Islamabad,
July 13, 2019 (PPI-OT): The All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and
Kashmir (APHC-AJK) chapter held a conference in Islamabad, today, to pay
tributes to the Kashmiri martyrs of July 13, 1931 on their martyrdom
anniversary. Twenty-two Kashmiris were martyred, one after the other, outside Central
Jail in Srinagar on July 13, 1931, by the troops of Dogra Maharaja during the
court proceedings against one Abdul Qadeer who had asked the Kashmiri people to
defy the Dogra rule.
Addressing
the conference, the speakers termed the 13th July 1931 as an important
milestone. They said that the sacrifices being rendered by the Kashmiri people
were the continuation of the mission of the martyrs of the July 13, 1931. The
participants of the conference reaffirmed the Kashmiris’ resolve to render all
kinds of sacrifice for the Kashmir cause and take the ongoing freedom movement
to its logical conclusion.
Condemning
the continued human rights violations by Indian forces and draconian laws
enforced by New Delhi in the occupied territory, the speakers appealed to the
international community to play its role in halting these rights abuses. They
said India is using extrajudicial killings, arrests, torture and other brutal
tactics to suppress the freedom sentiment of the Kashmiri people but would
never succeed in its nefarious designs as Kashmiris could not be suppressed by
killing, harassing and other oppressive tactics.
The
speakers said resolution of the lingering Kashmir dispute is imperative for
ensuring permanent peace in the region and urged the world community to help in
settling it in accordance with the aspirations of the Kashmiri people. At the
end of the conference, special prayers were offered for the souls of Kashmiri
martyrs.
The
conference was attended by former President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Sardar
Yaqoob Khan, Ghulam Nabi Nowsheri, Syed Faiz Naqshbandi, Mehmood Ahmed Saghar,
Syed Yousuf Naseem, Abdul Majeed Mir, Saleem Haroon, Abdul Majeed Malik, Mir
Tahir Masood, Nisar Mirza, Raja Khadim Hussain, Sheikh Abdul Mateen, Nazeer
Ahmed Karnai, Muhammad Sultan Butt, Adeel Mushtaq Wani, Javaid Iqbal, Zahid
Andrabi, Zahid Safi, Showkat Hussain Butt, Manzoor-ul-Haq Butt, Mushtaq Ahmed
Butt, Abdul Hameed Lone, Daud Khan Yousufzai and Imtiaz Wani.
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