APHC renews call for UN action on Kashmir

The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) on Monday commemorated the martyrs of July 13, 1931, with a rally in Muzaffarabad, renewing its call for the implementation of United Nations resolutions on Kashmir and urging the world body to address what it described as human rights violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

The rally, led by APHC Convener Ghulam Muhammad Safi, Secretary Kashmir Cause Syed Shahid Mohiuddin and Azad Jammu and Kashmir government spokesperson Shaukat Javed Mir, culminated at the office of the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP), where participants submitted a memorandum calling on the UN to implement its resolutions on the Kashmir dispute.

The participants marched to the UNMOGIP office and submitted a memorandum urging the United Nations to take notice of what they described as human rights violations in IIOJK.

The memorandum called on the UN to implement its resolutions on the Kashmir dispute and ensure an end to the alleged rights violations in the region.

Addressing the rally, APHC Secretary General Pervez Ahmad Shah, Sardar Sajid Mahmood, Chaudhry Shaheen Iqbal, Sheikh Yaqoob, Manzoor Shah, Zahid Ashraf, Syed Gulshan Ahmad, Majid Mir, Mushtaq-ul-Islam and others paid tribute to the martyrs of 1931.

They said the sacrifices of the martyrs laid the foundation of the Kashmir freedom movement and inspired generations of Kashmiris to continue their struggle.