott we can peacefully and meaningfully once again highlight the Kashmir dispute at international level that the people of Kashmir want settlement of the long pending dispute,” KMS reported.
He said participation in any election sponsored by Indian might amounts to treason and betrayal with martyrs’ blood and disgrace for sacrifices rendered by the people of Kashmir. He said any election process, India tries to conduct, is nothing but an armed drill to threaten the common people. “We are indebted by the sacrifices of our nation never to even think of any compromise and we pledge to take this sacred movement to its logical conclusion”, he added.
The APHC Chairman said when any nation comes out of the confusion, chaos and uncertainly, no matter at what cost and collectively trying very hard to break the shackles of the forced oppression, no power on earth can defeat them from pursuing their cherished mission of freedom. Terming the election drama a mere military operation, Syed Ali Gilani said to ensure the so-called graveyard peace, tens of thousands guns have been called in to throttle and harass the already suffocated population of Kashmir.
Also, a senior APHC leader and the Chairman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, has expressed concern over ill-treatment meted out to the Kashmiri prisoners in jails.
He said in a statement in Srinagar that the Kashmiri detainees are being punished for their political belief and legitimate political rights.
He urged the world bodies and international organizations fighting for the prisoners’ justice to visit the jails in Jammu and Kashmir and also various prisons in India.
Meanwhile, Indian police arrested two Kashmiri youth during a crackdown operation in Wathoora area of Chadoora in Budgam district, today. The detainees were identified as Mushtaq Ahmad Rather and Junaid Ahmad Dar, who are residents of Wathoora area.
Srinagar-Leh highway after remaining cut off from the rest of the world for at least five months was reopened for vehicular traffic, today. The 443 kilometer long highway was opened after the clearance of snow.
