The All Parties Hurriyat Conference has strongly denounced the imposition of curfew-like restrictions in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir in the name of security for G20 event, scheduled in the last week of May in Srinagar.
In a statement in Srinagar, the APHC spokesman said the Narendra Modi-led fascist Indian regime has kept the entire Kashmiri population under military siege where people are not even allowed to perform Lailatul Qadr prayers with freedom.
He said that hundreds of personnel of Indian paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force and Border Security Force were deployed around Srinagar’s historic Jamia Masjid during the whole night, which is blatant interference in religious matters.
The spokesman urged the world community, particularly the United Nations, to play an effective role in peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute.
In utter disrespect to the religious sentiments of the Kashmiri Muslims, the BJP regime has ordered a ban on the Eid congregation at Central Eidgah in South Kashmir’s Islamabad district.
Meanwhile, rich tributes were paid to the martyred resistance leader, S Hameed Wani, on his 25th martyrdom anniversary, today. He was killed by Indian troops in his hometown Srinagar on this day in 1998.
Senior APHC leader Nayeem Ahmad Khan in a message from New Delhi’s Tihar jail said that S Hammed Wani was a legendary character who sacrificed his life for the freedom of his motherland, Kashmir, from the tyrannical clutches of India.
He deplored that the ruthless suppression of dissent in the occupied territory has resulted in the wholesale arrests and imprisonment of political workers, civil and rights activists.
Other APHC leaders including Ghulam Muhammad Khan Sopori, Abdul Ahad Parra, Jameel Ahmad and Prof Tauqeer Ahmed also paid tributes to martyred S Hameed Wani.
APHC-AJK chapter held a condolence meeting in Islamabad to eulogize great contributions of S Hameed Wani to the Kashmiris’ struggle for right to self-determination.
On the other hand, renowned Kashmiri human rights defender, Khurram Parvez, has been elected Deputy General Secretary of the France-based International Federation for Human Rights.
