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Kashmir a police state: Ali Gilani
Pakistan Times Jammu & Kashmir Desk

SRINAGAR (IHK): Terming the right of self-determination as the only acceptable solution to the Kashmir dispute, the senior Kashmiri Hurriyet leader Syed Ali Gilani has said that Jammu and Kashmir had been practically turned into a police state where judicial orders were flouted with impunity, reports KMS.

Talking to media men from New Delhi, Gilani said that Jammu and Kashmir is a disputed territory occupied by India illegally through military might. 

India had taken the Kashmir issue to the United Nations on its own and the Security Council had declared a plebiscite as the solution to the dispute.

Far from implementing the UN resolutions on the Kashmir issue, India is using every available tactic to crush the genuine struggle of the Kashmiri people, he said.

Gilani flayed the continued gross human rights violations by Indian troops and killing of the innocent civilians, as inhuman, saying that India was tearing human rights to shreds by the mass killing of Kashmiri youth.

Syed Gilani while denouncing the re-arrest of Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai, Massarat Aalam Butt and Ghulam Nabi Sumjhi, after the court release orders said that Hurriyat leaders were being thrown into jail to suppress the on-going Kashmir movement and sentiments of the Kashmiri people.

Meanwhile, the Jammu and Kashmir Muslim League has condemned the judicial remand of Hurriyet leaders including Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai and Masarat Alam Butt.

The spokesman of the Muslim League, in a statement issued in Srinagar, said that Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai sent to 10 days while Masarat Alam Butt on seven days remand.

He said that Indian police had produced the Hurriyet leaders before sub-registrar in the lower court in Srinagar to seek their judicial remand in two different fake cases registered against them.

Masarat was slapped with the draconian law, Public Safety Act (PSA) on November 19, 2009. This was the sixth consecutive detention of Masarat under the black law since his arrest on September 4, 2008 during Amaranth Land row agitation, he added.

The spokesman called the remand of the Hurriyet leaders unjust and undemocratic.