Srinagar, Dec 20 (KNS): Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Muhammad Yasin Malik on Wednesday said that the handing over of political activists arrested at Islamabad on Dec 15 to Special Task Force (SOG) and using customary ‘illegal police tactics’ to prolong their incarceration has proved the ‘fragility and absurdity’ of Indian democracy in Jammu Kashmir.
In a statement issued to KNS, Malik while condemning the ongoing oppression and extra-judicial tactics applied by police and other occupational forces said, “Indian rulers and the local government should feel some shame on these oppressive and undemocratic acts.”
He said that the handing over of political activists of JKLF and Hurriyat (G) namely Meraj ud din Parray, Mudasir Ahmad, Umer Aadil Dar, Shah Wali Muhammad, Moulana Mudasir Nadwi and Abdul Ahad to SOG and using traditional illegal police tactics to prolong their incarceration as ‘worst form of intimidation’.
Malik said that by stopping a peaceful public rally using iron fist of police and forces, arresting peaceful political activists, using oppressive tactics to prolong their incarceration etc are all glaring examples of the fragility and absurdity of Indian democracy in Jammu Kashmir.
JKLF chairman said that in November 2017, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and others issued press statements about defeating the resistance movement in Jammu Kashmir. “These Indian ministers boastfully claimed that whole Jammu Kashmir was with India and that no one was with Resistance movement here,” he said, adding that Joint Resistance Leadership while reciprocating these statements on 23rd November 2017 announced to hold a peaceful public rally in Islamabad and said that it was a litmus test for Indian democracy and if Indian Ministers and the local government really believed in democracy and had faith in their own claims will allow this public meeting.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel
“Arrogant Indian rulers and the local government led by PDP chose to ban the public rally and arrested me (Muhammad Yasin Malik) and Mirwaiz Muhammad Umer Farooq along with many others and kept Syed Ali Shah Geeani under house as usual. Not only this, police also clamped a stringent curfew in Srinagar and whole of south Kashmir and arrested scores of people including above mentioned activists and thus banned the democratic program. This was a clear proof that Indian leadership and the JK government possessed no guts to compete with the resistance camp on political front and only believed in suppressing the people’s voices with military and police might,” Malik said.
While condemning the slapping of Public Safety Act (PSA) on JKLF activist in Banderpora Bijebihara namely Showkat Ahmad Bhat who has been shifted to Kuthwa jail now, JKLF chairman said that thousands of young and old have been put into jails and police stations by democrats, which is a glaring example of the tyrannical behavior and undemocratic attitude of India and the local government.
Meanwhile, JKLF leader Zahoor Ahmad Butt along with a delegation visited Kupwara and paid tributes to innocent martyr Asif Iqbal.
Similarly, JKLF district president Pulwama Javiad Ahmad Butt along with a delegation visited Batmuran Shupian and participated in the funeral prayers of martyr Ruby Jan.
He also visited the bereaved family of Tanveer Ahmad and expressed solidarity with them.
JKLF spokesman said that on both the places, JKLF leaders while addressing people said that the sacred blood of these martyrs will never go in vain and their mission will be taken forward at every cost. (KNS)