Keeping in view the grave situation in Jammu Kashmir, the chairman of Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) Shabir Ahmad Shah has appealed the justice-loving nations, organisations, and leaders to come to rescue of the people of the State who are being butchered by the Indian occupational forces.
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Shortly after he joined Hizbul Mujahideen, then a deflated band of rebels on the run from Indian forces, and eventually became the iconic face of Kashmir’s militancy, using social media to rally supporters and reach out to others who had grown up like him in the militarized and job-scarce region.
The Valley has been on edge since the killing top Hizb commander Burhan Wani along with his two associates on Friday evening in South Kashmir.
His comments come in the backdrop of Pakistan raising in the United Nations the issue of the killing of militant commander Burhan Wani.
“We encourage all sides to make efforts towards finding a peaceful resolution”, said the US State Department spokesperson in Washington while responding to reports of clashes between Kashmiri protestors and the Indian forces. Tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have died in the fighting since 1989.
The uprising of 2008 in the region was the result of Governor SK giving a large tract of land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) sparking unrest that led to hundreds of deaths and distrust between the people of Kashmir and Jammu. She said that a poll according to the Security Council’s resolution was the only way forward in finding the solution to the Kashmir dispute.
Earlier at a high-level UN General Assembly (UNGA) debate on “Human Rights at the Centre of the Global Agenda”, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative Maleeha Lodhi accused India of human rights violations in Kashmir and of carrying out an “extra-judicial killing of a person” she described as a “Kashmiri leader”.
In an interview, Adviser to Pakistan Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz has said, “India can not suppress the voice of Kashmiris, who are struggling for their just right of self-determination, by using brutal force and committing human rights violations in Kashmir”.
“It is obligatory on us to fight their case morally, diplomatically and politically”, he said and added, “if democracy means rights of the people, then what kind of democracy India has and how can it declare itself the biggest democracy when it is usurping rights of innocent Kashmiri people”.
A statement from the PM’s Camp Office said matters of national significance were discussed during the meeting.
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He said global conscience should understand that rights of Muslims are the same as of the non-Muslims.
