Veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader in India Occupied Kashmir Syed Ali Gilani has castigated the puppet Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for failing to fulfil his promise to take action against the personnel of Indian Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) involved in the killing of a youth, Altaf Ahmed Sood in January this year at Boniyar in Baramulla. Syed Ali Gilani addressing a gathering of office bearers and workers of his forum at his residence in Srinagar said that Omar Abdullah had vowed to bring the perpetuators to book, but it was unfortunate to see the police reducing the case as a mere accident, Kashnir Media Service reported.
“If Omar has any conscious left he should think over his position and authority,” he stated. The veteran Hurriyet leader said, the killings of Altaf Ahmad Sood of Boniyar, Merajuddin Hajam of Hajin and Ashiq Ahmad Rather of Rafiabad stand testimony to the fact that there has been no change in the ground situation in the occupied territory. Syed Ali Gilani who was placed under house arrest on Saturday on his return from New Delhi said that the puppet administration was not ready to face him politically and had restricted his activities. He said that he had intended to pay condolences to the families of youth killed in Boniyar, Hajin and Rafiabad and was planning to travel to their native villages, but the authorities didn’t allow him. The veteran leader deplored that no FIR was lodged against the Indian troopers and police personnel involved in the killing of civilians during 2010 uprising and the culprits were roaming freely.
APDP demands probe into custodial disappearances in IHK: The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) in India Occupied Kashmir has demanded a probe by an independent commission into the enforced disappearances that have taken place in the territory since 1989.
The APDP members while staging a silent sit-in protest at Partap Park in Srinagar asked the authorities to reveal the whereabouts of the Kashmiris subjected to disappearance in custody by Indian troops and police personnel, KMS reported.
The APDP leader, Parveena Ahanger, talking to media men on the occasion, welcomed the recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur, Margaret Sekaggya, regarding the repeal of black laws, Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and Public Safety Act (PSA) from the occupied territory.
She said that the recommendations had provided a hope to the families of disappeared persons that the cases of their dear ones would be allowed by the government of India in courts. She maintained that the files of cases of disappeared persons were gathering dust in courts and offices of human right organizations as the government of India was not granting permission to investigate them.
She pointed out that through AFSPA and other black laws, India was shielding the crimes of its forces. 12-year-old Shazia Shah holding the photograph of her father, Syed Zaman Shah, who went missing 10 years ago after he left his Fateh Kadal Srinagar residence said, “My mother and grandmother visited every place, but they could not find my father. Now I have also joined my family’s struggle to locate his whereabouts.”
