Incarcerated Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik, who was re-arrested by police On December 16, has been once again shifted to SK Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), a spokesman of the party said in a statement.“Yesterday police brought Yasin sahib to Soura medical institute for necessary medical check-up and doctors after examining him asked police to admit him in the hospital. After admitting him in the hospital authorities have deployed large contingent of police and forces at Soura medical institute and all those who want to see the ailing leader and being frisked and grilled before entering into the ward,” he said.
Meanwhile JKLF vice chairman advocate Bashir Ahmad Butt has strongly condemned the ongoing “police crackdown” on Maisuma residents for boycotting elections and termed this as worst kind of “state terrorism.”
“Police resorted to oppressive tactics of pre-1988 when it used to arrest fathers and mothers in place of their son’s. Father of a political activist Ashiq Hussain has been arrested and his whereabouts are yet not known to his family. Police even locked his shop at Maisuma. Also Police in nocturnal raids is harassing common citizens and situation has become volatile in the whole area. Many Maisuma boys including Ishfaq Hussain, Faisal Aslam and Aadil Ahmad who were arrested before elections and tortured by police still remain in police station Maisuma,” he alleged.
“Police used same tactics in 1987 also when Shaheed sheikh Abdul Hamid mother was arrested in place of her son. And later on police officials along with pro India politicians tortured those arrested in police stations. If same tactics of penalizing fathers and mothers in place of their son’s is done by someone else, authorities use it as a propaganda against those, dub this as terrorism and articles are written and news is flashed against that but today when across the valley police is arresting fathers in place of their sons no one seems to bother and raise his voice against this state terrorism,” he wondered. Advocate said that same police ‘brutalities’ in 1987 pushed a generation to armed struggle and today “when police is pushing non violent peaceful political workers to the wall, it is actually promoting violence.”
The JKLF also expressed its heartfelt grief and sorrow over the sad demise of mother of senior Front activist Ghulam Jeelani Rather of Kangan. A Front delegation comprising of zonal president Noor Mohammad Kalwal, zonal general secretary Sheikh Abdul Rashid and district president Ganderbal Bashir Ahmad Rather (Boya) visited the bereaved family and expressed solidarity with them. JKLF delegation while paying rich tributes to the deceased prayed for her heavenly abode.