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ISLAMABAD, (APP): The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet
Conference, Syed Ali Gilani, and Hurriyet leaders, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and
Muhammad Yasin Malik in occupied Kashmir have strongly denounced the puppet
authorities for imposing curbs on resistance leaders for barring them from
carrying out their peaceful political activities.
The puppet authorities had imposed restrictions and detained almost
entire Hurriyet leadership to prevent a sit-in protest at Lal Chowk in
Srinagar on Wednesday, Kashmir Media Service reported.
Call for holding of the sit-in protest was jointly given by Syed Ali
Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik to protest against
construction of separate townships for Kashmir Pandits, colonies for Indian
soldiers, harassment of Jammu Muslims and India’s new industrial policy in
Kashmir.
Syed Ali Gilani, who is under house arrest in Srinagar, in a statement
condemning the authorities’ action said that the pro-India party PDP had
swallowed its `battle of ideas’ and `Goli nahi boli’ slogans.
“This party has come up with a dangerous face in Kashmir. Besides, using its entire force to suppress its opponents particularly the pro-freedom camp, this party is also misusing the state machinery to its fullest to block any voice raised against its anti-Kashmir policies,” he said.
The APHC Chairman cautioned the puppet Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti,
and her colleagues that crackdown on Hurriyet leadership would have serious
consequences and they too would not escape from those situations.
He said, these people (PDP members) have made Kashmiris an easy target
of RSS and have left the entire territory on the mercy of these fanatic
communal forces.
Syed Ali Gilani warned that if the concept of soldier colonies and
Pandit townships was not abandoned, the joint protest programme of the pro-
freedom leadership would continue.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who is also under house arrest in Srinagar, in a
statement deplored that the PDP-BJP regime under its anti-Kashmir policies was adopting dictatorial policies and using excessive force for crushing the
resistance leadership.
He pointed out that Kashmir was not a law and order problem and the
ground realities could not be changed through oppressive and suppressive
policies.
He said that brutal tactics could not force the Hurriyet leadership to
give up its stand on the Kashmir dispute.
Muhammad Yasin Malik, who is illegally detained in a police station in
Srinagar, termed the use of force and placing of Hurriyet leaders and
activists under house arrest and in illegal detentions as the worst example of state militants.