The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC), Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that a comprehensive strategy will be devised to strengthen the Kashmir liberation movement at all levels. In a media interview in occupied Srinagar after his re-election as Chairman, the Mirwaiz said, Kashmir is a political issue and it shall be solved through dialogue, KMS reported.
He maintained that arrests or house arrests of Hurriyet leaders and activists could not weaken the ongoing liberation movement. Senior Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani in a statement issued in occupied Srinagar strongly condemned the illegal detention of Hurriyet leaders including Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Aasiya Andrabi, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, Ghulam Nabi Sumjhi, Masarat Alam Butt and Muhammad Saleem Nunnaji.
The Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Movement in a statement in Jammu took strong exception to the killing of a 65-year-old civilian in custody of Indian police at Rajouri. On the other hand, a report issued by Kashmir Media Service, on the International Day of Democracy, on Tuesday, revealed that Indian troops, in their continued acts of state terrorism, martyred 92992 Kashmiris including 6961 in custody from January 1, 1989 till September 14, 2009. The report maintained that these killings rendered 22,703 women widowed and 107,273 children orphaned, while 9888 women were molestation by the troops.
The KMS report pointed out that over ninety-five innocent Kashmiris including Hurriyet leaders had been booked under the black law, Public Safety Act. Fourteen students were injured when a school bus, they were travelling in, skidded off the road and fell into a stream at Ashmuqam in Islamabad district of South Kashmir.