ISLAMABAD,(MILLAT+APP): Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet
Conference Syed Ali Gilani, has hailed the resolve and resilience
of illegally detained senior Hurriyet leader and the Jammu and
Kashmir Muslim League Chief, Masarrat Aalam Butt.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Syed Ali Gilani in a
statement in Srinagar welcomed the court verdict to quash the
detention of Masarrat Aalam Butt under draconian law, Public
Safety Act (PSA).
However, he expressed his apprehension that fate of this
revocation may not be different from similar orders given in the
past, as the authorities must have prepared another dossier to
clip the wings before he even tries to fly off.
The APHC Chairman said, in case anybody defies the court
order, he is liable to face the contempt proceedings, but the
puppet administration very brazenly and shamelessly refute and
rebuke their own court decisions repeatedly and so-called powerful
and authoritative judiciary seems to be more than helpless to
yield to the pressure of the authorities.
Hailing the resolve, determination and resilience of
Masarrat Aalam Butt, whose incarceration of more than 17 years has
failed to dent him, the APHC Chairman said that the Kashmiris like
Masarrat Aalam could never be defeated in their sacred mission.
He said that the JKML Chief continued to be in jail since
2010, although late Mufti Muhammad Syed dared to release him as a
“good will gesture” of his new puppet regime in March 2015. But,
he said, Mufti Sayeed an Indian by conviction – succumbed to the
pressure of jingoistic and hyper Indian nationalist media and
within the short period of a month, he again put Masarrat Aalam
behind bars, thereby saving his administration and also satisfying
the collective conscience of Indian media houses.
Syed Ali Gilani further said that like Masarrat Aalam there
were thousands of Kashmiris who willfully and consciously spared
the precious movements of their life for the betterment and noble
cause of their people.
“Unparallel sacrifices by these enthusiastic and dedicated
souls, deserve our applause and recognition and we can’t shoulder
off our responsibility by mere press statements,” he said.