August 5, 2019 is again annexation on Kashmir: Farooq Rehmani  

ISLAMABAD, August 02 (SABAH): Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People’s Freedom League and ex-Convener All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir, while condemning India’s decision to bifurcate the State into two parts of its Union Territory, abrogation its special constitutional status and imposing its own central laws has called upon the people to observe the black day and , has urged upon the United Nations to compel India to withdraw its previous decision which goes contrary to the UN Charter and the Security Council resolutions regarding plebiscite to ascertain the wishes of the people.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani said that India had been taking unilateral steps since 2019, against the wishes of the inhabitants, agreements with Pakistan and the international law to change the demography and Muslim cultural and religious identity of Kashmir. He said that the illegally Occupied State had been turned into a horrible security zone with military, police and surveillance agencies violating human rights of the people and dictating on them their terms to follow the police instructions.

He said not only politicians and civilians but human rights members had been put behind bars in thousands across India and Jammu and Kashmir. And the parents of the detained kashmiris had been deprived of meeting their relatives. He stated that mosques and shrines had been taken into the control and prayer Imams and Khateebs were not allowed to deliver religious sermons during the prayer meetings. He warned that the Occupied region had become a prohibited area where courts and judges do issue judgments in accordance with the dictates of the establishment.

Therefore, every proclamation after 5 August 2019 had been rejected which had no moral and legal sanctity. It is now the duty of the world body to intervene into the problem of Kashmir and facilitate necessary dialogue between the stakeholders to resolve the dispute peacefully in line with the relevant UN resolutions, concluded Muhammad Farooq Rehmani.