Senior APHC leader and Chairman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai has deplored that the promise made by United Nations to hold a plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir has not been fulfilled despite the passage of over seven decades.
In a statement in Srinagar, he welcomed a Pakistan-sponsored resolution unanimously passed by UN reaffirming the right to self-determination of the peoples of the world.
He said resolution serves to focus the world attention on the freedom struggle by peoples of Kashmir and Palestine for their inalienable right to self-determination.
He urged international community particularly the UN to impress upon India to stop its state terrorism in occupied Kashmir.
Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai also expressed serious concern over the inhuman treatment meted out to the illegally detained Kashmiris in jails.
Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference, Shabbir Ahmed Dar appreciated Pakistan for effectively highlighting the Kashmir dispute at the global level.
A Srinagar court has sent the illegally detained Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Muhammad Yasin Malik, and his seven associates to four days police remand after Indian police brought false charges of attempt to murder of police personnel against them.
Hurriyat forum led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, APHC leader, Bilal Siddiqui, Kashmir Economic Alliance Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Khan, and the High Court Bar Association of occupied Kashmir in their statements denounced the detention of Muhammad Yasin Malik and his associates and implicating them on false charges by the occupation authorities.
In London, speakers at a function highlighted the sufferings of the people of conflict zones including occupied Kashmir.
The event held at UK Parliament was hosted by Jack Brereton MP and organised by the European Caucasus House, a Brussels-based NGO.