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ISLAMABAD, (MIOLLAT+APP): Hurriyet forum led by Mirwaiz Umar
Farooq has expressed serious concern over the condition of a large
number of political leaders, activists and freedom-loving youth
languishing in various prisons and condemned the jail authorities
for meting out inhuman treatment to the detainees.
According to KMS, the forum spokesman in a statement issued in Srinagar
said that the detainees were not being provided medical treatment and
the quality of food and edibles was also poor.
He said, complaints are being received from the family
members that when they reach the jails to meet their loved ones
after travelling hundreds of kilometers, the authorities create
hurdles and cite different excuses for disallowing their meeting
with the inmates.
The spokesman said that such practices ware a violation of
Jail Manual and Geneva Conventions and urged the world human
rights bodies to intervene and help provide proper facilities to
the political detainees in the occupied territory.
The spokesman also denounced the continued house arrest of
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Syed Ali Gilani and other resistance leaders.
He said that the atrocities committed by India forces were
at their peak and people in Zaloora, Wadoora, Kreeri, Pattan,
Bandipora, Bijbehara and other areas were at the receiving end
while youth were being arrested arbitrarily.
Meanwhile, the forum leader, Mukhtar Ahmad Waza, who is
under house detention from last over four months, in a statement
issued in Srinagar said that result-oriented dialogue process was
imperative to resolve the Kashmir dispute to bring sustainable
peace in South Asia.
He also hailed the efforts of Pakistani government for
resolution of the Kashmir dispute.
He said that Pakistan’s assertion of resolving the dispute
through dialogue was encouraging.
“India has to shun its stagnant Kashmir policy if it wants
resolution of this decades-old problem through peaceful means,”
Mukhtar Waza said, adding, dialogue is the only way forward.
He pointed out that escalation on borders and the Line of
Control (LoC) could prove disastrous for the entire region.