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ISLAMABAD, Jul 4 (APP): The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat
Conference, Syed Ali Gilani, has expressed deep concern over the
killing of 120 Kashmiris by Indian troops during the past six
months in the territory.
Syed Ali Gilani in a statement issued in Srinagar said
haughty and stubborn attitude of Indian authorities on the Kashmir
dispute was the prime cause of continued bloodshed in the occupied
territory, KMS reported.
He said, for the last 28 years we are facing awful
situations and killing spree with the result that thousands of
families were shattered.
The APHC Chairman said that the people of Kashmir were
peace-loving and with their human heart were always ready to help
those in distress.
He said that the Kashmiris through peaceful means pursued
their rightful freedom struggle under the banner of Plebiscite
Front and Muslim United Front.
“However, authorities in Delhi never made any serious effort
to redress grievances of the Kashmiri people or fulfill the pledge
made with them,” he added.
Referring to 2008 and 2010 uprisings, Syed Ali Gilani said
people in order to press for their demands took to streets and
staged peaceful protests to impress upon the Indian authorities
and the international community to settle the Kashmir dispute but
were responded with brute force.
He said that it was Delhi’s arrogant and stubborn approach
that was giving rise to uncertainty and multiplying human
tragedies in the territory. “Political space is being choked and
freedom of speech denied. Authorities are executing their age-old
practice of detentions and intimidations. Every coercive action
has its implications and likely reactions are expected as it is a
law of nature.”
On the US administration’s action of declaring the United
Jihad Council Chief, Syed Salaahuddin, as terrorist, the APHC
Chairman said that looking back at Syed Salaahuddin’s thirty-year-
long period of peaceful political career, it is quite evident that
he is not a terrorist but a prominent politician who has a record
of contesting election as a candidate for the Muslim United Front.
He said that Syed Salaahuddin opted for other means after
being denied the political space.