Pakistan urged to continue support to Kashmir cause
20 July, 2012
SRINAGAR: In occupied Kashmir, the Hurriyet leaders, on the occasion of the Accession to Pakistan Day, Thursday, have expressed the hope that Pakistan will continue its political, diplomatic and moral support to the Kashmir cause.
The All Parties Hurriyet Conference Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in his message thanked the government and people of Pakistan for their support to the Kashmiris' freedom struggle.Veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader Syed Ali Gilani said that the government and people of Pakistan should speed up their efforts to resolve the Kashmir dispute.
Senior APHC leader, Professor Abdul Ghani Butt said that it was on 19th July in 1947 when in conformity with the ground realities, the Muslim Conference in its resolution passed in Srinagar declared Kashmir's accession to Pakistan.
A protest demonstration was held in Tral, Thursday, against an attempt to burn the shrine of Ameer Kabeer Mir Syed Ali Hamdani by unidentified persons in the area. However, the sinister design was foiled by the locals of the area. Four shrines including the shrine of Dastgeer Sahib had been destroyed in fire in less than a one-month period.
APHC senior leaders, Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi and Bilal Ghani Lone while expressing solidarity with the victims of Indian state terrorism in Zatchaldara area of Handwara maintained that New Delhi would not be able to break the Kashmiris' resolve for freedom through use of brute force.
Liberation leader, Mushtaq-ul-Islam was taken into custody, Thursday, when he was on his way to a hotel in Srinagar for a press conference. He had been released a few days ago after an illegal detention for over two years.
The Muslim League Jammu and Kashmir in a statement expressed serious concern over the continued illegal detention of Hurriyet leaders, Dr Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo and Masarrat Alam Butt.
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