National News

ISLAMABAD,(APP): All Parties Hurriyet Conference has strongly
reacted against the statement of Indian minister, Ram Vilas Paswan, that Jammu Kashmir is an integral part of India, terming his remarks as traditional and unrealistic.
According to Kashmir Media Service, APHC spokesman, Ayaz Akbar, in a
statement issued in Srinagar said, “This `integral part’ theory of India has
become obsolete now.”
He said, the Kashmiri people can understand the compulsions of Ram Vilas Paswan. “As BJP is very kind to him and has given him a ministerial berth. So in this perspective he has to show some respect to the fanatic thinking of his communal friends otherwise he himself knows that Kashmir is not a legal part of India,” he said.
The spokesman said, every Indian politician knows that India is holding
Kashmir through military might and that Kashmiri people have never accepted
India’s forcible occupation but are actively resisting it for which they have sacrificed lakhs of lives.
Ayaz Akbar also termed the Indian minister’s statement regarding his
meeting with Syed Ali Gilani few years ago as a blatant lie. “In the said
meeting Gilani Sahib explained in detail the causes and reasons for the
creation of Kashmir dispute and its historical perspective. Paswan Sahib
couldn’t disagree any of his word; even he expressed sympathy with the
Kashmiri people at that time,” he added.
Meanwhile, the APHC spokesman also expressed serious concern over the
crackdown unleashed by Indian police against Hurriyet activists and youth in
Kupwara town. He demanded immediate release of all illegally detained people
from the town.