JNU professor says India illegally occupying Kashmir
The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Syed Ali Gilani has said that the lives of over 15 million people of Kashmir have been made a hell due to the lingering Kashmir dispute.
Syed Ali Gilani was reacting to the statement of British Foreign Secretary, Phillip Hammond. Hammond while addressing a press conference in Islamabad, yesterday, advised Pakistan against making Kashmir dispute a precondition for resumption of Pak-India talks.
Syed Ali Gilani in a statement issued in Srinagar, today, said that Kashmir was the only core issue between Pakistan and India, and sidelining this issue had neither yielded anything positive in the past, nor would it do so in future. He said that Britain had a key role in creation of the Kashmir dispute. He maintained that dreaming of durable peace in South Asia without resolving the Kashmir dispute was nothing but a deception.
The APHC General Secretary, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, in a statement issued in Srinagar also strongly reacted to the assertion of the UK Foreign Secretary terming it as unrealistic.
Hurriyet leaders, Ghulam Ahmed Gulzar, Ghulam Muhammad Khan Sopori, and delegation of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front and Salvation Movement visited Qaimoh area of Kulgam and paid tributes to a youth, who was recently martyred by Indian troops.
In New Delhi, a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Nivedita Menon, while addressing a students’ gathering at the university supported the plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir. She said that whole world believed that India was illegally occupying the territory.
Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union President, Kanhaiya Kumar, addressing students in the campus on the occasion of International Women’s Day, yesterday, said that Indian army personnel were involved in rape of women in occupied Kashmir. Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested on 12th February on sedition charges for arranging a function on the anniversary of Muhammad Afzal Guru’s hanging.
