Islamabad: (Parliament Times) Voicing serious concern over the deteriorating health condition of DFP president Shabir Ahmed Shah in New Delhi’s Tihar jail the Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Raja Farooq Haider Khan has said that the international community must take effective cognizance of what he called the illegal detention of Shah and threat to his life in Indian prison.
“The world human rights organizations must understand and realize the dangers faced by Shabir Shah in the jail and take necessary measures to ensure full protection and early release of the ailing leader”, the AJK premier said this while talking to APHC convener Syed Faiz Naqashbandi and former APHC convener Mehmood Ahmed Saghar who called on him here on Wednesday.
Speaking on the occasion Raja Farooq Haider Khan said that Shabir Shah and other Hurriyat leaders in Indian held Kashmir were being subjected to systematic persecution for spearheading the ongoing struggle for right to self-determination. Appreciating DFP chief’s peerless contribution and indomitable role in the ongoing struggle for right to self-determination Khan said that Shah has spent a major portion of his life (31 years) in different jails and interrogation centers for advocating the cause of Kashmir. Paying eulogizing tributes to his decades’ long peaceful political struggle for the resolution of Kashmir dispute the premier stated that Shah’s undying spirit, passion and perseverance was a great source of inspirations for young Kashmiris.
Referring to use of brute force by Indian occupation forces in Kashmir Khan observed that New Delhi cannot suppress the ongoing freedom struggle by killing innocent, unarmed and defenseless Kashmiris or by caging Hurriyat leaders. He also denounced in strong terms the frequent arrests and house detention of pro-freedom leaders such as Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Dr.Umer Farooq, Muhammad Yasin Malik and others.
Meanwhile, the APHC leaders briefed the AJK Prime Minister about the prevailing political and human rights situation in Kashmir. About the recent spate of violence in the valley they said that Indian had crossed all limits of barbarism and savagery by killing innocent civilians.
