SRINAGAR – In occupied Kashmir, the Jammu and Kashmir Awami Ittehad Party(AIP) has condemned the police assault on its President and former memberof the so-called Kashmir Assembly, Engineer Abdur Rasheed.
A spokesman of AIP in a statement issued in Srinagar said that suchhorrible and shameful attacks would not break the will of party cadres, asthe party was committed to fight politically for right toself-determination, the birthright of the people of Kashmir.
He said that on Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s visit to occupiedKashmir on Saturday, Er Rasheed was put under house arrest throughout theday at his Jawahar Nagar residence as he had announced to protest againstthe visit. He said, “Late in the evening a heavy contingent of masked menin uniform forcibly entered the house of Engineer Rasheed and bundledfamily members including women and children in the kitchen.
Around twenty masked cops in presence of few guests on more than threeoccasions physically assaulted Engineer Rasheed and forcibly dragged him topolice station Rajbagh.”
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The spokesman said the shameless act is a desperate attempt to break thewill and hurt self-respect of the party Chairman but such cheap tacticswill fail as AIP is not an underground organization but representssentiments, sacrifices and aspirations of the Kashmiri people.
Humiliating and harassing the family and dragging Engineer Rasheed speakvolumes about the frustration, arrogance and misuse of power by the cops,he added.