Malik condemns arrest of Aasiya Andrabi

Srinagar/April,27: Terming the ‘new phase of terror’ against people of Kashmir as ‘provocative’, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik Thursday said that “after meeting Indian rulers and then chairing a meeting of command council, a false notion was given through media that reconciliatory measures will be taken and that forces have been told to restraint but actually the policy derived was to increase efforts to crush people through police and military might.”
Malik in a statement issued here on Saturday said “This is why that soon after the meetings many villages in Budgam including Hayatpora, Galwanpora, Nasrullahpora were raided by army and many young boys including two teenagers Manzoor Ahmad Mir and Rafiq Ahmad were arrested. Similarly in Islamabad dozens of youth have been arrested during nocturnal raids yesterday whereas in Pulwama, Kulgam, Srinagar this oppression is also going on.”
JKLF chairman said that police and forces are using ‘third degree torture’ against arrested students and ‘a new ugly phenomenon of terrorizing’ the parents of school and college going youth especially those belonging to Sher-I-Khas is going on.
He said that “parents are being called to police stations and humiliated and terrorized by police and authorities.”
“Politics of deceit and suppression will never succeed in breaking the will of people of Jammu Kashmir who will continue their struggle till the achievement of freedom,” Malik said.
While condemning the nocturnal raid and arrest of Dukktaran I Millat chief Syeda Asiya Andrabi and her associate Fehmeeda Sofi, JKLF chairman said that “raiding an ailing leader that too after breaking through the walls and fencing of her house is nothing but police terrorism of worst kind.”
He said the rulers and their police have lost every shame and have crossed every limit of indignity and morality.
Condemning the police assault on incarcerated Moulana Sarjan Barkati who was attacked by Shupian police after presenting him before court, JKLF chairman said that a person who is in jail from last many months is not being spared even in judicial custody.
“The rulers and their police should know that every tyranny has a limit and every oppressor is bound to face the law of retribution and will have to answer for their crimes against humanity,” Malik added.