Srinagar: Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Tuesday, while chairing a Hurriyat’s executive, general council and working committee meeting, said that the state was being ‘deliberately converted into a police state where all rights of people are muzzled’.
He expressed concern over the killing and arresting of civilians during search operations and the fresh wave of “crackdown” on the resistance leaders.
The meeting was held at the Rajbagh headquarters in Srinagar.
Hurriyat meet today,Fresh wave of arrests and harassment of Pro freedom Hurriyat activists and workers,youth starts,as the state panchayat & municipal election drama unfolds in J&K! Nocturnal raids and vigil on their homes increases while they are either arbitrarily arrested or.. pic.twitter.com/Y5qxu1drOJ
— Mirwaiz Umar Farooq (@MirwaizKashmir) September 18, 2018
asked to visit police stations! All this as killing of Kashmiri’s under CASO continues..witnessing different avatars of “democracy “! pic.twitter.com/km3uJUNI8z
— Mirwaiz Umar Farooq (@MirwaizKashmir) September 18, 2018
Talking to reporters, Mirwaiz said that the situation in Kashmir is very sensitive and the meeting discussed the prevailing situation threadbare.
“All the participants expressed strong concern and resentment over the killing and arresting youth during CASOs, especially in the southern Kashmir and termed it as unacceptable,” he said.
Mirwaiz said that entire Kashmir is being drenched in the blood of youth on one hand and one the other, police along with paramilitary forces are raiding the residences of resistance leaders and arresting them.
“It seems that a massive crackdown has been launched on the resistance leadership ahead of the so-called Local Bodies and Panchayat polls,” he said.
He commended the statement of United Nations Human Rights Council Chief Michelle Bachelet in which she criticised the New Delhi for not acting on its report. “It was high time for the UN body to work towards implementing the resolutions pending before the very forum regarding Kashmir dispute,” said Mirwaiz.
Earlier, the Joint Resistance Leaders (JRL) while reiterating their call of ULB, Panchayat polls said that it is a “political gimmick to hoodwink international community”.
Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Mohammad Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik while rejecting any electoral process as a substitute to right to self-determination, made a fervent appeal to the freedom loving people of Kashmir to observe a complete election boycott of the upcoming municipal and local bodies elections in the Jammu and Kashmir.
In a statement, urging the people to rise to the occasion to disprove any Indian writ on the ground in the shape of peoples support, the JRL termed the election drama as a political gimmick to hoodwink the International community that the people of Kashmir enjoy Indian democracy freely.
