25 April 2009

In occupied Kashmir, the Patron of Peoples Democratic Party, Mufti Muhammad Sayeed has predicted another mass uprising if New Delhi didn’t reduce troops and revoke the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). 

The statement quoting speeches of Mufti at Dooru and Khannabal said that the Working Group constituted by Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh had recommended revocation of the AFSPA. He said that the recommendations reflected the collective will of the people of occupied Kashmir.
 
“People of Kashmir would rise against the continued denial of justice if these recommendations are not implemented,” Mufti said, asking New Delhi to consider the matter seriously.

Mufti said that the PDP wanted the armed forces to go back to the barracks. He said unless AFSPA was revoked and troops didn’t return to barracks, democracy would be without form and meaning in Kashmir.  »

People urged to remain aloof from polls process in IHK

In occupied Kashmir, APHC leader and Chairperson of Muslim Khawateen Markaz, Yasmeen Raja has called upon people to stay away from the ongoing Indian Parliamentary polls.

In a statement issued in Srinagar Yasmeen Raja said that polls were no alternative to right to self-determination for which the people of the occupied territory had rendered countless and unprecedented sacrifices.

Reacting over the illegal detention of APHC leaders and workers, she said that the illegal arrests had exposed the so-called Indian democracy, adding that, on one side, India was claiming to be the biggest democracy of the world and, on the other, it was curbing rights to speech and expression in occupied Kashmir.

Yasmeen Raja said that although the holding of farcical polls in the occupied territory could not change the disputed status of Kashmir but New Delhi presented the polls to the world as an alternative to right to self-determination.

Meanwhile, the General Secretary of Tehreek-e-Hurriyet Jammu and Kashmir, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai has said that India was conducting military operation in the name of holding of elections.

In a statement in Srinagar he said that Indian troops were harassing the people of Kashmir in the garb of holding the sham polls. “The Indian state terrorism couldn’t suppress the liberation movement and the masses would continue their struggle for their birthright of self-determination till its complete success,” he added.   »

People urged to remain aloof from polls process in IHK

Meanwhile, APHC leader and Chairperson of Muslim Khawateen Markaz, Yasmeen Raja has called upon people to stay away from the ongoing Indian Parliamentary polls.

In a statement issued in Srinagar Yasmeen Raja said that polls were no alternative to right to self-determination for which the people of the occupied territory had rendered countless and unprecedented sacrifices.

Reacting over the illegal detention of APHC leaders and workers, she said that the illegal arrests had exposed the so-called Indian democracy, adding that, on one side, India was claiming to be the biggest democracy of the world and, on the other, it was curbing rights to speech and expression in occupied Kashmir.

Yasmeen Raja said that although the holding of farcical polls in the occupied territory could not change the disputed status of Kashmir but New Delhi presented the polls to the world as an alternative to right to self-determination.

Meanwhile, the General Secretary of Tehreek-e-Hurriyet Jammu and Kashmir, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai has said that India was conducting military operation in the name of holding of elections.

In a statement in Srinagar he said that Indian troops were harassing the people of Kashmir in the garb of holding the sham polls. “The Indian state terrorism couldn’t suppress the liberation movement and the masses would continue their struggle for their birthright of self-determination till its complete success,” he added.   »