SRINAGAR: In occupied Kashmir, the Mirwaiz-led forum has said that South Asia would continue to remain elusive until the Kashmir dispute is resolved in accordance with the United Nations resolutions.
This was asserted at the joint meeting of Executive Council, General Council and Working Committee meeting of Hurriyet forum Executive Council at Rajbagh in Srinagar. The meeting was presided over by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. The participants asked for talks between all the three stakeholders of the Kashmir dispute comprising Pakistan, India and the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Asserting that Kashmir was not an issue of law and order but a political issue involving the political future of the people of J&K, the meeting stated that it was in the larger interest of the people of entire South Asia to address and resolve this issue in order to take out billions of people of this region out of political uncertainty and towards a bright future.
The meeting was attended by Maulana Abbas Ansari, Professor Abdul Ghani Butt, Bilal Ghani Lone and Mukhtar Ahmad Waza. The leadership decided to continue the discussion in this regard. It said, “The use of coercion and suppression has not succeeded to make Kashmiris submit in the past nor is it ever going to succeed in dampening the freedom spirit of the resistance leaders and its people.”
Expressing serious concern over the illegal detention of thousands of Kashmiri political prisoners languishing in different jails and police stations in and outside Kashmir, it was described as the worst policy of political vendetta. The meeting demanded immediate release of all such political prisoners.
