‘Party delegations meet UNHCR at Geneva, UK foreign office’
Srinagar : “Booking JKLF chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik under draconian law Public Safety Act (PSA), shifting him to Kot Balwal Jail, putting him into solitary confinement thus endangering his life has raised many questions about the intentions of the Indian government. The international community should denounce and stop violence unleashed by states against peaceful democratic activities,” said the JKLF leaders while talking to UK foreign office, UN human rights officials at Geneva, and protesters outside Indian High Commission in London, according to a JKLF statement.
A JKLF spokesperson in the statement said party’s diplomatic head Professor Zaffar Khan led delegation held a meeting with United Kingdom Foreign office in London, another delegation led by zonal president EU Choudhary Tanveer and comprising Masood Mir, Naseem Iqbal and Mushtaq Devan held a meeting with United Nations Human rights (UNHR) officials in Geneva while as president UK zone Sabir Gul led a protest demonstration outside Indian High Commission in London against slapping PSA on JKLF chairman and ill-treatment meted out to him and others in jails and interrogation centres and other “human rights violation” in Jammu Kashmir.
Terming the arrest of Yasin Malik and others as undemocratic and illegal, JKLF leaders emphasized upon the need of immediate intervention by the international community to “save democratic voices of the people of Jammu Kashmir from Indian aggression, ensure an early and safe release of JKLF chairman and others from jails and stop killing spree in Kashmir”, the spokesperson said.
The leaders said that booking a peaceful political leader of the stature of Muhammad Yasin Malik under an “arbitrary and draconian law” and putting him into solitary confinement by the world’s “so-called” largest democracy can only be termed as a travesty of democracy and human rights.
“If suppressing peaceful dissent by jailing political leadership is a democracy then what can one call tyranny and dictatorship of Hitler and Mussolini who used the same tactics to suppress people’s voices,” the spokesperson quoted JKLF leaders as saying.
The leaders also condemned the custodial killing of a school teacher Rizwan Asad Pandith and said “the international community should denounce and stop violence unleashed by nation states against peaceful democratic activities of subjugated nations like Kashmir and stop aggression against unarmed civilians”.
Meanwhile, JKLF has paid rich tributes to its “great martyrs” Molvi Jalal Ud din @ Akbar, Liyaqat Ahmad Khan, Muhammad Ashraf Sofi, Mushtaq Ahmad Butt, and Parvaiz Ahmad Koki on their anniversaries.
While praying for them, JKLF said: “Their sacred blood and mission will be never compromised and JKLF will leave no stone unturned to achieve the desired goal for which these great souls sacrificed their lives.” (GNS)
