The veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Geelani has said that talks with India can only be held if it accepts Jammu and Kashmir as a disputed territory. Syed Ali Geelani, in a media interview in New Delhi, emphasised that India must withdraw its troops, repeal draconian laws, release all political detainees and conduct independent probe into the killings of civilians during 2010 uprising in the territory, KMS reported.
He maintained that if India fulfilled all these five demands, he was ready for tripartite talks among Pakistan, India and true representatives of Jammu and Kashmir. The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said in a function at Maharaj Gunj in occupied Srinagar that the APHC could not ignore the economic and other problems of the people besides focusing on carrying forward the ongoing liberation struggle towards its logical conclusion.
The High Court of Indian occupied Kashmir has given a month's time to the Indian Defence Ministry to submit its response to a petition, filed by a Kashmiri woman against Lieutenant General Bikram Singh. The woman claims that the Lieutenant General, who is a top contender for the post of Army Chief, is involved in the killing of her son in a fake encounter in March 2001 at Janglat Mandi in Islamabad.
Kashmiri Liberation leader, Javed Ahmad Mir, addressing a meeting, held at Laiser in Rafiabad to offer condolences with the family of a martyred youth, urged the international community to take cognisance of the human rights violations by Indian troops and police personnel in the occupied territory.
The Chairman of Kashmir Centre Brussels, Barrister Abdul Majeed Tramboo, in a statement, urged the European Union to play its constructive role for the settlement of the Kashmir dispute as well as implementation of its resolutions on the dispute. Similar views were expressed by the leader of Labour Party group in the British Parliament, Willmott, who addressing a seminar on Kashmir in Derby said that the situation in South Asia could not improve unless serious steps were taken for the resolution of the Kashmir dispute.