SRINAGAR: The All Parties Hurriyet Conference Chairman Syed Ali Gilani has expressed deep grief over the death of a boy, Waseem Mushtaq, and demanded stringent action against the troops involved in shooting pellets and bullets at him.
Waseem Mushtaq of Kulgam was critically injured when Indian troops had fired pellets on peaceful protesters in Mirhama area in August, last year. He had received over three hundred pellets and succumbed to his injuries on Monday, said a press release issued on Thursday.
Gilani said that all the Kashmiris stood with the bereaved family. He said that although experts had declared pellet gun a lethal weapon, its use in Indian Occupied Kashmir had not stopped.
The APHC chairman termed the use of pellet gun as the worst kind of state terrorism. He deplored that innocent people were being killed and maimed in the territory due to the excessive use of force by Indian police and troops.
Meanwhile, Gilani in a separate statement urged Kashmiri authors, scholars, poets and writers to use Kashmiri language for glorification and promotion of the resistance movement. He said that Kashmiri language had been perpetually ignored by the rulers that resulted in it lagging behind. He said that importance of Arabic, Urdu, and Persian could not be ignored and any kind of ignorance or negligence towards these languages could prove disastrous for the Muslim identity of Kashmiri people.
