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Muzaffarabad: Pasban-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir has appealed the Prime Minister of Pakistan, the Foreign Minister and international human rights organizations play their role for the release of Kashmiri prisoners who have faced imprisonments for more than 2 decades.
In a statement issued here on Saturday, Chairman Pasban-e-Hurriyat Uzair Ahmad Ghazali said that Pirzada Muhammad Ashraf, Dr. Ashiq Hussain, Dr. Muhammad Qasim Faktu who were imprisoned in Indian jails for the past 26 years, while dozens of Kashmiri citizens have been in jails for more than 20 years.
While expressing grief and sorrow over the plight of Kashmiri prisoners Uzair said that the Indian government has forcibly booked many Kashmiri citizens who raised their voice for right to self-determination which is legitimate according to UN resolutions.
He revealed the number of years about various Kashmiri citizens who have been in Indian jails, saying that Muhammad Ayub Khan imprisoned for the last 24, Ghulam Qadir for 24, Abdul Ghani for 23, Javed Ahmed Khan for 22, Ali Muhammad Butt for 22, Abdul Latif Waza for 22, Mirza Basharat Hussain for 22, Muhammad Ayub Dar for 18, Muhammad Nazir Shaikh for 18, Ghulam Muhammad Butt for 17, Muhammad Siddique Gujjar for 17, Muhammad Feroze Khan for 16, Pervez Ahmad Mir for 16, Barkat Ali Khan for 16, Sain Gujjar for 16, Muhammad Iqbal Khan for 16, Mehendia Chaudhry for 16 years, Abdul Hameed Teli for 13, Aslam Gujjar for 13, Dr. Shafi Khan for 13, Bilal Kota for 13 years, and Muhammad Maqsood Butt, Shaukat Khan, Farooq Sheikh, Abbas Wani, Muzaffar Dar, Aslam Wani, Muhammad Shafi Shah, Dr. Waseem and many other citizens have been incarcerated in Indian jails for more than 10 years.
Vice Chairman Pasban-e-Hurriyat Usman Ali Hashim said that many Kashmiri prisoners have not been released despite completion of their court sentences.
“Many prisoners were not being released despite many appeals, pleas to Indian courts by the Kashmiri prisoners and their families”, he added.
The families of these oppressed and helpless prisoners are suffering from torture and severe anguish due to the confinement of their loved ones in prisons.
The leaders of Pasban-e-Hurriyat appealed to the organizations working for the rights of prisoners at the international level to put pressure on the Indian government to release the Kashmiri prisoners imprisoned in Indian jails.
They also demanded the government of Pakistan that Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari should talk to Indian government for the immediate release of all Kashmiri prisoners.
The leaders said that India can never succeed in making the people of Kashmir withdraw their demand for freedom through coercion and violence.
They reiterated that Kashmiri people know that they have no future in the world without freedom from Indian occupation and they will continue to resist against the Indian illegal occupation.
