Month: October 2021

Amritsar, October 31, 2021 (PPI-OT):Deputy Chief Minister of Indian state of Punjab, Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, who also holds the home portfolio, has called upon Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to open Kartapur Corridor for Sikh visitors.

Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa addressing a function said that the Kartarpur corridor remains closed since March 2020. He asked Modi to arrive in the Punjab state and give the opening of the corridor as a gift to the Sikhs.

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Srinagar, October 31, 2021 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, APHC leader and the Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Political Movement, Khawaja Firdous has condemned the slapping of draconian Public Safety Act (PSA) on party’s General Secretary, Pir Hilal Ahmed and shifting him to infamous Kot Bhalwal jail in Jammu.

Khawaja Federal in a statement issued in Srinagar said that the authorities had arrested Pir Hilal Ahmed without any justification as they were using all tactics to suppress the Kashmiris’ indigenous freedom movement. He deplored that Pir Hilal Ahmed was tortured after the arrest and had been shifted to Kot Bhalwal jail, Jammu which was deplorable. He added that the health of Pir Hilal Ahmed was not good and he was not allowed to meet with his family members, which was the worst kind of human rights violation.

The Hurriyat leader said that Kashmiri people were not afraid of such tactics of India and they would continue their peaceful struggle for their right to self-determination till taking it to its logical conclusion. Khawaja Firdous said that India should know that for the past seven decades, it could neither suppress the Kashmiris nor won their hearts. He said that the Kashmiri people never recognized India, which was also proved during the Pak-India cricket match last week.

Khawaja Firdous appealed to the world community and human rights organizations to help stop illegal arrests and release all the illegally detained Kashmiri political leaders. He said that settlement of the Kashmir dispute, according to the UN resolutions and aspirations of the Kashmiri people, was imperative for sustainable peace in South Asia.

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Srinagar, October 31, 2021 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, India’s infamous probe agency, National Investigation Agency (NIA), has arrested two more persons from Srinagar and Sopore. The arrested persons are Ishfaq Ahmed Wani, resident of Srinagar, and Umar Butt, resident of Sopore, who were held in a fake case registered against them on October 10, 2021.

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Srinagar, October 31, 2021 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has expressed grave concern over the deteriorating situation in the territory where normal human life has become highly vulnerable to the Indian forces.

The APHC spokesman in statement issued in Srinagar strongly condemned the use of brute force against the people belonging to all walks of life, including employees, students, journalists, labourers and businessmen and reiterated the unwavering commitment of the freedom-loving people of Kashmir to take the ongoing resistance movement to its logical conclusion.

Freedom from forcible and illegal occupation of India is the only priority of the freedom-loving people of Kashmir, so the question of any surrender before Indian military might does not arise at all, affirmed the spokesman. Terming the prevailing situation in the territory as most critical, he said the Indian forces have let loose a reign of terror in the nook and corner of the territory and despite the presence of one million Indian forces, patrolling in and around the dwellings, the brave people of Kashmir dare to challenge their brutalities with their open chests.

The spokesman said, people have rendered unprecedented sacrifices for their inalienable right to self-determination since the Indian illegal military occupation in 1947 and their heart-wrenching sufferings at the hands of forces continue as before. The APHC spokesman urged the United Nations to take serious measures to fulfill the commitments of resolving Kashmir dispute in accordance with its own resolutions and allow people of Kashmir to exercise their right to self- determination as per their aspirations.

While expressing deep concern over the widespread genocide and the worst kind of human rights abuses perpetrated by the Indian forces in IIOJK, said it is the moral and legal obligations of the United Nations to stop genocide of the freedom-loving people of Kashmir and put pressure on India to honour the human values and rights as guaranteed by the Human Rights Charter of 1948.

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Muzaffarabad, October 31, 2021 (PPI-OT):The Chairman of Pasban-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir, Uzair Ahmad Ghazali has strongly condemned the criminal actions of Hindu terrorist groups against Muslims in the Indian State, Tripura.

