The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik and High Court Bar Association have said that Jammu and Kashmir is an internationally accepted dispute, which has been even acknowledged by the Indian parliament and its leaders.
While reacting to the Indian Supreme Court’s verdict in which it had said that Kashmiris were citizens of India and that Jammu Kashmir had no vestige of sovereignty outside the constitution of India, Muhammad Yasin Malik in a statement said no parliament or court can change the disputed status of the territory by passing any law or verdict. He also cited the statements and pledges of Indian leaders including first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru as testimony to the fact that Jammu and Kashmir was a dispute that needed to be resolved as per wishes of its people.
The High Court Bar Association of occupied Kashmir at its executive committee meeting in Srinagar also expressed its serious concern over the judgment of the Indian Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, APHC General Secretary Shabbir Ahmad Shah, the Hurriyet forum led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Bilal Sidiqee and High Court Bar Association in their statements condemned the continued illegal detention of Dukhtaran-e-Millat Chairperson, Aasiya Andrabi even after court has quashed draconian law, Public Safety Act against her. They termed Aasiya’s detention as manifestation of undemocratic and dictatorial tactics adopted by India and its puppet administration in the territory.
Hurriyet leaders, Muhammad Musaddiq Aadil and Ghulam Mohammad Khan Sopori during their visit to some families of the martyred youth in Islamabad and Baramulla areas urged the international human rights organizations to take notice of Indian brutalities in occupied Kashmir.
In Mombai, prominent feminists and international human rights defenders at a campaign, initiated by Indian feminists called upon Indian President Pranab Mukherjee to repeal the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act, in force in occupied Kashmir to quell the struggle for right to self-determination. The campaign has been signed by more than 1500 women from all over the world.
