Srinagar, January 31, 2019 (PPI-OT): In occupied Kashmir, the Joint Resistance Leadership comprising Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik, has called for a complete shutdown on Sunday to register protest against the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the territory on that day.
The Joint Resistance Leadership in a joint statement issued in Srinagar, today, asked the Kashmiri people to halt their activities as a mark of protest against Modi’s visit on the day. It said it will also give a message to the whole world that the people of the territory will not relent in their peaceful struggle for the right to self-determination despite facing Indian oppression and tyranny. It said that Modi’s rule brought only miseries and agony to the Kashmiri people. The JRL added that the arrival of such a person who ordered killings, arrests and other iron-fist oppressive measures in the territory could not be an occasion of joy for the Kashmiris.
On the other hand, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference convened a meeting of its Majlis-e-Shoora presided over by its chairman, Syed Ali Gilani, at his Hyderpora residence in Srinagar, today. The meeting, which was attended by the representatives of the respective constituents, thoroughly discussed the overall political situation in the territory. It showed its grave concern about the deteriorating condition of the Kashmiri political prisoners languishing in various jails particularly at Delhi’s Tihar Jail.
Addressing the meeting, Syed Ali Gilani said that the Kashmiris’ right to self-determination was not only acknowledged globally but was also confirmed by more than a dozen UNSC resolutions. He lamented that the persistent denial of this basic right on the part of India had turned this beautiful piece of land into a battlefield where everyday killings, crackdowns, arrests, nocturnal raids and bulldozing residences had become a routine.
Meanwhile, the Chairman of Hurriyat forum, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, talking to reporters in Srinagar said the policy of repression adopted by India against the Kashmiris was responsible for the deteriorating situation in the territory. He said that the Kashmiris’ freedom struggle was not for any economic package or chair but purely for the right to self-determination.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and other Hurriyat leaders including Ghulam Mohammad Khan Sopori, Javaid Ahmad Mir, Imtiyaz Ahmad Reshi, Syed Muhammad Shafi, Noor Muhammad Kalwal and the spokesman of Islami Tanzeem Azadi, in their statements issued in Srinagar paid glowing tributes to teenage martyr Wamiq Farooq on his 9th martyrdom anniversary, today. Wamiq Farooq, a class 7th student, was killed when a teargas shell fired by the Indian police hit him at Rajouri Kadal in Srinagar on 30th January 2010. Taking to Twitter, Mirwaiz said despite passing of nine years into the killing of Wamiq Farooq justice still eludes him till this day.
Seven people including three women and two Indian paramilitary personnel were injured in a grenade blast in south Kashmir’s Islamabad town, today. The Srinagar-Jammu highway, the only road link connecting the Kashmir valley with the rest of the world, was closed, today, following fresh snowfall and landslides at different places on the highway. Several flights were also cancelled at Srinagar Airport due to the bad weather.
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