World urged to help stop Indian tyranny in Kashmir
Pakistan Times Kashmir Desk

SRINAGAR: The Chairman of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Gilani has urged the world community to play its role in getting stopped the Indian state-terrorism in occupied Kashmir.

In an interview with Kashmir Media Service from New Delhi today, he said, violations of human rights by Indian troops have further increased.

Only yesterday, he added, the Indian troops opened fire on peaceful demonstrators in Shopian, killing one person and injuring several others. He said, this is a clear instance of state-terrorism by Indian troops.

Complete protest strike was observed today in Matribugh and other adjoining areas of Shopian against yesterday's firing by the Indian troops on demonstrators. These areas remained under military siege for the sixth consecutive day Saturday.

The APHC spokesman, in a statement in Srinagar strongly reacted against the puppet regime's claim that there was no political prisoner in jails.

He emphasized that contrary to such hollow claims, there are hundreds of political leaders and activists in various jails, who are not being released despite court's orders.

He pointed out that the detained APHC leaders included Sheikh Abdul Aziz, Mussarrat Alam, Firdous Ahmad Shah, Abdul Aziz Dar, Ghulam Ahmad Mir, Zamruda Habib and Shabbir Ahmad Khan.●