Uzair Ahmad Ghazali in a statement in Muzaffarabad said that the Bharatiya Janata Party had sowed seeds against Islam in India and today, Muslims are facing organized terrorism in India. He added that burning mosques, madaris, Muslim settlements and business centres in Tripura was the worst kind of terrorism.

Ghazali expressed his sympathy with the millions of Muslims of Tripura, saying that the global human rights organizations should immediately ban Hindu extremist terrorist groups in India and urge the government to protect the life, honour and property of Muslims in India.

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Islamabad, October 31, 2021 (PPI-OT):A meeting of the leaders of Jammu Kashmir Freedom Movement Forum was held in Islamabad, today, with former APHC-AJK chapter Convener, Muhammad Hussein Khateeb in chair. The leaders included Vice Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Pir Panjal Peace Foundation, Mahmood Akhtar Qureshi Advocate, Convener of Jammu and Kashmir Pir Panjal Civil Society, Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar and Convener of Jammu and Kashmir Pir Panjal Peoples Movement, Muhammad Latif Lone.

The forum leaders from Indian illegally occupied Kashmir, including Muhammad Sharif Sartaj from Jammu, Muhammad Hanif Kalas from Poonch, Maulana Ameer Muhammad Shamsi from Rajouri, Maulana Abdul Qayoom Matoo from Kishtwar, Malik Irshad Ahmad from Doda, Pervez Ahmad Sheikh from Bhaderwah and Advocate Khawaja Ejaz Madni from Surankote participated via phone.

The participants of the meeting discussed the rapidly changing situation in IIOJK and expressed concern over the killing and arrest of innocent Kashmiris by Indian troops and demanded immediate release of all illegally detained Hurriyat leaders and activists languishing in different jails of India and the territory.

They also denounced the authorities for martyring a civilian, Zia Mustafa of Rawalakot, AJK, in a fake encounter. Zia Mustafa, a resident of Rawalakot, AJK, they added, had been lodged in Jammu’s Kot Bhalwal jail for the last 18 years and was taken to Bhatta Durrian area of Poonch district where the troops martyred him during a so-called cordon and search operation. The Hurriyat leaders condemned the arrest of Kashmiri students by the UP police for celebrating Pakistan’s victory in cricket match over India in Dubai and demanded their immediate release.

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Islamabad, October 31, 2021 (PPI-OT):Khalistan movement is a Sikh movement seeking to create an independent homeland for Sikhs by establishing a sovereign state in Indian Punjab region. A report released by Kashmir Media Service, today, said Khalistan movement continues to inspire Sikhs in India and across the world to strive for an independent homeland.

It said the movement gained momentum in the aftermath of systematic discrimination against the Sikh community in India, adding Sikhs will not rest until they achieve a separate Khalistan. It said, Sikhs’ fight against India is actually a war against Hindutva hegemony. Sikhs are brave people and they will not let Modi’s hegemonic designs to succeed, it maintained.

The report said, Indian security establishment is deeply worried as the Khalistan idea is generating deep interest among Sikhs worldwide. The call for a separate Sikh state began in the wake of the fall of the British Empire, it said and added that creation of separate homeland in the name of Khalistan is the dream of every Sikh.

The report said, the ‘Sikhs for Justice’, a US-based organization, supports the secession of Punjab from India for the creation of Khalistan and it has released a new map of India showing not just Punjab but Haryana and Himachal Pradesh as part of Khalistan.

Now, the report said, the ‘Sikhs For Justice’ has started a campaign for the secession of Punjab state from India and is planning to hold referendum seeking separate homeland for the Sikh community. It said, Sikhs have been facing organized persecution and continued exploitation at the hands of successive Indian governments.

The report said right to self-determination is an inalienable right of all the people and that Sikhs clearly qualify for this right. The world community must break its silence on the oppression of Sikhs in India, it maintained.

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