- Two Kashmiri youth martyred by Indian troops in Pulwama
SRINAGAR, March 9: In occupied Kashmir, the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Syed Ali Geelani has said that the lives of over 15 million people of Kashmir have been made a hell due to the lingering Kashmir dispute.
Syed Ali Geelani was reacting to the statement of British Foreign Secretary, Phillip Hammond. Hammond while addressing a press conference in Islamabad, yesterday, advised Pakistan against making Kashmir dispute a precondition for resumption of Pak-India talks.
Syed Ali Geelani in a statement issued in Srinagar, Wednesday, said that Kashmir was the only core issue between Pakistan and India, and sidelining this issue had neither yielded anything positive in the past, nor would it do so in future. He said that Britain had a key role in creation of the Kashmir dispute.
The APHC General Secretary, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, in a statement issued in Srinagar also strongly reacted to the assertion of the UK Foreign Secretary terming it as unrealistic.
In New Delhi, a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Nivedita Menon, while addressing a students’ gathering at the university supported the plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir. She said that whole world believed that India was illegally occupying the territory.
Meanwhile, Indian troops in their fresh act of state terrorism martyred two Kashmiri youth in Pulwama district, Wednesday.
