Islamabad 22 Nov 2011: The Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedom League Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, has said that despite conferring most-favored nation status on India and intensifying trade-cum-travel- related activities with it, real break-through on Kashmir between the two states would not take place without lifting up of draconian laws(AFSPA, DAA, PSA, etc. ) in Jammu and Kashmir and without stopping police harassment, and humiliation; and again granting basic political and civil rights and liberties to people. He said that the civil leaders and military commanders in Kashmir were two faces of the same coin and were foreseeing their doom in the absence of inhuman laws. But political need compelled them to criticize these laws and hoodwink the public opinion.
Muhammad Farooq Rehmani stated that if they were sincere then they should urge the legislative Assembly and Delhi to repeal black laws from this state. No hypocrisy would be accepted on this issue. He said that the state and the central government and their police and intelligence agencies had strangulated political workers' voice; there was suffocation and harassment of youths at every level, they had been implicated in fabricated criminal cases, they were being forced to attend police and army camps, besides courts; but they were arrested if they attended party offices or organized seminars or peaceful rallies. The spying agencies chased students and youths in universities, colleges, schools, Friday congregations and shopping centers. He further disclosed that even aged and teenagers were languishing in jails and police camps for years together and people cursed these rulers praying to Allah to bring doom to Indian rulers in Kashmir.
Muhammad Farooq Rehmani expressed shock over the apathy of the world community towards Indian oppression in Kashmir which meant that the world had forgotten Kashmir in their pursuit for advancing inequities of capitalism, thus encouraging India's intransigence on Kashmir issue.
Given the firm and constant faith of the Kashmiris for freedom he called upon the government of Azad Kashmir to revisit and review their role viz-a-viz the freedom movement in a solid manner; equally Pakistan Parliament to review and examine some of the latest decisions regarding trade with India, in the light of its implications on Kashmir and initiate tangible measure to counter India's propaganda .He said that the world community and Muslim Ummah could be convinced to exert pressure on India, only if Pakistan formulated its own firm stand on the right of self -determination and basic human rights of the Kashmiris.
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