SRINAGAR: In IndianOccupied Kashmir (IOK), the joint resistance leadership comprising Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik, while strongly condemning the detention of Hurriyet leaders and restrictions on a condolence meeting in Bu
dgam has said that the puppet authorities are choking space for peaceful political activities.
Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik in a joint statement issued in Srinagar said, “Highhandedness has touched a new height as we were not even allowed to mourn the killings.”
They said that the puppet authorities were choking genuine voices and shrinking space for peaceful political activities.
“Indian
forces are carrying out a well-thought-out plan of genocide. We are not allowed to mourn even over martyrs”. On April 9, eight precious lives fell to bullets and more that 150 people re
ceived injuries.
The leaders said that the situation was increasingly turning from bad to worse, resulting in political uncertainty in the occupied
territory.
They hailed the people of Srinagar, Ganderbal and Budgam for their exemplary poll boycott and said that this had conve
yed a strong message to the world community that election drama amid ten hundred thousand Indian troops was unacceptable and could not be a substitute for the Kashmiris’ right to self-determination.
