In Occupied Kashmir, the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC), Syed Ali Gilani has reiterated that Jammu and Kashmir is not part of India and expressed the hope that the Kashmiris would soon achieve freedom from the Indian bondage.

In a statement in Srinagar, he said that India has itself taken the Kashmir dispute to the United Nations and promised before the World Body to give the people of Jammu and Kashmir a chance to decide their political future through right to self-determination.

Addressing Seerat conference in Srinagar on Wednesday, Resistance leaders Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Maulana Abbas Ansari and Rafique Shah said that India is using its National Investigation Agency to suppress the Kashmiris’ freedom struggle.

The leaders condemned the inhuman treatment meted out to the Kashmiri political prisoners in Indian jails.

Hurriyat leaders and organizations, including Syed Ali Gilani, the forum led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Mukhtar Ahmad Waza, Zafar Akbar Butt, Dukhtaran-e-Millat and Peoples Freedom League in their separate statements paid rich tributes to Yawar Bashir and two other youth, martyred by Indian troops in Qazigund area of Kulgam district.

They criticized the puppet administration for unnecessarily prolonging the detention of Hurriyet leaders.

Meanwhile, several people were injured in firing of bullets and pellets by Indian troops on protesters at Hajin in Bandipora district, today.

A protest demonstration was held in Jammu region against the demolition of a madrassa and desecration of religious books at Gole Gujral by Jammu Development Authority.