SRINAGAR: In Indian Held Kashmir (IHK), the All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC) has said that the continued house arrest of its chairman, Syed Ali Gilani, has taken a heavy toll on his health.
The APHC spokesman Ayaz Muhammad Akbar in a statement issued in Srinagar said that Syed Ali Gilani has been under house detention for the past more than six years. “This has taken a heavy toll on his health. Less physical activity due to house detention can complicate his health condition. His residence is under surveillance as CCTV cameras are installed at several points near it. It is illegal and unconstitutional to confine him to four walls of the house,” he said.
The spokesman also condemned the arrest of APHC General Secretary Shabbir Ahmad Shah only a few hours after his release from prolonged detention. He maintained that the puppet authorities wanted to create distances and a communication gap between the leadership and the masses. Their policy is leading to uncertainty in the territory and consequently the youth were opting for other means to give vent to their sentiments, he added.
According to media reports, the spokesman urged India to reconsider its Kashmir policy which had neither changed the status of the Kashmir dispute nor disassociated the Kashmiri people from the freedom movement.
Meanwhile, the APHC in a statement expressed serious concern over New Delhi’s decision of providing more pellet guns to the Indian forces’ personnel to suppress demonstrations in the occupied territory. It said that Indian authorities were hell-bent to muzzle the voice of Kashmiris. It illustrates their power of arrogance and they are looking at the Kashmir dispute through the prism of law and order, the statement said.
“Adding more weapons like pellet gun is of a grave concern for people in Jammu and Kashmir and moreover it is an open challenge for those organisations fighting and striving for human rights as these bodies have composed enough records about the horrors of pellet gun,” the statement added.
