Srinagar : In occupied Kashmir, the Mirwaiz-led forum has said that south Asia would continue to remain elusive until Kashmir dispute is resolved in accordance with the United Nations resolutions.
This was asserted at the joint meeting of Executive Council, General Council and Working Committee meeting of Hurriyet forum Executive Council at Rajbagh in Srinagar. The meeting was presided over by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. The participants asked for talks between all the three stakeholders of the Kashmir dispute comprising Pakistan, India and the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Asserting that Kashmir was not an issue of law and order but a political issue involving the political future of the people of J&K, the meeting stated that it was in the larger interest of the people of entire South Asia to address and resolve this issue in order to take out billions of people of this region out of political uncertainty and towards a bright future.
The meeting was attended by Maulana Abbas Ansari, Professor Abdul Ghani Butt, Bilal Ghani Lone and Mukhtar Ahmad Waza. The leadership decided to continue the discussion in this regard.
The meeting observed that the rulers of India and their local collaborators in order to push the pro-freedom leaders and the people of Kashmir towards wall, had adopted oppressive polices and tactics against them. “The people are being put behind bars, the arrest of youth is going on at a large scale and often use of notorious pellet guns continues against Kashmiris,†it said.
It said, “The use of coercion and suppression has not succeeded to make Kashmiris submit in the past nor is it ever going to succeed in dampening the freedom spirit of the resistance leaders and its people.â€
Expressing serious concern over the illegal detention of thousands of Kashmiri political prisoners languishing in different jails and police stations in and outside Kashmir, it was described as the worst policy of political vendetta. The meeting demanded immediate release of all such political prisoners.
Others who attended the meeting included Advocate Abdul Majid Banday, Javaid Ahmad Mir, Engineer Hilal Ahmad War, Abdul Mannan Bukhari, Ghulam Nabi Zaki, Khaleel Muhammad Khaleel, Abdul Majeed Wani, Syed Muzaffar Rizvi, Abdul Rashid Untoo, Jafar Kashmiri, Farooq Ahmad Mamoosi, Ghulam Nabi Najar, Engineer Fayaz and Ghulam Hassan Mir.