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ISLAMABAD: Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front in Indian Administered Kashmir will organise a candlelight march on Saturday, the World Human Rights Day, to protest the human rights violations in the territory.
The decision was taken at the party meeting held with its Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik in the chair, the Front spokesman said in a statement issued in Srinagar, KMS reported.
“The march will be held on Saturday after Maghrib prayers from Madina Chowk, Gaw Kadal,” the spokesman said.
Addressing the meeting, Yasin Malik said that the worst human rights abuses were being committed in Kashmir.
“Jammu and Kashmir is the place where civilians are killed and their honour, dignity and freedom ravaged. Due to the enforcement of black laws, there is virtually a military rule in the territory where people have the highest sense of insecurity,” he said.
The spokesman has said the JKLF has been holding protest demonstrations every year on the occasion of World Human Rights Day to highlight the human rights violations being committed by the Indian armed forces.
“There are various black laws including Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), Public Safety Act (PSA) and Disturbed Area Act (DAA) in Kashmir to suppress the ongoing peaceful freedom struggle,” Malik said, Urging the international human rights organisations and human rights champions of India to take cognisance of the rights' violations and initiate steps to exert pressure on New Delhi to put an immediate halt to the unilateral violence in the territory.
Meanwhile, the JKLF in a statement expressed profound grief and sorrow over the demise of Azim-ud-Din Qureshi, father of noted pro-freedom leader Shaheed Altaf Ahmad Qureshi and Shaheed Tabassum Qureshi and Muhammad Ashraf Qureshi.
