Muzaffarabad: A protest demonstration was organized by Pasban-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir against the second phase of forced elections in Occupied Kashmir under Indian military siege.
According to details, large number of citizens participated in the protest against forced elections in Occupied Kashmir.
Kashmiri protesters waved black flags and chanted slogans against the fake election.
People marched on the main Highway towards the United Nations Mission Office to seek the international organizations attention.
Speaking on the occasion, Chairman Pasban-e-Hurriyat Uzair Ahmed Ghazali has said that elections held at gunpoint and conspiracies of the Indian government are nothing but a fraud.
He said that any kind of election in Occupied Kashmir cannot be a substitute for freedom and the right to self-determination.
“Narendra Modi is dictating fake elections by locking political opponents in jails in Occupied Kashmir”, he lamented.
He maintained that India wants arbitrary results by holding forced elections under the guise of brutal use of black laws in the occupied state of Jammu and Kashmir.
“During the fake elections, the real representatives of the Kashmiri people are facing atrocities including killings, imprisonment and long detentions.
He stated that the All-Party Hurriyat Conference is the real representative of the Kashmiri people at the political front and trying to resolve the Kashmir dispute according to the UN resolutions.
Vice Chairman Pasban-e-Hurriyat Usman Ali Hashim said that India should show courage and fulfill the promises of independent referendum in Jammu and Kashmir under the supervision of international observers.
Mushtaq-ul-Islam said that the people of Occupied Jammu and Kashmir want freedom from India and they don’t accept such elections.
He added that elections cannot be free and fair in the presence of 1 million occupying troops in Occupied Kashmir.
Speakers said that Modi government cannot demoralize Kashmiris by arresting All-Party Hurriyat Conference leaders or banning pro-independence parties.
Raja Muhammad Arif Khan, Shaukat Javed Mir, Javed Ahmed Mughal and others were also present on the occasion.
