Hope 2025 will be the year of peace and liberation of Kashmir, Palestine: Mahmood Ahmed Saghar 

ISLAMABAD, Jan 02 (SABAH): Acting Chairman Jammu Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party Mahmood Ahmed Sagar has expressed the hope that 2025 will be the year of peace and liberation of Indian occupied Kashmir and Palestine.

In a statement issued on Thursday, the DFP leader, while referring to the bloody incidents that took place in occupied Kashmir last year, said that Indian forces martyred 101 innocent Kashmiris, including 3 minors during their ongoing acts of state terrorism last year.

“Out of these, 50 people were martyred in fake encounters”, he said, adding that the continued bloodshed and violence has left 8 women widowed and 24 children orphaned. 

Mahmood Ahmed Saghar regrettably noted that the Occupied Jammu and Kashmir was reeling under India’s brutal repression despite the passage seventy-seven years.

Following the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A on August 5, 2019, he said, ” Indian forces have martyred 955 Kashmiris. He said that thousands of Kashmiri prisoners, who have been booked under trumped up charges, were languishing in jails in and out side for the past several years.

Drawing parallels between Kashmir and Palestine, Mahmood Ahmed Saghar said that the people of both the regions were victims of settler colonialism.

“The systematic genocide of Palestinian Muslims at the hands of Israeli Zionists and slow motion genocide of Kashmiri Muslims at the hands of RSS influenced racist regime of India is the biggest challenge for the world conscience”, Saghar remarked.

He urged the world community particularly the United Nations to take effective notice of the brutal repression of the Palestinian and Kashmiri people and play their much needed role to resolve this age old conflicts that pose a serious threat to global peace and security.

Mahmood Ahmed Saghar expressed the optimism that the New Year would usher in an era of peace, prosperity, happiness and freedom for the people all across the world especially for oppressed people living in disputed regions like Kashmir and Palestinian.