Amit Shah’s statement nothing more than a communal, hate politics : APHC

Farooq Abdullah questions security lapses in Pahalgam attack

SRINAGAR: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference has said that people of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir view Indian Home Minister Amit Shah as a communal and criminal person who is attempting to further the anti-Kashmir and anti-Pakistan agenda in the internationally-recognized disputed territory.

According to Kashmir Media Service, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah in an interview with Times of India on Saturday said, India will never restore the Indus Waters Treaty with Islamabad, and the water flowing to Pakistan will be diverted to Rajasthan by constructing a canal.

The 1960 treaty had guaranteed water access for 80% of Pakistan’s farms through three rivers in IIOJK.

APHC spokesman Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas in a statement in Srinagar said that being mastermind of the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A and the subsequent landing of thousands of Kashmiri Hurriyat leaders, activists, journalists and human rights defenders in jails under draconian laws, Amit Shah was a criminal for the people of Jammu and Kashmir.

He pointed out that the Kashmiri people have nothing to do with the so-called Indian govt official tours and programes conducted under the cover of hundreds of thousands of occupation troops.

The APHC maintained that the Amit Shah’s hate politics is creating more tension in the region adding that Kashmir is a disputed territory and Kashmiris will never stop water originating from the disputed territory to Pakistan. “Pakistan has full right on the rivers of IIOJK,” he added.

APHC spokesman said the only demand of the people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir is the withdrawal of the Indian forces from their motherland and the holding of a free and fair plebiscite under the supervision of the United Nations.

The APHC emphasized that it was in the interest of India to shun its stubborn and rigid approach and give the Kashmiris their birth right to self-determination, which would prove beneficial not only for betterment of New Delhi itself but also for the whole south Asian region.

Moreover, National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah has vehemently criticized the Indian government’s claims of neutralizing militancy in Indian illegally Jammu and Kashmir, pointing to the April 22 Pahalgam attack as evidence of glaring security failures.

According to Kashmir Media Service, talking to reporters after a meeting of the party workers in Kokernag area of south Kashmir district, Abdullah highlighted how the attackers infiltrated the heavily guarded Baisaran meadow—a tourist hot spot—despite the presence of thousands of forces personnel, drones, and surveillance systems. “New Delhi said militancy was over, so where did these attackers come from?” Abdullah asked.

Meanwhile, Farooq Abdullah has said that his party would move the Indian Supreme Court against the inordinate delay in the restoration of statehood to Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. “After the elections, people wanted their issues to be resolved immediately, but delay in statehood restoration is stopping us.”

BJP-led Modi government “has many demands like they want National Conference MLA Altaf Kaloo to become a minister, but how is this possible till statehood is restored”.

“We are waiting, but if they (New Delhi) take a long time then we will have no option but to go to the Supreme Court,” said Abdullah.–NNI