Islamabad, July 19 (KMS): The APHC-AJK in a session, today, described 19th July as a historic day because on this day in 1947 the people of Jammu and Kashmir had decided that the state be acceded to Pakistan.

According to Kashmir Media Service, the session was presided over by Convenor, Mehmood Ahmed Saghar and the participants said that Indian state terrorism had failed to wipe out the Kashmiris’ commitment to Pakistan.

They said that India had forcibly occupied the Jammu and Kashmir and over 800,000 Indian troops deployed in the occupied territory couldn’t suppress the ongoing indigenous liberation movement. They expressed serious concerns over the gross human rights violations by Indian troops in the territory.

The participants of the session strongly condemned the illegal detention of Hurriyet leaders and activists including Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Mian Abdul Qayoom and Zafar Akbar Butt. They urged the international human rights organisations to put pressure on India to stop cruelties on the innocent people of the occupied territory.

They also described the killings of innocent civilians and use of brute force on peaceful demonstrators by Indian troop as the worst form of Indian state terrorism. They said that Kashmiris had been fighting for securing their right to self-determination for the last several decades and they would take their liberation struggle to its logical conclusion at all costs.

In the meantime, APHC also issued a statement form Srinagar, persuing international human rights organisations, to press India to stop human rights violations in Occupied Kashmir. The APHC spokesman in a statement issued in Srinagar said, “In view of the present crisis in Kashmir, the international human rights organizations should intervene and impress upon India to stop the killings.”

The spokesman pointed out that the puppet administration was implicating the APHC leaders and activists in false cases to suppress the ongoing agitation in the occupied territory. He strongly denounced the booking of APHC leader, Zafar Akbar Butt and Hurriyet activists including Muzaffar Ahmad Yatoo, Bilal Ahmad Beig, Urfat Ahmad Beig, Muhammad Maqbool Sofi, Mushtaq Ahmad Shah and Muhammad Umar under the black law, Public Safety Act. He said, most of them have been shifted to jails in Jammu

The situation in Occupied Kashmir is worsening day after day. Another youth, today, got killed after bieng hit by a police bus in Batamaloo area in Srinagar. Hundreds of people, mostly youth, took to the streets, after the police bus hit a private car resulting in injuries to three people. The injured were rushed to Soura hospital where one of them identified as Nadeem died. The eyewitnesses told mediamen that the police deliberately hit the car.

Demanding arrest of the police bus driver, the demonstrators blocked the main road, leading to General bus stand.

Police immediately swung into action and resorted to baton charge to disperse them. Later, the police burst teargas shells to chase away the demonstrators.

Meanwhile, clashes were going on between protesters and the police at Sakadafar in Srinagar.

On the other hand, the residents of Chatabal and Laweypora told newsmen that the personnel of Indian Central Reserve Police Force barged into the houses, thrashed the inmates and ransacked the household goods. People staged demonstrations against the CRPF action.

Indian police have arrested the APHC leader, Hakeem Abdul Rasheed and lodged him at Lal Bazar police station in Srinagar. Indian troops arrested two civilians Ghulam Mohiddin Bhat and Muhammad Shafi Baht from Garoora area of Bandipore.

Another youth was injured when Indian troops opened fire in Sopore town to disperse demonstrators protesting against the killing of a student by Indian police in Baramulla.

According to Kashmir Media Service, despite restrictions imposed by the occupation authorities, protests broke out at several localities in the town. Indian troops and police first baton charged and lobbed tear smoke shells to disperse the protesters and later opened fire on them, resulting in bullet injuries to a youth, Firdous Ahmad.

People took out a procession in Pampore from Namblabal to Kadlabal. They raised anti-India and pro-freedom slogans on the occasion. Protests were also staged in Pulwama and Baramulla areas.

On the other hand, two Indian troops of 321-field regiment were killed and four injured when their vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a gorge at Tangdhar in Kupwara while a trooper drowned when he slipped into a river at Bani in Kathua. Another army man, travelling to Jammu from Delhi, fell down from a train and died instantly.

Meanwhile, despite assurance by the occupation authorities that the mediamen with valid passes would move hassle-free during curfew, the paramilitary CRPF troops deployed in Srinagar and elsewhere refused to entertain the passes. A number of media-persons complained that the troopers harassed them on Sunday at several places and did not allow their free movement even when they had valid curfew passes