SRINAGAR (Indian Occupied Kashmir): In occupied Kashmir, Dukhtaran-e-Millat Jammu and Kashmir has denounced the illegal detention of its Chairperson Aasiya Andrabi and her close associate by the authorities, reports KMS.

The Acting Chairperson of Dukhtaran-e-Millat, Riffat Fatima, in a statement issued in Srinagar, termed the illegal detention of Aasiya as the frustration of the puppet administration. “The authorities are trying to suppress the ongoing freedom movement through use of brute force,” she added.

She said that the administration was subjecting Aasiya Andrabi to political vendetta and had been detaining her husband for the last seventeen years. Riffat condemned the illegal detention of DeM Chairperson during Ramadan in past three years.

The spokesman of Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir, in a statement issued in Srinagar, condemned the unlawful arrest of Aasiya. He urged India to settle the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the aspirations of Kashmiri people by implementing the relevant United Nations resolutions.

Meanwhile, Hurriyet leader and the Vice Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Muslim League Masarrat Alam Butt, has reiterated to continue the freedom struggle till its logical conclusion, despite all odds.

Masarrat Alam Butt in a media interview condemned the imposition of curfew and restrictions by the occupation authorities in the territory. “Indian troops have unleashed a reign of terror in the occupied territory. They open fire straight at unarmed and innocent Kashmiris,” he added.

He said that New Delhi wanted to suppress the ongoing freedom movement through use of brute force. “India can not deter Kashmiris’ resolve to get freedom from its illegal occupation through use of brute force,” he maintained.

He said that as many as sixty-four innocent Kashmiri youth, most of them students and children, had been martyred by the occupation forces so far during the current agitation. He maintained that the Sikh community was fully safe in the occupied Valley.

And, the spokesman of Press Guild of Kashmir in a statement flayed Indian police for torturing a scribe, working with a local daily. He warned of worst consequences if the police did not stop subjecting the reporters and photojournalists to torture. Illegal detention of Aasiya Andrabi condemned ‘Pakistan Times’ Jammu & Kashmir Desk