ISLAMABAD, Nov (TNS): Kashmiri leaders across LOC and religious scholars of Pakistan, in a resolution passed here in a seminar on Thursday have asked world community to take cognizance of human rights violations, curbs on religious affairs and freedom of expression and step in for the settlement of Kashmir dispute in accordance with the UN resolutions.
Seminar, organized by All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir (APHC-AJK) was chaired by its Convener Ghulam Muhammad Safi and hosted by Executive Director of Kashmir Media Service, Sheikh Tajammul-ul-Islam.
Apart from AJK President, Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob Khan, as chief guest, Jamaat-e-Islami MNA, Sahibzada Tariqullah, diplomat Nafees Zakriya, Information Secretary of AJK PPP, Muhammad Matloob Inqilabi, Hurriyat leaders, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, Syed Faiz Naqshbandi, jurist, Barrister Syed Afzal Hussain, religious scholars, Syed Saqib Akbar, Allama Arif Wahidi, Allama Ameen Shaheedi and Dr Nadeem Baloch also participated in the function.
Participants were shown the visuals of Indian forces committing human rights violations of Kashmiri people with impunity. The participants, expressing grief over the treatment IOK people are being meted out, stressed the world community to take cognizance of human rights violations, curbs on religious affairs and freedom of expression and step in for the settlement of Kashmir dispute in accordance with the UN resolutions.
A resolution was also unanimously passed in the conference that Jammu and Kashmir is a disputed territory and the people of Kashmir should decide their future by themselves.
The resolution demanded an end to human rights violations, repeal of draconian laws in the territory and immediate release of all illegally detained Hurriyat leaders and activists languishing in different jails of India and the occupied territory.
It also denounced disallowing Friday prayers in Srinagar Jamia Masjid and described it as interference in the religious affairs of the people of occupied Kashmir. It also condemned the continued detention and house detention of Hurriyat leaders and demanded immediate halt to it.
The resolution condemned the continued Indian state terrorism in occupied Kashmir and declared that the movement was purely indigenous and had no link with any terrorist group or organization.
It flayed the sinister designs of BJP government to change the demography of occupied Kashmir by repealing the Articles 370 and 35A.
