ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT/APP): Chairman of All Parties
Hurriyet Conference, Syed Ali Gilani in Indian occupied Kashmir,
while lashing out at India for civilian killings has said that
Indian forces are involved in serious war crimes in the territory.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Syed Ali Gilani in a
statement issued in held Srinagar strongly criticized the forces for
killing civilians including Ashiq Reshi and Mushtaq Ahmed Itoo and
injuring scores of people in indiscriminate firing at Frisal in
Kulgam district.
He said that opening fire on unarmed people and making
civilians as shield shows the height of state terrorism.
“Nobody asks them, nor they feel accountable for their
crimes,” Gilani said.
He rejected the Indian propaganda that people’s uprising in
the Valley is foreign-sponsored, and said that the charge was
unfounded.
Blaming Indian forces for increasing deteriorating situation
in the territory, Gilani said “Forces are using brute and un-
proportionate force against unarmed civilians and taking revenge
from innocent citizens”.
Killing Ashiq Rishi, Mushtaq Ahmad too and injuring scores
of unarmed civilians are clear instances that Indian forces have
declared a war against innocent citizens, he added.
Reacting to the statement of a puppet minister wherein he
has called for an inquiry into the Kulgam episode, Syed Ali Gilani
said, “It is just mockery and simply eyewash. They are not sincere
and it is their ploy to cool down the public resentment.”
“They are enjoying the impunity under draconian Armed Forces
Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and it provides them a license to kill
anybody according to their free will,” he said, and asked for
investigation of such events by the international agencies.
Suggesting the Indian rulers to read writing on the wall,
the octogenarian leader said Kashmiri people are striving for
right to self-determination for the past seven decades and it is
ridiculous to blame Pakistan for so-called inter border
insurgency.