OSJK: Geelani condemns molestation of two women in Pattan
Friday, 29 October 2010 13:34
Srinagar, October 29, 2010: All Parties Hurriyat Conference Chairman, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, has strongly condemned the molestation of two Kashmiri women in Pattan
by the personnel of Special Operations Group (SOG) of Indian forces.
Syed Ali Shah Geelani in a statement issued in Srinagar said that the occupation authorities had regrouped and activated the notorious SOG. “Kashmiris cannot tolerate if anybody even casts an eye on the women,” he added.
He said that the authorities were reactivating the SOG to suppress the Kashmiris’ ongoing "Quit Kashmir Movement" (QKM) and to harass them. “During the last four months, people of Pattan have rendered unflinching sacrifices and faced brutal atrocities. As many as eight youth have been martyred by the troops in the area,” Geelani said.
The APHC Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani had said that India could not deter Kashmiris unflinching resolve to get freedom from its occupation through use of brute force. He reiterated that the ongoing QKM would continue till the people of Kashmir achieved their inalienable right of Self-Determination.
APHC had also appealed the people to make the protest programmes announced in connection with the ongoing QKM a success. APHC in a meeting held in Srinagar, with its General Secretary, Nisar Hussain Rather in chair, strongly condemned the occupation authorities for suppressing the Campaign through use of brute force.
The participants of the meeting also denounced the continued house arrest of Syed Ali Shah Geelani and re-arrest of Muhammad Rafique Ganai, the General Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Freedom League. They said that Kashmiris were left with no option but to protest against the brutalities of Indian army.
Meanwhile, the APHC spokesman in a statement in Srinagar expressed serious concern over the deteriorating health of illegally detained Hurriyat leader, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai in jail. He said that Sehrai had been suffering from different diseases but no medical facility was being provided to him. He demanded his immediate release along with all other illegally detained Hurriyat leaders and activists.
On the other hand, the Jammu and Kashmir People Freedom League has flayed the arrests and harassment of innocent people in Bandipora, Islamabad and Pulwama by the personnel of Indian police. The party spokesman in a statement issued in Srinagar said that the arrest of an eighty years old person in Bandipora was an eye-opener for the puppet administration.
The authorities re-imposed curfew and other restrictions in several parts of the Kashmir Valley to prevent people from holding anti-India demonstrations, today. Curfew had been imposed in Safakadal, Mehraj Gunj, Rajouri Kadal, Khanyar, Nowhatta and Rainawari localities of Srinagar besides in Bandipora, Kupwara, Trehgam and Kralpora areas of OSJK.
The authorities had placed the All Parties Hurriyat Conference Chairman, Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq under house arrest to prevent them to address pubic gatherings. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was scheduled to launch signature campaign at Jamia Masjid in Srinagar after Juma prayers, seeking US President, Barack Obama’s intervention on Kashmir.
The Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Khawateen Markaz has denounced the shifting of APHC leader and the party Chairperson, Yasmeen Raja, to Central Jail Srinagar under the draconian Indian laws.
The Vice Chairperson of Muslim Khawateen Markaz, Ayesha Shah, addressing an emergency party meeting in Srinagar, said that the occupation authorities had illegally detained the APHC leader for participating in protest demonstrations against the violations of gross human rights by Indian troops.
She said that Indian police unlawfully arrested Yasmeen Raja from her residence at New Colony in Tull Baghbanpura on October 26 and lodged her at Women’s Police Station Srinagar. “The police kept her there under illegal detention for two days. Later, they shifted her to the Central Jail under the black law,” she added.
Terming the detention of Yasmeen Raja as political vendetta by the puppet authorities, she said that the occupation forces through use of brute force could not deter Kashmiris’ resolve to get freedom from Indian oppression.
OSJK: Geelani condemns molestation of two women in Pattan