All Parties Hurriyat Conference has urged the United Nations and other international human rights organizations to pressure India to release all Kashmiri political detainees languishing in jails of India and occupied territory.

According to Kashmir Media Service, APHC spokesman Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas in a statement issued in Srinagar expressed serious concern over the continued illegal detention of thousands of Hurriyat activists and leaders.

He said that illegal detentions and other repressive tactics by the occupation authorities could not stop the Kashmiri people from continuing their struggle for securing their right to self-determination.

The spokesman expressed deep concern over the plight of Kashmiri detainees

He urged the Indian media fraternity and civil society to put pressure on the Indian government to resolve all disputes with Pakistan, particularly the Jammu and Kashmir conflict, through talks.

He said the dream for peace and prosperity in the region will remain elusive unless grave issue of Jammu and Kashmir is resolved as per aspirations of the Kashmiri people. 

Despite International Mother day being observed today, thousands of Kashmiri women continue to suffer the atrocities Indian state terrorism in the held vally.

A report released by Research Section of Kashmir Media on the occasion today said as many as 22,974 women have been widowed and 11,263 disgraced since 1989.

The report deplored that over three dozen women, including Aasiya Andrabi, Naheeda Nasreen Fehmeeda Sofi, were illegally facing detention in different jails, including India’s infamous Tihar jail, on false charges.

The report said thousands of Kashmiri mothers continue to wait for return of their sons imprisoned or subjected to enforced disappearances in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.