ISLAMABAD: All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC) has said that India cannot maintain its illegal occupation over Kashmir for long and the day is not far when the occupied territory will be freed from its yoke.
According to Kashmir Media Service, APHC spokesperson Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas, in a statement in Srinagar, expressing concern over the rise in atrocities and injustice in the IIOJK, condemned the continued illegal detention of Hurriyet leadership, youth and activists languishing in prisons in India and the occupied territory. .
He said the political detainees included APHC Chairman Massarat Alam Butt, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Aasiya Andrabi, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Dr. Adv Shahid-ul-Islam, Muhammad Rafiq Ganai, Hayat Ahmed Butt, Muhammad Yousuf Falahi, Ameer Hamza, Dr. Muhammad Shafi Shariati, Dr. Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Bilal Siddiqi, Abdul Ahad Parra, Maulvi Bashir Omarqul, A Islam Aadil Ahmed Zargar, Dawood Zargar, Zahoor Ahmed Butt, Noor Muhammad Fayaz, Rafiq Ahmed Shah, Advocate Zahid Ali, Zaffar Akbar Butt, Fayaz Hussain Jaferi, Shabir Ahmed Dar, Firdous Ahmed Shah, Jahangir Ghani Gunajs Butt, Sale Muhammad Yasin Butt, Shamsuddin Rehmani, Sarjan Barkati and others were languishing in various prisons in India and throughout the territory.
He said that during cordon and search operations and house raids, arrests and other brutalities would not be able to quell the Kashmiri sentiment for freedom. He added that Kashmiri people will continue their liberation struggle till complete success.
He said that Kashmir is an internationally recognized dispute and the United Nations has promised in its resolutions to settle it by giving the people of Kashmir the right to self-determination.
The APHC spokesperson appealed to the world community to resolve the Kashmir dispute and investigate war crimes committed by Indian troops in IIOJK to punish the culprits.
