ISLAMABAD: (APP) The joint resistance leadership comprising Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik in Indian occupied Kashmir, has called for complete shutdown on Sunday (April 2) against the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi's proposed visit to the territory.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit occupied Kashmir to inaugurate Chenani-Nashri tunnel in Jammu region on April 2.
The resistance leaders in a joint statement issued in Srinagar said, "Indian Prime Minister is visiting at a time, when situation is extremely gloomy and massacres, detentions and blinding continue and there seems no let up.
Thousands are languishing in jails and authorities are denying any space for peaceful political activities."
They said, we don't have any animosity with Indian Prime Minister, however, it is painful that instead of taking notice of genocide in Jammu and Kashmir, he is awarding and rewarding the assassins.
They urged people to observe protest shutdown against Modi's visit. They said that strike was their only option to highlight the serious situation in the occupied territory.
The leaders said that the Kashmir issue was not about governance, economic packages or incentives, nor was it a law and order problem, but an issue pertaining to the right to self-determination of millions of Kashmiris.
The leaders pointed out that occupied Kashmir is reeling under black laws like Armed Forces Special Powers Act and Indian forces' personnel enjoy impunity to kill or blind whosoever comes in their way.
They said that the puppet authorities were shielding the wrongdoers and in the absence of any accountability, no guilty soldier or policeman was punished or tried under law.
Referring to the disappeared persons, the statement said, "It is painful that he (Modi) never took interest to inquire about those disappeared in Indian forces' custody, seven thousand unmarked graves and even preferred to turn blind eye towards gruesome events of Kunanposhpora-like episodes."
The resistance leaders expressed shock at the so-called Indian Parliamentary elections being held amidst continued bloodshed in the territory.
They said, sham polls held under the shadow of gun have lost credibility and the sole aim of this drama is to mislead the international community.