· Modi cannot suppress freedom spirit: Shabbir Shah
· AP’s ‘disputed Kashmir’ narrative goes well in IIOJK
Srinagar, January 31 (KMS): Incarcerated senior leader of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, has denounced the attachment of Hurriyat office in Srinagar and said that the Modi government can confiscate and attach public properties but it cannot suppress the Kashmiris’ spirit for freedom, deeply rooted in their hearts and minds.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Shabbir Ahmed Shah in his message from New Delhi’s infamous Tihar Jail termed the move as a part of the sinister agenda of India’s ruling RSS-BJP nexus to silence political dissent in the occupied territory. He warned the Indian apartheid regime of an-inclusive uprising against the attempts to make the Kashmiris strangers in their own land.
Other APHC leaders including Syed Bashir Andrabi and Khawaja Firdous in their statements in Srinagar said that India was using new tactics to weaken the Kashmiris’ just freedom struggle. They, however, maintained that India had lost the war in Jammu and Kashmir, which is evident from the fact that New Delhi has deployed more than 900,000 occupation troops in the small region.
APHC-AJK leadership in a statement issued in Islamabad said that the Kashmiri people would resist the Hindutva onslaught in IIOJK. The leadership urged the United Nations to stop New Delhi from carrying out brutal and undemocratic actions in the occupied territory.
Meanwhile, Leh-based innovator-turned-climate activist Sonam Wangchuk in a video statement on Twitter said that seeing the current situation in Ladakh, it is felt that the people of the cold desert region were better-off with pre-2019 Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Earlier this month, Chering Dorjay, leader of the Apex Body of Leh and senior vice president of Ladakh Buddhist Association in an interview with an Indian TV channel had also expressed similar views. He had said given the present scenario, we feel the earlier arrangement of being part of J&K was better.
In what is a total rejection of India’s self-styled claim on Kashmir, a story by the US news agency Associated Press has emphatically used the word “disputed” for Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir while covering India’s opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi’s march Bharat Jodo Yatra. The story titled “Indian opposition’s ‘unity march’ ends in disputed Kashmir” runs on Yahoo search engine. The AP’s clear-cut narration on Kashmir went down well across occupied Jammu and Kashmir where people are spearheading a struggle for UN-acknowledged right to self-determination.