Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) on Friday said that the amalgam chief, Muhammad Yasin Malik was shifted to Srinagar’s central jail on remand up to Nov 16.Malik was arrested by police on Thursday and was shifted to central jail Srinagar.The JKLF spokesman in a statement issued to KNS said that immediately after his arrest, JKLF chairman was taken to police control room hospital for necessary medical checkup and after wards late last night was shifted to central jail Srinagar on remand up to 16th November.Notably, Malik who was arrested by police on 8th July 2016 and was released on 29th October 2016 after remained incarcerated for 115 days.Meanwhile, terming re-arresting of Malik and other resistance leaders as worst kind of dictatorship under the disguise of ‘so-called’ democracy, JKLF vice chairman Mushtaq Ahmad Ajmal said that curbing peaceful voice of people by arrests, nocturnal raids, curfew and restrictions cannot be termed but as worst dictatorship and choking space on peaceful activities actually amounts to denying democracy and freedom of speech.
While condemning the house arrest of veteran resistance leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Muhammad Umer Farooq and disallowing Friday prayers at Jamia Masjid Srinagar, Ajmal said that the tall claims of democracy and battle of ideas have been exposed now as from last four months even Friday prayers at Jamia Masjid have been banned by ‘so-called democratic rulers’.He said that blanket ban on all peaceful political activities, arresting thousands of youth, resistance activists and students, continuing wave of destruction by Indian forces and police throughout Kashmir valley, nocturnal raids, beatings and humiliating common people are glaring example of duplicitous politics of pro-India politicians and parties in Jammu Kashmir.
JKLF vice chairman said that various JKLF leaders and activists including ailing JKLF vice chairman advocate Bashir Ahmad Butt, vice chairman Showkat Ahmad Bakhshi, zonal president Noor Muhammad Kalwal (Kotbalwal jail), ailing zonal senior vice president Muhammad Yasin Butt, zonal organizer Bashir Ahmad Kashmiri, District president Ganderbal Bashir Ahmad Rather (Boya) , JKLF activists Fayaz Ahmad Mir of Ganderbal , Shabir Ahmad Ganaie of Kakapora Pulwama, Mushtaq Ahmad Mir of Kupwara, Assadullah Sheikh of Kulgam, Molvi Reyaz of Sopore, Muhammad Ishaaq Malik Kokernagh, Sahib Khan Trehgam, Ghulam Mohi Ud Din Kunanposhpora and thousands of other innocents , youth and students are languishing in jails and police stations. He said that the spree of arrests, nocturnal raids and terrorizing peaceful political activists, leaders and their families is most undemocratic and act of unilateral violence and putting thousands of people behind bars and widespread use of black laws to suppress people’s voices has exposed the hollowness of the tall claims of democracy and battle of ideas. (KNS)