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ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT+APP): APHC General Secretary and the
Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (DFP),
Shabbir Ahmad Shah has said that the people of Jammu and Kashmir
are struggling to achieve the right to self-determination,
promised and acknowledged by the world community including India.
According to KMS, Shabbir Ahmad Shah said this while talking
to an Indian delegation that called on him, yesterday.
The delegation comprised prominent Indian intellectual,
social worker and former member of Rajya Sabha, Kamal Morarka, and
journalist, Santosh Bhartiya.
During the meeting, the participants while terming the
prevailing situation in the Kashmir Valley as gruesome
acknowledged the need for finding a just solution to the Kashmir
dispute, said a statement issued by the DFP.
“Shabbir Ahmad Shah apprised the delegation of the use of
worst form of oppression against the people of Kashmir by those
harbouring a particular ideological mindset. He gave them an
account of the victims of pellet firing and those who were maimed
and lost their eyes,” the statement added.
“Even if properties worth billions are destroyed in India
during some protest, not even lathi is used against the dissenters
but in Jammu and Kashmir, the dissent is silenced by bullets and
pellets; people are butchered mercilessly. Those weapons are used
which are banned by the world community,” Shabbir Shah told the
delegation according to the statement.
He said, “India is projecting the situation in Jammu and
Kashmir as mere law and order problem and is suppressing the
people through military might. Our fight is not against the people
of India but we simply demand our right to self-determination
which has been acknowledged by the international community.” The
DFP Chairman told the team that if India wants to progress, it has
to resolve the long-standing dispute of Kashmir as per the UN
resolutions.
“India’s stubbornness in resolving the Kashmir issue is the
reason for political uncertainty in the South Asian region,” he
said.