Chairman Jammu Kashmir liberation front (JKLF) Muhammad Yasin Malik who was arrested by police day before was shifted to Srinagar central jail.According to a statement issued to KNS, after the brutal use of force police arrested JKLF chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik and he was immediately shifted to police station Shergadi. He was kept without water food and medicine and no one was allowed to keep him. At evening he was shifted to central jail Srinagar without taking him to any court or presenting him before any magistrate. Ironically he has been arrested for a 29 year old case registered against him during Muslim united front (MUF) Jalsa in 1987.JKLF vice chairman advocate Bashir Ahmad Butt while strongly condemning the illegal detention and jail shifting of chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik and also the reign of terror unleashed by police in Maisuma and adjacent areas, has said that the way police has declared a war against Yasin Malik, his family and whole Maisuma locality shows the level of frustration of rulers and their police.
Butt said that declaring a war on a locality and unleashing reign of terror on the residents is yet another proof of police hooliganism and this shows that so-called rulers and their authorities are hell bent upon implementing anti–Kashmir and anti-Muslim agenda of their Nagpori masters. Butt said that by arresting political rivals, unleashing terror on common people and other methods of suppression are proof of cowardice and anti-Kashmiri approach of these pro-Indian politicians’ and their political parties who can dip to any low for the lust of power and authority. Butt said that Mehbooba Mufti and his party have been using MUF election rigging card for their politics from a long time. Recently in so-called Kashmir assembly this lady racked up the issue of Indian rigging in 1987 elections and said that if MUF had been given a chance to win conditions in Jammu Kashmir would have been normal. But today this lady has used the same election and a case registered against same MUF to jail JKLF chairman.
Butt said that Yasin Malik has been booked under a 29 year old concocted case in which along with Yasin Malik, Syed Ali shah Geelani, late Qazi Nisar and late Ghulam Muhammad Shah are also co–accused. He said that Mehbooba Jee by using same election that she has been declaring rigged to jail Yasin Malik has exposed her hypocritical politics and this has yet again proved the fact that all these pro-India politicians and their parties are deployed only to safeguard Indian interests and that they can go to any extent for grabbing power. Butt said that if so-called rulers and their authorities have any shame left, they should instead of caging resistance leaders and activists, find some courage and compete with them on political level.While condemning the ongoing police onslaught against people of Maisuma from last many days, Butt said that even after arresting Yasin Malik police has not shun its violent approach against Maisuma people.
He appealed to human rights organizations and civil society to take serious note of this police oppression and save common people from their wrath. Butt sahib also condemned the continues detention of JKLF vice chairman Showkat Ahmad Bakhshi who is lodged in Bemina police Chowki from last many days. Meanwhile JKLF spokesman has expressed heartfelt grief and sorrow over the demise of great Muslim sportsman, social, religious and humanitarian leader legendry Muhammad Ali Kellay who breathed his last day before. While paying homage to the great legend, JKLF spokesman prayed for his heavenly abode. (KNS)