Kashmir settlement imperative for peace in South Asia

Srinagar, January 28 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, senior leader of the All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Professor Abdul Ghani Butt has said that resolution of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the Kashmiris’ aspirations is imperative for ensuring durable peace as well as better economic situation in South Asia.

Professor Abdul Ghani Butt in a statement issued in Srinagar, today, reacted strongly to a survey conducted in occupied Kashmir by the Indian Home Ministry through a research institute.

Professor Butt pointed out that it seemed that efforts were going on to give a communal colour to the Kashmiris’ liberation struggle. He said that the Hurriyet Conference would not succumb to such moves and the people involved in this kind of exercises should direct their efforts towards settling the lingering Kashmir dispute for ensuring peaceful environment between Pakistan and India.

APHC leaders, Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi, Nayeem Ahmed Khan and Zafar Akbar Butt, in their separate statements appealed to the international community to help stop atrocities against innocent people of occupied Kashmir. They demanded immediate release of all illegally detained Kashmiris languishing in different jails.

On the other hand, senior police officers admitted while talking to media men in Srinagar that 421 unmarked graves existed in Baramulla district.

In an embarrassment to India, the puppet Chief Minister of occupied Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, addressing a function in New Delhi, criticised the parading of Kashmiri youth by Indian army and police ahead of India’s Independence and Republic days in the occupied territory. He termed as unfortunate the incidents like shooting of a Kashmiri student in Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons in a media statement expressed serious concern over the granting of awards to the two Indian police officers who were involved in custodial killing of a Sopore youth last year.