Hurriyat leader hails Pakistan's efforts for Kashmir settlement

SRINAGAR:  All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani, appreciated the efforts of Pakistan in supporting a settlement to the long-pending Kashmir dispute, Kashmir Media Service reported.

A statement released by Syed Ali Gilani, read that the joint press conference of Prime Minister Imran Khan and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara expressed serious concern over the issues faced by the Muslim community worldwide.

Gilani urged the Muslim leadership “to come forward to extend a helping hand to the Muslims who are killed, crushed, subjugated and maimed in every corner of the globe.”  From Kabul to Karachi, Dhaka to Syria, Kashmir to Palestine everywhere blood of innocent Muslims was spilled for one or other reasons, he added.

The APHC chief said, Kashmir is an “unfortunate land chained by Indian imperialistic occupation for the last seven decades and our people are struggling hard to break the shackles of this forced slavery, but our oppressor, so-called world’s largest democracy, has responded with an iron fist to quell our just struggle leading to unabated cycle of death and destruction.”

Kashmir has become a testing lab for the latest and most lethal weaponry manufactured in the Indian factories, which create havoc in the peace loving Kashmiri population, Gilani’s statement said.