In occupied Kashmir, a woman was killed after she was deliberately hit by an Indian Army vehicle in Baramulla district.
The woman identified as Khursha Begum, wife of Muhammad Ramzan, sustained critical injuries after she was hit by an ambulance of Drugmulla Army hospital at Hadipora in Rafiabad area of the district.
She was rushed to Baramulla district hospital where from she was referred to Soura Institute of Medical Sciences for advanced treatment. However, Khursha succumbed to her injuries at the hospital.
The Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Muhammad Yasin Malik, has said that Kashmiri martyrs are the real heroes of Kashmiris and they will not allow their sacrifices to go waste.
Muhammad Yasin Malik said this while addressing a mammoth public rally in Bogam area of Kulgam today. Thousands of participants of the rally raised high-pitched pro-freedom and anti-India slogans.
To avoid arrest, the JKLF chief had reached Islamabad last night and visited the families of many martyrs and expressed solidarity with their families. He spent a good time with these families and told them that all the Kashmiris were at their back. He then travelled to Kulgam and reached Bogam where he addresses a gathering.
Yasin Malik in his address said that Indian puppet rulers and their police had left no space available for peaceful political activities and even going for condolences had been banned.
On the latest statement of Congress leader, Yashwant Sinha, who led a team to Kashmir recently, and has asked Kashmiris to start talks with New Delhi minus Pakistan, Yasin Malik said that India broke down the process of talks with Pakistan because Pakistani Advisor on Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz, intended to meet Kashmiris and Indian Foreign Minister, Sushma Sawraj, said that Kashmiris were no party and there was no need to talk to them. Today Yashwant Sinha is asking us to minus Pakistan and start a dialogue with India. We Kashmiris want to ask Indians, both the rulers as well as self-proclaimed honest intermediaries to come clean on this and reveal their original intentions behind these contradictory stances,” he said.
Yasin Malik said, the Kashmir dispute can be resolved only when all relevant parties are on board and part of negotiation process and the Kashmiris want to tell India that people of Jammu and Kashmir are principle party to the dispute and no solution can be achieved without their active involvement in the process of negotiations.
He also asked the Kashmiri people to boycott the upcoming so-called parliamentary elections.
Hurriyet leaders, Shabbir Ahmed Dar, Mohammad Iqbal Mir, Muhammad Ahsan Untoo and Manzoor Ahmed today visited Beewoora, Bijbehara, to express solidarity with the family of Shaheed Basit Rasool Dar.
Speaking on the occasion Shabbir Ahmed Dar, paying glowing tributes to the martyred youth, said: “This freedom movement belongs to great martyrs of Jammu Kashmir who sacrificed their precious lives.”
He said that the sacrifices offered by lakhs of kashmiris should not be forgotten and their mission to secure right to self-determination would continue till taking it to its logical end.
Meanwhile, the Jammu and Kashmir Mass Movement leader, Farida Behenji and Hurriyet leader, Mukhtar Ahmad Waza in their statements in Srinagar also paid rich tributes to Shams-ul-Haq on his martyrdom anniversary and reiterated the Kashmiris’ resolve to continue the liberation movement till success.
