Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) head of central convening committee, Khawaja Saifudin has appealed people of Jammu Kashmir to observe complete strike (Hartal) tomorrow on Wednesday, the 17 February, 2021 against the proposed visit of selected European parliament members to Kashmir arranged by the government of India.
In a statement issued from the party central information office, Khawaja Saifudin said that India has been doing such drama’s to hoodwink the international community. While expressing their dismay through a peaceful strike over the proposed visit of European parliament members tomorrow managed the government of India, the people of Jammu Kashmir shall give a clear message to India and the international community as well, especially to the visiting European delegation, that the State of Jammu Kashmir is not an integral part of India but a disputed territory whose final settlement is yet to be determined by the inhabitants of the State only through the exercise of free, fair and unfettered right of self-determination.
He said, India has been using her military might to suppress the popular and peaceful freedom struggle in Jammu Kashmir. More than hundred thousand people have been killed so far, thousands disabled and including the top leadership thousands of freedom loving Kashmiri’s are still languishing in different Indian jails, he added. JKLF acting head said that by making these selected European parliament members to visit Kashmir in the government protocol and not allowing them to meet common people, India actually wants to hoodwink the world community by hiding the truth. He explained that UNHRC in its detailed reports published in 2018-19, exposed India being involved in gross human rights violation in Jammu Kashmir. India, in pursuit to counter these allegations, has been managing these dramas, he added.
According to the party spokesman, Khawaja Saifudin has appealed the world human rights organizations and the world powers to take notice of the gross human rights violations by Indian forces in Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir and play their active and necessary role in resolving the long pending Kashmir issue in accordance with wishes and aspirations of the people of the State of Jammu Kashmir through the exercise of unfettered right of self-determination.
According to a JKLF spokesman, the JKLF acting head condemned the arrest of human rights activist Ahsan Untoo in Kashmir. Khawaja Saifudin also expressed his deep grief over the death of a Lahore based renowned lawyer Dr. Abdul Basit who had the honor to defend Maqbool Butt and the then other topmost pro-independence leadership in Ganga Hijacking case in 1971 in Lahore.