India can’t frustrate Kashmiris freedom struggle through coercion, state terrorism: Seminar

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Rao Altaf Hamid Nizami.
MIRPUR ( AJK): August 12: Speakers while addressing a seminar reiterated Kashmiris firm resolve that India could not frustrate Kashmiris indigenous freedom struggle through coercion, state terrorism, violence and improvements after imprisonments of the Kashmiris.

Our Special Jammu Kashmir state Correspondent Rao Altaf Hamid Nizami reports that the seminar was hosted at Kashmir Press Club Mirpur on Tuesday to mark August 5, 2019 as Kashmir Exploitation-cum-black Day week observed at both sides of the LoC in the State.

All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Jammu Kashmir Union of Journalists, Refugee Action Committee Mirpur and Kashmir Press Club jointly held the event.

The president of the Union of Journalists, Hafiz Muhammad Maqsood Jaraal, presided over the seminar while Jammu Kashmir Milli Forum Chairman and senior Hurriyat leader Malik Muhammad Aslam was the chief guest.

The stage,was conducted by Refugee Action Committee leader Riaz Jaral. The recitation of the Holy Quran was performed by Muhammad Farooq Khan Jaral, while the honor of presenting the Naat of Rasool Maqbool (Peace Be Upon Him) was bestowed upon Professor Muhammad Sagheer Asi. Hasher Riaz presented the national song.

The chief guest of the event, Malik Muhammad Aslam, while speaking on this occasion, said that India cannot crush the freedom movement of Jammu and Kashmir through the hardships of imprisonments after improvements. The reign of oppression will end one day and the Kashmiri people will also enjoy the blessing of freedom. He demanded that the Indian government immediately release the long-imprisoned Kashmiri leaders in occupied Kashmir.

He also demanded that the United Nations and the international community must play their due role to get released the incarcerated freedom loving Kashmiris languishing in Indian and IIOJK jails. He also called for holding of plebiscite in accordance with the Security Council resolutions for a just solution to the Kashmir issue in line with aspirations of the Jammu Kashmir people, major party to the dispute.

Malik Aslam said that India has become isolated on the global stage due to the biased actions of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Indian Prime Minister has fueled his own era of oppression and persecution targetting Muslims and minorities in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu Kashmir and all over India. The sacrifices of Kashmiris, he said, will not go in vain and soon Kashmiris will gain freedom from the clutches of India, he added.

The chair Hafiz Muhammad Maqsood Jaral, while addressing the ceremony, said that the Indian government had abrogated the special status of Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir by revoking Articles 370 and 35A of its constitution so that non-Kashmiris [Indian citizens) could be settled in the occupied Kashmir with ulterior motives to change the population ratio.

“This unilateral move of India is an open violation of international laws including UN resolutions on Kashmir as well as the Indian constitution. He said that India could not crush the Kashmir freedom movement with such mean and unlawful tactics.

Lauding convincing defeat India suffered at the hands of the valiant armed forces of Pakistan in a briefing war in May this year, the JKUJ President said that the brave and strategic response of Pakistan’s armed forces under the bravest leadership of Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir to India on May 10, raised the prestige of Pakistan and Pakistani forces all over the world. The Kashmiri people pay great tribute to Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir and the chiefs of the air and naval forces, he added.

Hafiz Maqsood said that the current rulers of Pakistan have carried out effective diplomacy with their brilliant strategy after few hours of battle in Banyan-e-Marsoos. He also pays tribute to the Pakistani leadership for this historic success frustration the unprovoked I dian aggression. The Kashmiri Journalist community leader said that the international community should play its due role for a plebiscite in the state of Jammu and Kashmir helping resolved the much delayed Kashmir issue.

Addressing the ceremony, former General Secretary of Mirpur Bar Abdul Rehman Umar Jaral Advocate said that we have to effectively highlight India’s biased policies and atrocities at the global level. He said that after revoking the special status of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India was now reportedly taking steps to make Jammu a separate state with nefarious designs to destroy the unity of Jammu and Kashmir state. He emphasised that effective measures are needed to get India stopped from such sinister steps steps.

The seminar was also addressed, among others, by the AJK High Court Bar Association President Raja Waseem Younis, District President MQM Pakistan Mahmood Ahmed Siddiqui, Dr. Tahir Mahmood, President Anjuman Falah-o-Behbud Insaniyat District Mirpur, Zafar Javed Jaral, District Chairman Refugee Action Committee, Dr. Iftikhar General Secretary Liberation League, Ameer Tehreek-e-Labbaik Azad Kashmir Allama Abdul Ghafoor Tabani and Asif Butt of Jamaat-e-Islami AJK.

The speakers strongly condemned the Indian move of August 5, 2019 and said that India had occupied the state of Jammu and Kashmir undemocratically and illegally for past 78 years . India, they observed, was making a mockery of the decisions of the international community by keeping the whole world in the dark besides by not implementing the resolutions passed by the United Nations and the Security Council.

The speakers demanded of the United Nations, the Security Council and the international community to implement the resolutions passed by the Security Council and give the Kashmiri people their birth right, the right to self-determination.

The seminar was attended by former director of Mian Muhammad Bakhsh Library Mirpur, Professor Qazi Zubair Ahmed, in-charge of Kashmir Center Mirpur, Sardar Muhammad Azeem, Professor Basharat Elahi, Chaudhry Badr Abdul Shakoor Mughal, Noor Muhammad Raja Zahid, Chaudhry Hameed, Muhammad Yaqub, Chaudhry Ayub Kallis, contractor Hanif Mughal, Khawaja Dilawar, Zaheer Khan, Hamza Wali, Muhammad Iqbal Mughal, Raja Zahoor Sadiq, Muhammad Kamran, Waqas Ahmed, Nazakat Ali, Rafiq Mughal, Muhammad Faisal, Nazir Hussain, Khawaja Tahir Mahmood and Asif Mahmood besides a large number of people belonging to different schools of thought participated.

At the end of the seminar, Allama Abdul Ghafoor Tabani prayed for the freedom of all Illegally occupied Muslim homelands including Palestine and Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu Kashmir State.