Saturday, January 30, 2010

Kashmiris struggling for right to self-determination: JKSM


India can’t suppress righteous movement Srinagar, January 29: The senior APHC leader and Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Salvation Movement, Zaffar Akbar Bhat has expressed hope that the international community will take serious and solid steps for amicable and peaceful solution of the Kashmir dispute. He reiterated that India cannot suppress the ongoing liberation movement through use of brute force and atrocities as the people of Kashmirare struggling for securing right to self-determination.
APHC leader, while addressing a Juma gathering at Beerwah in Budgam, appealed the world community and the international human rights organisations to take notice of continued human rights violations by police men and paramilitary forces in Jammu and Kashmir and put pressure on India to resolve the Kashmir dispute in accordance with Kashmiris’ aspirations. He also condemned the use of teargas, lathi charge and bullet shots on peaceful demonstrators in Srinagar, Sopore, Baramulla and Pulwama areas.
Urging India to start negotiations to settle the Kashmir dispute, Bhat said the Kashmir dispute was so still unresolved due to rigid stance and military might policies of India.
He said that the people of Kashmir had rendered unprecedented sacrifices and they would continue their just struggle for securing right to self-determination till its logical conclusion. Bhat while paying rich tributes to Kashmiri martyrs including Shaheed Shamsul Haq, Mohammad Ashraf Dar, Nasirul Islam, Maajed Dar, Muzaffar and others said that the sacrifices of the martyrs will not go waste.
Demanding an immediate release of all detained Hurriyet leaders and activists, Bhat said that they were deprived of basic facilities in the jails and were suffering from several diseases in the jails.
Later, JKSM Chairman, Zaffar Akbar Bhat visited the house of one religious scholar, Syed Mohammad Lateef, and expressed profound grief and sorrow over the sad demise of the mother of the scholar. He offered Fateha for the departed soul and prayed Allah Almighty to give courage to the bereaved family to bear the irreparable loss

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