*SRINAGAR – All Parties Hurriyat Conference Chairman Syed Ali Gilani hasthanked Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan for raising the Kashmir issuewith US President Donald Trump.*

In a statement on Monday, he said that the United States should play itsrole for the resolution of the Kashmir dispute.

According to Kashmir Media Service, All Parties Hurriyat ConferenceChairman Syed Ali Gilani urged India to take concrete steps for permanentresolution of the long-pending Kashmir dispute to save the future of cominggenerations.

He said that the Kashmir dispute has consumed more than three generationsof Kashmiris and still continues to threaten the existence of yet anothergeneration. He strongly reacted to the threatening statement of IndianDefense Minister Rajnath Singh and said that Kashmir was Himalaya-likereality and such utterances from Indian rulers were not only far fromreality but also a sign of highhandedness and arrogance.

Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir Chairman Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, in astatement, expressed concern over the arrest of party worker, KhalidHussain in Kulgam and deteriorating health condition of Sajjad Ahmad Buttat Central Jail in Srinagar.