Kashmir hanging: Guru’s sentence is ‘judicial murder’
Mushahid denounces India’s claim of sharing border with Afghanistan.
A file photo of Muslim League-Q leader Mushahid Hussain Syed during press conference in Quetta. PHOTO: PPI
ISLAMABAD:
Senator Mushahid Hussain, the head of the Senate Committee on Defence, called the hanging of an innocent Kashmiri, Afzal Guru by India on Sunday a “judicial murder.”
The Senator denounced the act as a “gross travesty of justice,” as he recalled the judgment passed by Supreme Court of India that said that the death sentence was aimed at satisfying the “collective conscience of the society.”
While talking to media, he said that even prominent figures of India, like author and political activist Arundhati Roy, have decried as inhuman the hanging of Guru without letting him meet his family.
He expressed support for the hunger strike called by Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik and said that people of Pakistan share the resentment against the injustice.
Additionally, Mushahid Hussain, who is also the secretary general of Pakistan Muslim League-Q, censured Indian Finance Minister Chidambaram for making claims in his speech to a think tank on February 6 that India shares a 106 kilometer border with Afghanistan.
He rebuked the statement as irredentist because India does not share any physical contact with Afghanistan. He added that such utterances clearly manifest the expansionist motives of the neighouring country’s establishment.
He claimed that such issues may vitiate the atmosphere between the two countries.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 11th, 2013.
Senator Mushahid Hussain, the head of the Senate Committee on Defence, called the hanging of an innocent Kashmiri, Afzal Guru by India on Sunday a “judicial murder.”
The Senator denounced the act as a “gross travesty of justice,” as he recalled the judgment passed by Supreme Court of India that said that the death sentence was aimed at satisfying the “collective conscience of the society.”
While talking to media, he said that even prominent figures of India, like author and political activist Arundhati Roy, have decried as inhuman the hanging of Guru without letting him meet his family.
He expressed support for the hunger strike called by Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik and said that people of Pakistan share the resentment against the injustice.
Additionally, Mushahid Hussain, who is also the secretary general of Pakistan Muslim League-Q, censured Indian Finance Minister Chidambaram for making claims in his speech to a think tank on February 6 that India shares a 106 kilometer border with Afghanistan.
He rebuked the statement as irredentist because India does not share any physical contact with Afghanistan. He added that such utterances clearly manifest the expansionist motives of the neighouring country’s establishment.
He claimed that such issues may vitiate the atmosphere between the two countries.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 11th, 2013.