Chairman All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Geelani in a statement expressed his grave concern over the increasing highhandedness of the Indian state by employing its agencies and armed forces personnel as an aggressive and repressive measure against peaceful, unarmed civilians including pro-freedom leadership and activists.
He expressed his deep concern over the unabated arrests and detention of 14 civilians of Ratnipora Pulwama, slapping the PSA on Mushtaq Ahmad Veeri and Jamaat-e-Islami activists and terrorizing the pro-freedom people and their families through their agencies said that these barbaric actions can’t, in anyway, deter the people from vehemently supporting the ongoing freedom movement, because thecoercive measures, killings, detentions and suppressions will yield nothing, instead will lead to devastation.
Hurriyat chairman said that the repressive actions against the freedom loving people have failed on all fronts to suppress the people’s sentiments with the movement for right to self-Determination during the past 71 years especially since 1989 and in future as well.
Pro-freedom leader decrying the conduct of the Indian state as highly unfortunate and unacceptable and said that the Indian authorities are hell bent to curb and strangulate the genuine aspirations and political voice for right to self-determination. Purely a political and peaceful movement as recognized in UN charter is being negated and denied with muscular policy and by resorting to military might, he added.
Hailing the commitment, persistence and unshakable resolve of people in occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Hurriyat chairman said that the people are facing a big military power suffering from arrogance and utilizing its haughty approach, however their urge to resolve Kashmir has touched the pinnacle and freedom movement emerged as invincible.