Srinagar, November 05 (KMS): The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and senior Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani have appealed to the people of occupied Kashmir to massively march towards Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, tomorrow, to mark Jammu Martyrs’ day.
Talking to Kashmir Media Service on telephone, the APHC Chairman said that he was placed under house arrest this morning and was not allowed by the occupation authorities to come out of his residence. He said that if the occupation authorities disallowed the march tomorrow it would be held on Friday, the day after.
The APHC Chairman, while congratulating Barack Obama on his victory in the U.S. presidential elections said that it was high time to resolve the Kashmir dispute in accordance with Kashmiris’ aspirations for ensuring peace and security in South Asia. Illegally detained senior APHC leader, Shabbir Ahmad Shah in his letter from Srinagar Central Jail addressed to Barack Obama expressed confidence that the new US president would prioritise the Kashmir dispute to get it resolved, once and for all.
The Executive Directors of Kashmir Centres in Washington and London, Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai and Professor Nazir Ahmad Shawl and the Chairman of JKLF Rajbagh, Farooq Siddiqi in their separate statements also congratulated the US President- elect.
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, in a statement in Srinagar today, deplored that the lawyer of Muhammad Yaseen Malik was not allowed to meet him in Amphala jail in Jammu. The statement expressed concern over the deteriorating health of the detained leader.
Meanwhile, Kashmiris on both sides of the line of control and world over will observe Jammu Martyr’s Day, tomorrow, to renew the pledge that they will not rest till they achieve their right to self-determination. During the first week of November 1947, hundreds of thousands of Kashmiris were massacred by the forces of Maharaja Hari Singh, Indian army and Hindu extremists in different parts of Jammu region while they were migrating to Pakistan.
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