Srinagar: The incarcerated leader of Hurriyat Conference Jammu Kashmir (HCJK) Shabir Ahmad Shah has said the disputed status of Kashmir issue will not change by the change of government at Centre following the parliamentary elections.
According to a statement issued to KNS, he said the Kashmir issue is not an internal issue of India but the issue of the future of the people of Kashmir, which the United Nations Security Council acknowledged by passing 18 resolutions in this regard. Terming the debates on Article 370 as “childish”, Shabir Ahmad Shah said that Kashmiris have been running a resistance movement against Indian forcible occupation.
“Some pro-India people are talking about safeguarding the Article 370 while as some as hell bent upon its abrogation but the reality is that both parties are trying to divert the attention of world bodies from the core issue, the Kashmir issue,” Shah said, adding that our political resistance movement will continue till the issue is resolved as per the aspirations of its people.” He said Kashmiris should be given their birthright of self-determination as guaranteed in UN resolutions. The right of self-determination can also be achieved through the meaningful negotiations between Kashmiri pro-freedom leadership, India and Pakistan.
Criticizing the undemocratic and inhuman approach adopted by Indian authorities with regards to Kashmir issue, Shah said instead going through the historical background of the issue, India broke all the pledges that had been kept with the Kashmiri nation. “India considers Kashmir its beautiful property and muzzles the voice of its people by its military might.”
Shah said the Kashmir issue is a political issue and we want to resolve it in a political way but India is hell bent upon its political vengeance and exhorts limitless force on the people of Kashmir. “They incarcerate the Hurriyat leaders in and outside valley jails, implement black laws upon the people, arrest youth on false charges, and commit worst kind of human rights violations. It seems India is hell bent upon our ethnic cleansing,” Shah said.
Terming the peaceful solution to Kashmir issue as primary requirement for the peace and stability of the South Asia, Shah said the core issue between two neighboring nations India and Pakistan has cost so many wars and God forbid, cannot guarantee the possibility of further destruction which will encompass the whole subcontinent, in fact the whole south Asia. Meanwhile, Hurriyat Conference Jammu Kashmir spokesperson has strongly condemned the shifting of Freedom Party’s Peer Inayat ullah from police station to sub jail Kupwara and of Muzaffar Ahmad from Central jail Srinagar to Tihar Jail.