DFP concerned over grim situation, confiscation of civilians’ properties & dismissal of employees by occupation authorities in IoK

SRINAGAR, March 25 (SABAH): Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) has expressed grave concern over the worsening political and human rights situation, harassment of Hurriyat leaders and their families, termination of Kashmiri employees and confiscation of civilians’ properties by Indian occupation authorities in the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

The DFP Spokesman Advocate Arshad Iqbal in a statement issued in Srinagar said that Narendra Modi-led fascist Indian government had intensified its brutalities against the Kashmiris to punish them for challenging India’s illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir. He said Indian troops operating under the protection of draconian laws have unleashed a reign of terror in the occupied territory.

“Innocent people are being harassed and humiliated during cordon and search operations”, the spokesman said, adding that extra-judicial killings, enforced disappearances, terminating government employees from their jobs and confiscation of civilians’ properties and killing of youth in fake encounters are being used by India as a war tactic to suppress Kashmiris’ legitimate struggle for right to self-determination”. He said that since 1989 hundreds of thousands of Kashmiris have been killed by the Indian army. He said that the massive troops’ concentration in the region has led to gross human rights violations in the region.

Arshad Iqbal said that Modi regime was terrorizing the families of Hurriyat leaders by attaching their houses and properties. He maintained that such mean tactics will not deter the Hurriyat leaders from pursuing the collective cause of freedom from India for which the Kashmiris have given unprecedented sacrifices.

He said that the international human rights organizations must take stock of the situation and play their due role to bring an end to the brutalities being inflicted on Kashmiri people by Indian troops.

He also denounced the continued illegal detention of Hurriyat leaders, human rights defenders, journalists and civil society activists who have been arrested before and after 5th August 2019.

He said that the international community should come forward in a big way to help resolve the long-standing Kashmir dispute that has been the main cause of sufferings of the Kashmiri people