Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: All Parties Hurriyat Conference leaders including Mir Muhammad Iqbal, Firdous Ahmad Shah, and Ghulam Nabi Waseem have said that India’s unilateral and illegal actions of August 5, 2019, in occupied Jammu and Kashmir have further aggravated the already volatile situation in South Asia.
The APHC leaders in their statements in Srinagar said the RSS-backed Indian regime is misleading the world by falsely propagating that peace is returning to IIOJK after the revocation of Kashmir’s special status, said a press release.
Instead, the leaders said, India has intensified its efforts to brutalize Kashmiris and colonize Kashmir since August 5, 2019. They, however, maintained that Kashmiris’ passion for freedom can’t be conquered by the Indian militaristic approach in IIOJK and reiterated the resolve to take the freedom struggle to its logical end, against all odds.
The APHC leaders paid tribute to the Kashmiri martyrs and said that their sacrifices would never be allowed to go in vain.
The Hurriyat leaders also prayed for the speedy recovery of all ailing Hurriyat leaders including Abdul Samad Iqilabi, imprisoned in the cramped and dark cell of Varanasi Central Jail in Uttar Pradesh.
The Global Awareness Movement Jammu and Kashmir will observe “Right to Self-Determination Week” from January 2 to 9 to express solidarity with the people of the Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K).
According to details, the Chairman of Global Awareness Movement Jammu and Kashmir, Raja Ijaz Shaikh, in a statement issued in London said that in accordance with the approved resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, events will be organized in Britain, Europe, Pakistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir in connection with the “Right to Self-Determination Week” and the international community will be informed about the sentiments of the Kashmiris.
He said the people of the occupied territory would further intensify their activities in 2023 to highlight the Kashmir dispute at the international level and for a sustainable and peaceful solution to the lingering dispute.Raja Ijaz Shaikh said the people of Jammu and Kashmir, wherever they live in the world, will present the case of the people of occupied Kashmir in an organized manner on every diplomatic front.
He said in this connection, the first online conference will be held in Islamabad, in which British parliamentarians, Kashmiri and Pakistani political and other leaders, public representatives, and dignitaries from all regions of Jammu and Kashmir will participate.
He added that he would make the conference a success in collaboration with various organizations, political elites, leaders of human rights organizations, and central leadership of women and youth organizations.
Raja Ijaz Shaikh said that functions would be held in Manchester, London, Birmingham, Bradford, Islamabad, Lahore, Mirpur and Muzaffarabad, in addition to the capitals of the Middle East and European countries.
