Muzaffarabad: Pasban-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir staged protest procession on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visit to disputed territory here on Monday.
According to details, a large number of people gathered at old secretariat Muzaffarabad while chanting Anti-India and pro freedom slogans.
Protesters waved black flags and burnt tires on the road and carried banners that read “Modi is the most disliked person in Kashmir”.
Speaking on the occasion, Chairman Pasban-e-Hurriyat Uzair Ahmed Ghazali has said that Narendra Modi is trying to make occupied Jammu and Kashmir a military base.
Adding that Kashmiri people reject the visit of a usurper on their land.
He maintained that thousands of acres of farmers’ lands are being destroyed due to the railway line, roads and tunnels being built for military purposes in Occupied Kashmir.
“Modi has turned occupied Jammu and Kashmir into a prison under the surveillance of more than 1 million soldiers and has badly affected civil liberties”, he lamented.
Uzair said that Narendra Modi government has taken away jobs and employment opportunities from the Kashmiri youth.
“Due to the brutal actions of Narendra Modi, poverty and unemployment are increasing rapidly in Kashmir”, he stated.
He said that Kashmiri citizens demanding freedom, rights and justice which are being usurped by the Modi government.
Vice Chairman Usman Ali Hashim said that Narendra Modi is the killer of thousands of Kashmiri youths and such visits are just to deceive the world conscience that everything is normal in Kashmir.
He said that Modi government took away the identity of Kashmiris on August 5, 2019.
“It was the Modi government that abolished the statehood of Kashmir”, he added.
Other speakers said that Modi government is attacking Islamic identity in Kashmir.
Protests are being also held in different districts of Azad Kashmir, Mirpur, Dhadial, Kotli, Bagh and Neelam on the call of Pasban-e-Hurriyat.
