Srinagar, August 27, 2010: APHC(G) Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani has said that holding talks with India will be a futile exercise until it accepts the disputed nature of Jammu and Kashmir, starts demilitarisation, revokes black laws and releases all Kashmiri political prisoners without any condition.
Syed Ali Gilani, who was addressing a public gathering at Gulshanabad in Hyderpora said, "We were never against talks. But when, on the one hand, there are talks about talks and, on the other, Kashmir is declared as an integral part, there remains nothing meaningful about the dialogue. Holding of talks will be a futile exercise until India gives up its stubbornness, proclaims Kashmir as a dispute, starts the process of demilitarisation, revokes all the draconian laws and releases all the detainees unconditionally."
Syed Ali Gilani condemned the torturing to death of an innocent student, Umar Qayoom by Indian forces. He said that cruel and callous attitude of police towards people would not be tolerated. He said that Kashmiris' liberation struggle was absolutely peaceful and indigenous. "Those protesting on roads do not carry any gun, grenade or other weapon. They are not being paid by anyone. The Indian agencies are using underhand tactics to malign our movement," he said.
Surprised over the closure of Srinagar Airport from September 1, Syed Ali Gilani termed it torture to Kashmiris. "It can be tactic to keep the prevailing grim situation away from the view of outside world," he added.
Syed Ali Gilani maintained that all the minorities including Sikhs are safe in Kashmir. He appealed to the Muslims to assure the minorities in their respective localities that they were safe and secure.
APHC(M) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq demanded India to withdraw its troops from Occupied State of Jammu & Kashmir. He also urged India to stop state terrorism in the occupied territory and take steps to settle the Kashmir dispute by holding talks with Pakistan and genuine Kashmiri leadership.
Syed Ali Gilani led a big protest in Hyderpora and while addressing a gathering on the occasion, pointed out that the people of Jammu & Kashmir had been rendering sacrifices to secure their inalienable right of self-determination and not for perks and privileges.
Other APHC leaders, Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi, addressing protesters in Badgam and Ghulam Ahmed Mir in Thanamandi emphasised that India would not be able to subdue Kashmiris' movement through force. Anti-India demonstrations were also staged at Lal Chowk, Soura, Buchpora and Residency Road in Srinagar and in Islamabad, Bijbehara, Sangam, Pulwama, Tral and other towns. Liberation leaders addressing the demonstrators urged India to show seriousness in resolving the dispute in accordance with the Kashmiris' aspirations.
Illegally detained senior APHC leader, Shabbir Ahmad Shah talking to mediamen at a hospital in Jammu said that the present surge in the liberation struggle had unnerved Indian authorities, who were engaged in a genocidal spree in the occupied territory. The authorities had brought him there for medical check-up.
The Executive Director of Kashmir Centre London, Professor Nazir Ahmad Shawl, in a statement in Islamabad said that resolution of the Kashmir dispute was vital to the peace and stability in South Asia. Kashmiri intellectual and lecturer in Delhi University, Syed Abdur Rehman Gilani in a media interview in Bangalore said that the people of Jammu and Kashmir should be given an opportunity to decide their future.
On the other hand, the 43rd death anniversary of prominent Kashmiri liberation leader and religious scholar, Mirwaiz Muhammad Yousaf Shah will be observed, tomorrow, and special functions will be held on the occasion on both sides of the Line of Control.
The Executive Director of Kashmir Centre London, Professor Nazir Ahmad Shawl, has said that resolution of the Kashmir dispute is vital to the peace and stability in South Asia. Professor Nazir Ahmad Shawl said that the Kashmir is an internationally recognized dispute. "The resolution of the lingering dispute in accordance with the aspirations of Kashmiri people will restore a new era in the inter-state relations in South Asia," he added.
He said that India should concede the existing ground realities and respond to the categorical message of the ongoing movement in the occupied territory. "The dispute should be resolved according to the internationally supervised referendum as promised by the United Nations Security Council," he maintained.
In Srinagar, at least 40 persons were injured when Indian forces resorted to brute force in Soura area of Srinagar to disperse the demonstrators protesting against the civilian killings and crackdown on youth.
Doctors at the Soura Medical Institute told mediamen that the Institute received 38 persons with pellet injuries. They said that one of the inured, identified as Khalid, 20, had received multiple pellet injuries in abdomen and chest. Another injured person from Rambagh was admitted in the Institute.
The protesters, mainly young boys, demanded the release of the arrested youth. The Indian forces used batons, fired teargas shells and rubber bullets to disperse them. A youth namely Nayeem Ahmad Paul was hit by a rubber bullet and shifted to a hospital.
In Rainawari, protests broke out at Naidyar after a youth was picked up by Indian forces. After the incident, people took to the streets and staged protests demanding his release. The Indian forces used brute force to disperse the protesters. The locals said that the occupation forces damaged private properties and smashed the windowpanes of residential houses in Dalkawpora, Naidyar and Chowdhary Bagh localities.
People also held anti-India demonstrations in Umarabad, Zainakote, Natipora, Rambagh, Wanbal, Sopore, Baramulla and Palhalan, Langate, Kralgund, Kralpora, Trehgam, Shopian, Bijbehara, Islamabad, Pulwama and Kulgam areas. Hundreds of people including women and children in Khaipora area of Tangmarg staged demonstrations against the brutal murder of a teenage girl, Sameera Bhat, who went missing last Monday and later her body with countless injury marks was recovered from an isolated field.
On the other hand, the Indian forces thrashed the newspaper hawkers in Soura, Gulab Bagh and Pandach areas of Srinagar and seized the copies of two local dailies 'Greater Kashmir' and 'Kashmir Uzma' on Thursday. The hawkers received multiple injuries and were taken to hospital for treatment.
Meanwhile, China has refused visa to a serving Indian army general, B. S. Jaswal, on the ground that he is the incharge of the Indian forces in Occupied State of Jammu & Kashmir. China has been describing Jammu and Kashmir as a disputed territory.
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