Srinagar: In occupied Kashmir, the joint resistance leadership has appealed to the people to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha with austerity and stage protests after Eid prayers against India’s plans to repeal Articles 370 and 35A, implementation of Goods and Services Tax regime and Uniform Civil Code and character assassination campaign launched by Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA).
The joint resistance leadership comprising Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik, in a statement issued in Srinagar extended Eid greetings to the entire Muslim Ummah in general and people of Jammu and Kashmir in particular.
They appealed to the people of the occupied territory to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha with simplicity and austerity and asked the affluent families to take care of the needy, orphans, widows and families of martyrs on this auspicious occasion. They asked the people to support and second the resolutions being presented by the leadership during Eid prayers.
“The intended tampering with the state subject law is a ploy to change the demography of Jammu and Kashmir and in this way the issue is directly linked to our right of self-determination,†the leaders said.
The resistance leaders also extended Eid greetings to prisoners and prayed for their well-being and saluted them for their steadfastness, persistence and commitment. They said the NIA has detained Hurriyat leaders including Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Altaf Ahmed Shah, Ayaz Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Merajuddin Kalwal, Shahid-ul-Islam, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Farooq Ahmed Dar and Faheem Ahmed in fabricated cases and even basic facilities were not being provided to them.
“Senior JKLF leader Noor Muhammad Kalwal was also summoned by the NIA and implicated in fictitious cases while as Dr Nayeem Gilani and Dr Naseem Gilani were released and asked to attend NIA’s Delhi office on next date after Eid,†the leaders said. “The NIA is being used as a tool to harass pro-freedom leadership and destroy the economy and as such businessman, Zahoor Ahmed Watali, too was arrested and being interrogated in New Delhi,†they added.
Slamming the Indian authorities for their haughty approach towards prisoners particularly Dukhtaran-e-Millat Chairperson Aasiya Andrabi, the leaders said, “Despite court orders, ailing Aasiya Andrabi is not being released. It is sheer lawlessness that despite court orders, she was rearrested, ignoring all ethics and morals.
