India using Kashmiri women as tool to suppress liberation struggle

Gilani, Nayeem arrested, shifted to undisclosed places

In occupied Kashmir, the APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has appealed to the international community to take cognisance of the fact that India is continuously using Kashmiri women as a weapon to suppress the ongoing struggle for right to self-determination.

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was addressing an extraordinary meeting of the APHC at his residence in Srinagar, today. He urged India to repeal black laws, withdraw its troops and take steps towards resolving the Kashmir dispute to ensure peace and stability in South Asia. The meeting was attended by Professor Abdul Ghani Butt, Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi, Fazl Haq Qureshi, Nayeem Ahmed Khan and Mukhtar Ahmed Waza. Immediately after the meeting, Indian police personnel took Nayeem Ahmed Khan into custody and shifted him to an unknown destination.

On the other hand, the occupation authorities arrested several Hurriyet leaders including Syed Ali Gilani, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, Farida Behanji and Mushtaq-ul-Islam from their residences, this morning, shifting them to undisclosed destinations. The APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Mohammad Yasin Malik, Mian Abdul Qayoom and other Hurriyet leaders continued to remain under house arrest.

Meanwhile, complete shutdown continued for the seventh consecutive day, today, all across the Kashmir Valley against the molestation and subsequent murder of two women by the troops in Shopian. Forensic Science Laboratory report into the incident issued, today, revealed that the two women were raped before being murdered.

At least 20 people were feared dead as a vehicle, they were travelling in, fell into Chinab River at Karara in Doda. Three Indian troopers including a Junior Commissioned Officer were killed and three others injured in different road accidents in Ramban and Poonch areas.

Addressing a gathering of university teachers and students at Qum in Iran, Kashmiri intellectual, Shaikh Tajammul-ul-Islam urged Iran and other Muslim countries to take notice of the miserable plight of the Muslims in India and of state terrorism in occupied Kashmir.

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