Srinagar, Jul 13 (KNS): The united resistance leadership of Kashmir had to participate in a joint programme on the Martyrs Day at the Martyrs Graveyard at Naqshband Sahab shrine and Hurriyat (M) Chairman, Mirwaiz Dr. Moulvi Muhammad Umar Farooq was to lead a procession after the Dhur (afternoon) prayers from Jamia Masjid, Srinagar to the Martyrs Graveyard where veteran resistance leader, Syed Ali Geelani and Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik were also scheduled to visit from their respective residences and offer congregational Fateh Khawani prayers to pay tributes to 13 July 1931 martyrs and all the other martyrs of Jammu Kashmir but the government tried to abort the programme by imposing curfew and severe restrictions throughout Kashmir valley and by sealing all roads leading to Jamia Masjid and Naqshband Sahab shrine on Wednesday.
In a statement issued to KNS, the Mirwaiz, who has been under house arrest for the past five days, tried to come out of his house to leave for the Martyrs Graveyard at Naqshband Sahab shrine by breaking the cordon of police and Indian forces, and after being stopped, raised pro-freedom and pro-Islam slogans and slogans demanding an end to genocide of Kashmiris and state terrorism from the gate of his house along with his supporters and jumped from the gate and succeeded in coming out of house arrest but Police and Indian forces standing outside soon arrested him and took him to an undisclosed location.
While he was being detained, the Mirwaiz condemned the killings of 35 civilians and injuries to hundreds of people of who many have been maimed, handicapped and blinded, and expressed his anger and resentment against the state terrorism and barbarism saying this oppression and bloodshed of Kashmiris was unacceptable and would not be tolerated.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel
Meanwhile, condemning the arrest and house arrests of the Hurriyat (M) Mirwaiz Dr. Moulvi Muhammad Umar Farooq, veteran resistance leader Syed Ali Geelani and several other resistance leaders, an APHC spokesman said Kashmiris had been held hostage in their own houses for the past week while civilians were being subjected to gravest of atrocities.
The spokesman while appealing the United Nations Organisation (UNO), Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and international human rights organisations to take serious note of the abject human rights situation in Kashmir said they should pressurize Government of India to stop the genocide of Kashmiris and end state terrorism in Jammu Kashmir besides initiating a process to resolve Kashmir issue as per the wishes and aspirations of the people of Kashmir.
The spokesman condemned the continuous house confinement of amalgam senior leader Javaid Ahmad Mir and Advocate Shahid-ul-Islam and continue arrest of senior leader Mukhtar Ahmad Waza at Khanabal Police Station South Kashmir.
Meanwhile, according to Hurriyat (M) Media Adviser, Advocate Shahid-ul-Islam, activists of APHC’s Human Rights wing visited various hospitals of Kashmir to enquire about the conditions of hundreds of civilians injured in the action by Police and Indian forces and prepared a report, which would be presented to APHC in the coming days. (KNS)