HR bodies asked to help release Kashmiri detainees
13 August, 2012
SRINAGAR: In occupied Kashmir, the veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, has appealed to the Amnesty International and other humanitarian organizations to take cognizance of the plight of illegally detained Kashmiris and exert pressure on India to release them before Eid-ul-Fitr.
Syed Ali Gilani in a statement issued in Srinagar said that presently there were 891 Kashmiris languishing in different jails, interrogation centres and police stations. He said that the inmates at Kot Bhalwal and Amphala jails of Jammu were being subjected to custodial torture.
The veteran leader pointed out that the detainees like Dr Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Masarrat Aalam Butt, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Muhammad Ayub Dar and Muhammad Ayub Mir had spent several years behind the bars but the occupation authorities were not releasing them despite repeated court orders.
Senior leader of the All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi, addressing a gathering in Hassanabad area of Srinagar said that durable peace in South Asia was not possible without resolving the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the Kashmiris' aspirations.
The Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Muhammad Yasin Malik, addressing a meeting of his party activists in Srinagar said that the mass uprising of 2008 was an important milestone in the Kashmir movement.
He maintained that through the uprising, the Kashmiri people had succeeded to draw world attention towards the urgency involved in the early settlement of the Kashmir dispute.
APHC leaders, Shabbir Ahmed Shah and Yasmeen Raja, in their separate statements in Srinagar felicitated the people and the government of Pakistan on the eve of their Independence Day, being celebrated on Tuesday.
They thanked Pakistan for its continued moral, political and diplomatic support to the Kashmir cause and prayed for the security, stability and prosperity of the country.
In London, the JKLF campaigners and activists visited different mosques in connection with the ongoing "Torch of Peace" campaign where hundreds of people including Kashmiris lauded the timely and effective move. The campaign has been launched to highlight the Kashmir dispute during the London Olympics.
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