Shabir Shah calls for shutdown on Oct 27 Srinagar, Oct 23 (KNS): Hurriyat Conference Jammu Kashmir leader and chairman Democratic Freedom Party Shabir Ahmad Shah has called for complete shutdown on October 27 urging people of to observe this day as “black day” till there is complete withdrawal of forces from the state.“With the partition of subcontinent, India annexed the state forcibly, against which the people of Jammu and Kashmir launched a movement and continue to do so, but India left no stone unturned to suppress the legitimate right of Kashmiris and used military might to quash the freedom movement of Kashmiris,” Shah alleged in a statement to KNS.He said it was the issue of Kashmir that became a cause of conflict between the two neighboring nations, India and Pakistan following which the then Prime Minster of India, Jawaharlal Nehru took the Kashmir issue to United Nations Security Council over which 18 resolutions were passed in this regard but are not implemented hitherto because of India’s stubbornness and non-serious approach.“We want this long-pending issue to be resolved in the light of UN resolutions or through tripartite dialogue between India, Pakistan and Kashmiri pro-freedom leadership in order to ensure peace in the whole of south Asia particularly the subcontinent,” Shah said.Meanwhile, Hurriyat Conference Jammu Kashmir condemned the authorities’ crackdown on Hurriyat camps and house arrest of Hurriyat (G) leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, Altaf Ahmad Shah, Ayaz Akbar, Ghulam Muhammad Ganai and HCJK leaders Shabir Ahmad Shah, Nayeem Ahmad Khan and arrest of Muhammad Yusuf Naqash. The amalgam termed such arbitrary arrests as frustration of government and said that such arrests cannot weaken our resolve for freedom.Hurriyat Conference Jammu Kashmir also thanked the nation for observing shutdown today.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 13:39:53 +0000
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