All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Azad Jammu and Kashmir chapter, on Tuesday held a protest demonstration to condemn the recent killing of innocent people, including a pregnant woman, by Indian troops in Occupied Kashmir. Addressing the protesters, the speakers said that Indian troops were engaged in genocide in the occupied territory to suppress the Kashmiris' just struggle for securing their right to self-determination. They said the Indian government and security agencies had set aside the United Nations (UN) resolutions on the issue and warning of the United Nations Human Rights Commission.
They deplored that India had given a freehand to its troops to commit gross human rights violations in Occupied Kashmir. The speakers expressed solidarity with the families of the martyred Kashmiris and said the sacrifices of Kashmiri martyrs would not go waste. They appealed to the world community to take cognizance of the Indian atrocities in the occupied territory and initiate measures for settlement of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the Kashmiris' aspirations.
Meanwhile, Jamaat-e-Islami Emir Sirjaul Haq has said the current escalation in the brutalities of India's occupation forces in Indian Held Kashmir should be enough to arouse the conscience of the world community.
He said the JI would stage a Kashmir March on October 27 in Islamabad to express solidarity with the people of the held valley and highlight the plight of the Kashmiris on global level. He also appealed to the people to join the march with full enthusiasm and in large number.
According to a statement issued here on Tuesday, he said that during the last 70 years, India had tried every method to crush the Kashmiris and the brutalities of its forces even shamed Genghis Khan and Hulagu Khan. "Indian troops had martyred more than one hundred thousand Kashmiris while more than 150,000 Kashmiri youth are detained at the torture and interrogation cells of the occupation army and are being tortured in novel ways. The houses, fields of the Kashmiris, besides mosques, are being razed and burnt but the freedom spirit of the Kashmiris cannot be crushed."
Sirajul Haq said the third generation of the Kashmiris was fighting the war of the completion of Pakistan but none of the Pakistani governments had done its duty towards the Kashmiris in a befitting manner.
He said PTI government, soon after taking over, had made an offer to India for talks but the arrogant Indian rulers took it as a sign of Islamabad's weakness and gave no positive response.
The JI chief said New Delhi's attitude was the greatest obstacle in the regional peace. He said Pakistan and India both were nuclear powers and a clash between the two could engulf the entire world.