Daily Times

SRINAGAR: All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC) Chairman Syed Ali Gilani, in Held Kashmir (IHK), has appreciated the concern shown by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, about the deteriorating situation in Kashmir. In his statement, Syed Ali Gilani, while addressing the UN Secretary General said, “We are fighting for implementation of the UN Kashmir resolutions for the last 70 years.” “You and your institutions are well aware of the fact that this unfortunate region has been forcibly taken by India in 1947 and since then we are struggling to free ourselves from this Indian military grip by almost all means,” he said. Gilani said that deployment of seven lakh Indian armed forces had turned the small piece of land into a huge garrison and made it the densest military concentrated land in the world. More than six lakh people have lost the lives and hardly any day in these 70 years has passed when our people have not been subjected to any physical or psychological torture by this heavily equipped army,” he said. While commenting on present situation, he said, “Last 43 days have been a nightmare for the people, with 82 deaths, 500 blinded and 8,000 crippled by army bullets and pallets.” “Villages, towns and cities are under siege with thick blanket of strict curfew and whole population has been deprived of their basic daily needs. The army and police ransacked the houses in night, beating, molesting and killing our people irrespective of their age and gender,” Gilani said. He said that Kashmir is not a dispute between India and Pakistan, but an internationally recognised dispute with 18 resolutions standing witness to it.”