Srinagar: In occupied Kashmir, APHC General Secretary and the Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (DFP), Shabbir Ahmed Shah, has said that his party will launch an awareness campaign across India to inform its people about the Kashmir dispute nature of Jammu and Kashmir.
Shabbir Ahmed Shah talking to mediamen in Srinagar said, “We have decided to launch an awareness campaign regarding our just stand and political thought across India. We will get in contact with Indian intellectuals and try to garner their support as we hope there are thousands of justice-loving people in that country who will raise their voices in our favour.†He said, sooner or later India will have to shun its ego to resolve the Kashmir dispute that has long been the biggest impediment in its way of achieving overall progress.
Shabbir Shah said, part of the proposed awareness campaign would be organising a press conference in New Delhi, where he would stress upon India and Pakistan to resolve their differences arising out of unresolved Kashmir dispute. “During the presser, I will pose some questions to Indian prime minister and see how he will convince me on his rhetorical stand on Kashmir dispute. It has been our age-old stand that unresolved Kashmir poses a big threat to South Asia and is hindering peace in the region,†he said.
The APHC leader also dared Modi to lift curbs on the movement of Hurriyet leadership and see whose side the people of Jammu and Kashmir are. “Let India choose its candidate in the elections, we will choose any lesser-known person but under the auspices of any international impartial body. People’s verdict would be acceptable to all. That will be the final verdict of this dispute,†he said. He however added, “I also want to make it clear that whenever we talk of referendum in Jammu and Kashmir, we mean the entire population of Jammu and Kashmir. People from all faiths and regions are entitled to this right of self-determination.â€
Urging the world human rights organizations to take notice of firing along the Line of Control, Shabbir Shah said that the resistance leaders were concerned about the loss of human lives, mostly innocent civilians and school going children, due to unabated firing at the LoC. “We recently saw how firing by Indian forces martyred several children in Azad Kashmir. A school van was targeted. This is extremely unfortunate and human rights bodies should take serious cognizance of these incidents,†he added.