Kashmir Issue Rises as PM steps into the situations

Veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, talking to mediamen at his residence in Srinagar, today, urged India to adopt a realistic approach and give the Kashmiri people their inalienable right to self-determination in accordance with the relevant United Nations resolutions. He maintained that the occupation authorities were killing the innocent Kashmiri youth and through the imposition of curfew and other restrictions they were depriving the children from pursuing their education.

Resolution adopted by the assembly expressed “grave concern on the situation in occupied Kashmir”, condemned “India’s state terrorism” and demanded that India “stop murder and plunder”, withdraw troops from the “state/urban population, cancel black laws, lift curfew, end media blackout, release Kashmiri leaders and thousands of imprisoned youth, refrain from obstructing the performance of religious duties and locking mosques and allow international human rights organisations to come to occupied Kashmir”. It emphasized that Kashmiris were engaged in a “peaceful struggle for their right of self-determination in accordance with the United Nations Charter, UN resolutions, the Universal Declaration for Human Rights and resolutions of the Non-Aligned Movement as their basic right”. It appealed to world nations “not to remain silent spectators of the Kashmir situation and compel India to stop injustice and repression on Kashmiris and resolve the Kashmir issue, and take practical steps for the implementation of (relevant) UN Security Council resolutions.”