Altaf Hamid Rao.
MIRPUR (AJK), (Parliament Times) : In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, illustrious APHC (All Parties Hurriyat Conference) leader and Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir Chairman Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai has died in Indian custody in occupied Jammu after a brief illness.on Wednesday, says a report reaching here Wednesday from across the line of control (LoC).
The 80 years old elderly senior Kashmiri hurriyat leader Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai was facing detention under Public safety Act (PSA) passed away after a brief illness at GMC in occupied Jammu the report said.
“It is believed that elderly Kashmir freedom struggle leader was poisoned by the occupational authorities in jail. Relatives of other Kashmiri detainees have also expressed apprehensions that they are being poisoned, the report revealed.
The report continued Hurriyat chairman Ashraf Sehrai who was admitted at GMC in Jammu on Tuesday after his health started deteriorating at Kot Bhalwal jail, where he was facing detention under Public Safety Act (PSA) breathed his last this afternoon.
In July 2020 the illustrious Kashmir freedom struggle leader Ashraf Sehrai was arrested by Indian occupational forces from his residence in occupied Srinagar and was lodged at Udhampur Jail.
Ashraf Sehrai was elected as the Chairman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat, a constituent of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, which was previously headed by the world-fame distinguished elderly Kashmir freedom struggle supremo Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
Booked under draconian Public Safety Act, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai was on July 12, 2020 shifted to Udhampur Jail in Jammu. His condition fell deteriorated in the jail and he was shifted, on Tuesday, to a hospital in Jammu where he died.
Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai was suffering from multiple diseases and was not provided with any treatment during his incarceration. His family members were kept unaware of his health condition..
He all along his life worked as a lieutenant of Syed Ali Gilani, and was a member of Jamaat-e-Islami in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu Kashmir State.
Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai was a hardcore freedom fighter and had allowed his son Junaid Sehrai to join the ranks of armed struggle. Junaid was martyred on May 19, 2020 in Srinagar.
Jammu Kashmir National Conference (JKNF) here on Wednesday expressed its deep sense of shock and grief over the death of Muhammad Ashraf Sahraie.
JKNF central vice chairman and senior Hurriyat leader Altaf Hussain Wani said in his condolence statement issued here on Wednesday that the distinguished seasoned Kashmiri Hurriyat leader Ashraf Sehrai was a visionary and ideologically strong political leader. “He never compromised on his principles”, he said and added that his death has caused a tremendous loss of the Kashmir freedom struggle”,
Wani said that his mission will be accomplished till the Kashmir freedom struggle reached to its logical end.
The JKNF leader called for early release all Kashmiri political leaders languishing arbitrarily in different Indian as well as IIOJK jails who are being deprived of the proper medical facilities.
