Kashmiris denied int’l aid to keep them away from ‘right to self-determination : Shabir Ahmad Shah

Pays tributes to Bijbehara, other martyrs

5 Dariya News (Yawar Shafi)

Srinagar 20-Oct-2014

Terming the blocking of aid from neighboring nation Pakistan, Muslim world and other countries for flood-hit Kashmir, by India, as aggressive step, Hurriyat Conference Jammu Kashmir leader and chairman Democratic Freedom Party Shabir Ahmad Shah said that by such decision, Modi government wants to keep the people of Kashmir away from demanding the right of self-determination. “By such decision, Modi government showed its anti-Muslim face, but our nation is such a brave one that it will overcome both the flood crisis and Indian oppression, In Sha Allah (God willing),” Shah said, while addressing people at Kanihama, after distributing relief material among the people.

Paying glorious tributes top Bijbehara martyrs who were massacred on Oct 22, 1993, Shah said we will never forget those 51 martyrs and those 150 people who were injured on that fateful day. “The crime of these innocent people was that they were offering fateha to the martyrs,” he said.On the occasion, Shah also paid tributes to martyrs of Gaw Kadal, Handwara, Kupwara, Sopore, Hazratbal and others and said the nation will not let anyone play with the sacred blood of these martyrs but will strive to take their mission to its logical conclusion.

Appealing people to stay away from elections, HCJK leader said such exercise is a futile one. “The people of Kashmir want peaceful solution to the issue which cannot be solved by the change of regimes,” Shah said and added that the resolution of Kashmir issue is imperative for the establishment of peace in the subcontinent.