APHC links peace in S.Asia to Kashmir solution
Protesting job seekers face brute force, arrests
Srinagar, March 09 (KMS): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference has said that peace cannot be established in South Asia until the Kashmir dispute is resolved in accordance with the United Nations’ resolutions and aspirations of the Kashmiri people
According to Kashmir Media Service, the APHC spokesman in a statement issued in Srinagar urged the United Nations and world major powers to show seriousness about settling the lingering Kashmir dispute, which has claimed thousands of innocent lives, so far.
Indian agency, Enforcement Directorate, along with paramilitary and police personnel raided the houses of APHC leaders Muhammad Iqbal Mir, Qazi Yasir and Zafar Akbar Butt in Srinagar, Islamabad and other areas of of the occupied territory. It is worth mentioning here that the raids are part of the Modi regime’s policy of attaching the inherent properties of resistance leaders for raising their voice against India’s illegal occupation of their motherland .
Meanwhile, Indian police, today, detained scores of job seekers after they staged a demonstration for the second consecutive day, today, at Panama chowk in Jammu against the hiring of a black-listed Mumbai-based company, APTECH Limited, to conduct the J&K Services Selection Board examinations. Similar protests were held in Doda, Bhaderwah, Rajouri and other parts of Jammu region as well as at Press Enclave in Srinagar.
Regional politicians including Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah in their statements in Srinagar condemned the arrest and use of police force on the protesting job aspirants. Congress leader Raman Bhalla raised the question about the hiring of the blacklisted Indian company.
In Geneva, Kashmiri representative, Altaf Hussain Wani, Syed Faiz Naqshbandi, Hassan Bana, Amjad Yousuf and Shamim Shawl in their addresses during the ongoing 52nd session of the Human Rights Council informed the participants how the Indian government is using different tactics including excessive force, draconian laws, extra-judicial and custodial killings, rape, torture and arbitrary detentions to suppress the freedom movement in occupied Jammu and Kashmir. KMS