India can’t change the disputed nature of Jammu and Kashmir through propaganda & repression: Abdul Rashid Minhas

SRINAGAR, April 2 (SABAH): The All Parties Hurriyat Conference has said that Indian policy based on intransigence, rigidity and violence is the main hurdle in peaceful settlement of the long-pending Kashmir dispute.

According to media reports, the APHC spokesman Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas in a statement in Srinagar said that India can’t change the disputed nature of Jammu and Kashmir through propaganda and repression. The Kashmiris’ struggle for securing their right to self-determination will continue till the implementation of the United Nations resolutions, he added. The UN resolutions reaffirm the Kashmiris’ right to self-determination, he said.

The statement demanded unconditional release of all illegally detained Hurriyat leaders and activists languishing in different jails of India and the occupied territory.

The spokesman said that Kashmir is a disputed territory and all those detained for struggling for freedom of their motherland are political prisoners and could not be held for whole life or treated like criminals. He said that the political prisoners were periodically released in all the disputed regions of the world but the Indian authorities did not pay any heed to the international principles.