ISLAMABAD – All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Chairman, Syed AliGilani has termed the exemplary election boycott observed by the people ofKashmir as a symbolic referendum against Indian subjugation.According to Kashmir Media Service (KMS) , Syed Ali Gilani in a statementissued in Srinagar said that it is highly ridiculous on the part of Indiato make vain efforts to prove a military operation as a peaceful politicalexercise.He lauded the resolve and commitment of the people for not participating inthe election drama under the heavy army siege, adding that despite thearmed crackdown, suffocating and obnoxious environment, Indian militarymight had miserably failed to convince people of the territory to reposefaith in its “democratic institutions”.Citing undeclared emergency and martial law on the occasion of so-calledparliamentary elections , Syed Ali Gilani strongly condemned the barbaricattitude of India to strangulate the popular voice of right toself-determination by banning the political and religious organizationsincluding Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir and Jammu Kashmir LiberationFront.He also castigated the despotic and imperialistic approach adopted by Indiato turn Kashmir into a hell-like prison where innocent people not only getkilled, maimed, blinded, ruthlessly beaten like animals, but alsoincarcerated randomly.Taking a strong note of the Indian stubbornness and turning its blind eyeto the ground situation in Kashmir, he regretted that India is trying tolet loose a reign of terror in the nook and corner of the territory byengaging its so-called investigative agencies like NIA and ED to malign thepious image of freedom movement.Stressing on the early resolution of the Kashmir dispute in accordance withthe Kashmiris aspirations, he expressed hope that India will shun its rigidstance and show its willingness to resolve this dispute at the earliest.
People of Occupied Kashmir gives verdict against India in symbolic referendum
