ISLAMABAD: Vice Chairman All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Ghulam Ahmed Gulzar has said that banning Eid congregations at different Eidgahs and mosques including historical Jamia Masjid Srinagar in Indian Illegally-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) is the brazen violation of religious rights of the people and also an attack on the religious identity of Kashmiris in the occupied territory.
Kashmir media service quoted Ghulam Ahmed Gulzar as having said in a statement in Srinagar that the Modi regime has proven itself as the worst enemy of Islam. He said the regime has declared a war against Muslims with the purpose to uproot them. The ban on Eid congregation is the glaring example of prejudice and hatred against Muslims which has now taken an ugly turn, he added.
Gulzar warned the RSS regime not to push the Muslims to wall as this anti-Muslim policy will prove disastrous for the colonial rulers. He said that Kashmiris have been deprived of all basic rights including the right to life. “Their religion, dignity, land, culture, honour, employment, economy, social life and natural resources are under attack. Hardly a day passes when the RSS regime does not pass any order to grab more and more rights of Kashmiris and push Kashmiris into darkness,” he lamented.
“Irony of fate is that now Indian forces are storming mosques and forcing Muslims to chant Hindu slogans,” he said and vowed that Kashmiris will never tolerate these kinds of cowardly acts. He said Kashmiris will sacrifice their lives for the protection of their Muslim identity. He urged every segment of the society to wake up, get united and resist this colonization and exploitation. He also appealed to Islamic scholars to educate people about evil intentions of the RSS regime.
Gulzar said on one hand Modi is advocating democratic principles in the US while on the contrary, it is making a mockery of democracy in Kashmir as he exposed the hypocrisy of Modi. He said India under Modi is not democracy but a fascist state.
Mushtaq Ahmad Butt, another APHC leader, in a statement, also criticized the Indian judges’ meeting in Srinagar. He questioned the logic of the conference while Indian forces are involved in killing, maiming and arresting innocent Kashmiris during raids and crackdowns on daily basis in the occupied territory. –APP
