Convenor All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Muhammad Farooq Rehmani has strongly condemned escalating incidents of killings of civilians by Indian security forces and gross and flagrant violations of human rights abuses by army and police in different parts of the occupied Kashmir.
He cited arrest of three sisters in Tral, killings of an innocent citizen in Sangham Marhama and a mentally upset youth in the Satorah Tral and abduction of a girl in Kupwara by a trooper during the last couple of days as some of the incidents of brutality by occupying forces.
He said that on the one hand Kashmiri lawmakers of the Indian coalition government were campaigning for trade, travel and CBMs from Srinagar to Central Asia via Jhelum valley road and on the other they had shut their eyes to the state terrorism in Kashmir and plight of detenues in the Indian jails.
He said that international community and lawmakers of India and Pakistan and their governments should concentrate on demand of Kashmiris for improvement in human rights situation instead of working on CBMs of trade and travel.
He said CBMs had not brought any change in the situation on the ground and Kashmiris are still looking for ways to restore their lost honour and prestige.
Muhammad Farooq Rehmani said that the human rights condition in Kashmir was never good but now it was worsening day by day because India had been given enough space to project itself as a state which believes in peace.
He said that the common man, civil society and lawyers community in J&K felt intimidated as no one listened to their woes and anguish. "Many Kashmiris are looking towards the new National Assembly of Pakistan and hoped that the new leadership would not be led astray by the rhetoric of pro-India Kashmiri politicians who come to Pakistan to create misperceptions," he added.
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