Srinagar, Jun 05 (KNS): Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik Monday said that to stop united resistance leadership meeting and press conference, police from Sunday evening started ‘an oppressive campaign against leadership’.
Malik was talking to reporters before he was being taken away to the Police Station today.
The spokesman according to the statement issued to KNS said that a large contingent of police this morning cordoned the residence of Malik and arrested him immediately.
The spokesman quoting the Malik said that “these arrests, house arrests and other oppressive measures are a glaring example of Jammu Kashmir being run according to military marshal law.”
“To stop resistance leadership meeting and press conference, police from last evening had laid a siege around the residence of veteran leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani who is under house arrest from a long time, Placed Mirwaiz Muhammad Umer Farooq under house arrest and today morning arrested JKLF chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik from his residence and unleashed a reign of terror to foil a simple meeting and press conference,” the statement reads.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel
While condemning the spree of arrests and house arrests and banning a simple meeting and press meet, JKLF chairman said that “it has become a custom of the rulers to suppress every voice before it is raised and this suppression cannot be termed but as naked fascism and state sponsored terrorism.”
While paying tributes to the deceased JKLF leader in ‘Azad Kashmir’, Sardar Aftab Advocate who expired yesterday after a brief illness in Rawalpindi, Malik said, “Late Advocate Sardar Aftab was a true son of soil who remained steadfast till his last breath, endeavoured many hardships but never compromised on his ideology and principles.”
A condolence meeting according to the statement was also held at JKLF headquarters in Srinagar in which JKLF vice chairman Showkat Ahmad Bakhshi, Secretary General, Ghulam Rasool Dar Eidi, Zonal General Secretary, Sheikh Abdul Rashid and others participated.
Leaders while paying tributes to the deceased prayed for his heavenly abode.
They also expressed solidarity with his bereaved family. (KNS)