MIRPUR ( AJK) : July 27 (APP) ::Senior APHC leader Altaf Hussain Wani on Wednesday termed BJP\u2019s Tiranga campaign in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir a failed attempt to Indianise Kashmir. <\/p>\n
In a statement issued here on Wednesday, Wani expressed his grave concern over the plight of Kashmiri prisoners particularly the declining health condition of JKLF chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik who was on hunger strike since July 22.<\/p>\n
Wani while referring to Malik\u2019s fragile health said, \u201cMalik has already been suffering from multiple acute ailments.” The Indian authorities, he said, had been forcing the JKLF chairman to take extreme measures. Urging world human rights orgnizations to take effective notice of the matter, Wani said that Malik\u2019s life was at grave risk in jail. Highlighting the plight of other Kashmiri prisoners lodged in Tihar jail, the APHC leader said that Hurriyat leaders and activists languishing in the notorious prison had been deprived of their basic rights including the right to proper food and medical treatment. He said that it was unfortunate that the Kashmiri leaders had been left to rot in prisons without any trial.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the APHC leader took strong notice of the BJP\u2019s Hag Gar Janda campaign and termed it as an attempt to Indianise Kashmir. The Indianisation of Kashmir, he said, had started soon after India\u2019s apartheid regime revoked article 370 of the Indian constitution and stripped the region of its nationhood status.<\/p>\n
As part of its campaign to Indianise Kashmir and the Kashmiris, he said, \u201cModi government has taken several initiatives to erase Kashmiris\u2019 political and cultural history\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom renaming of Kashmir\u2019s historical places after Indian Hindutva ideologues to changing political, religious and ideological landscape of Occupied Kashmir and making it mandatory for Kashmiri students at schools and colleges to play Indian national anthem and celebrating International Day of Yoga were amongst some of the preposterous measures the Modi government had taken to Indianise Kashmir\u201d, Wani said.<\/p>\n
Commenting on the forceful hoisting of Indian flags in Kashmir, he said, \u201cForcing students, shopkeepers and employees to pay for the so-called national flag, and using state machinery to pursue common Kashmiris to unfurl the Tricolour on the occasion of 75th Independence Day is the worst example of forced nationalism that is utterly unacceptable and uncalled for\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cKashmiris consider hoisting of Indian flag tantamount to betraying martyrs who have laid down their lives while fighting the Indian occupation,\u201d he said adding that hoisting green flags atop houses showed Kashmiris\u2019 unconditional love for Pakistan and their innate hatred against India\u2019s forcible occupation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe apartheid regime, which continues to thrive on communal politics, fails to recognise that these repressive measures have always proved counterproductive,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MIRPUR ( AJK) : July 27 (APP) ::Senior APHC leader Altaf Hussain Wani on Wednesday termed BJP\u2019s Tiranga campaign in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir a failed attempt to Indianise Kashmir. In a statement issued here on Wednesday, Wani expressed his grave concern over […]<\/p>\n
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